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Science Buddies: How Fast Is Your Computer?
Computer technology continues to develop at a rapid pace. A new home computer is noticeably faster than a machine from five years ago, and dramatically faster than a machine from ten years ago. Exactly how much faster? This project will...
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Science Buddies: Write a Java Script Binary/decimal/hexadecimal Converter
This is a challenging first computer science project. You'll learn the basics of how digital devices can represent numbers using only 0's and 1's, and you'll write a JavaScript program to convert numbers between binary, decimal and...
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Science Buddies: It's Raining, It's Pouring: Chemical Analysis of Rainwater
Here is an interesting project that could be approached from several different scientific angles: Environmental Science, Weather & Atmosphere, Chemistry, or Plant Biology. You can probably think of your own variations to emphasize...
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Science Buddies: Shaking for Butter
In this food science fair project, the student will determine the best conditions for making butter.
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Science Fair Primer: Physics Project Ideas
Lists many science fair project ideas in the area of physics.
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Science Struck: Last Minute Science Fair Projects
Presents five ideas for science projects that require simple materials and can be easily done in a short time.
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Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Snacks From a Z
Here is a monumental list of ideas for science fair projects and experiments, organized alphabetically. Every one of them is a link to a full page, with pictures, of information about the idea. This site is a goldmine.
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Science Buddies: The 'Ultimate' Science Fair Project: Flying Disk Aerodynamics
Tossing a Frisbee with your friends is a great way to have fun in the sun. As you practice your throws and become more accurate, you're learning about the aerodynamics of Frisbee flight intuitively. You're learning the body mechanics...
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Canadian Mathematical Society: Math Projects for Science Fairs
Online resource if you want to do a math project for your science fair. French available by going to the Homepage.
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Science Buddies: The Wright Stuff: Using Kites to Study Aerodynamics
If you are interested in aerodynamics, wait for a windy day and go fly a kite. This Science Buddies project gives you many ideas to investigate as experiment with shape, size, and ways to fly the kite. The Science Buddies project ideas...
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Science Buddies: Are Your Eyes Playing Tricks on You?
Yogi Berra said "You can observe a lot by just watching." In this human biology science fair project, you will observe how your eyes perceive color by watching afterimages. Afterimages are what you see after staring at an object for...
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Science Buddies: Blast Into the Past Identify T. Rex's Closest Living Relative
Believe it or not, scientists were recently able to recover tissue and partial sequence information for protein molecules from a 68-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex fossil. In this genomics science fair project, you will use the T....
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Science Buddies: Bat Detector: Listen to the Secret Sounds of Bats
Sometimes bats can "whoosh" right by you, and not be seen. In this science fair project, you will be able to detect flying bats by listening in on the ultrasonic signals they produce to locate objects in their environment. The bat...
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Science Buddies: Find Center of Milky Way Galaxy Using Globular Star Clusters
The Milky Way is the edgewise view of our home galaxy, a disk made up of billions of stars. The Sun resides on one of the spiral arms of the disk, 30,000 light-years from the thick hub of the galaxy. The actual center, with a black hole...
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Science Buddies: The Power of Heat Is Right Under Your Feet!
You might know that we are able to get free energy from the Sun, the wind, and water, but we can also get free energy from Earth itself. This source of energy is called geothermal energy and it is all about taking advantage of the heat...
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Cdli: Science Fairs Homepage
At this site from the Center for Distance Learning and Innovation there's a monstrous listing of possible science fair projects. You can choose from primary (grades 1-4), elementary (grades 4-6), intermediate (grades 7-9), or senior...
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Science Buddies: Learn How to Disinfect Contaminated Water
Clean water is not a given everywhere in the world. In this science fair project, students will investigate whether sunlight could be used to disinfect contaminated water. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently...
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Science Buddies: An Uplifting Project: The Buoyancy of Balloons
In this science fair project, measure the "lift" of a set of balloons and track how it changes over time as the helium escapes from the balloons. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract,...
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Science Buddies: Natural Antimicrobial Agents
This abstract asks you to discover what sources you can test for antimicrobial action by culturing bacteria in the presence of an extract from a source you hypothesize to have antimicrobial properties. Antimicrobial properties have been...
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Science Struck: Topic Ideas for Middle School Science Fair Projects
A long list of ideas for science fair projects for middle school students.
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Science Struck: 8th Grade Creative Science Fair Project Ideas
Ideas for Grade 8 science projects organized into the categories of environment, physics, chemistry, biology, animals, and astronomy.
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Science Struck: 8th Grade Science Fair Project Ideas
A list of ideas for science fair projects for Grade 8.
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Science Struck: Technical Science Fair Projects for 9th Grade
Gives brief descriptions of three experiments and a list of other ideas for possible science fair projects for Grade 9.
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Science Struck: Interesting 7th Grade Science Fair Projects
Descriptions of five experiments and a list of other ideas for possible science fair projects for Grade 7.