Science Fair Project Resource Guide

• 1. Getting Started
• 2. Choosing a Topic
• 3. Completing the Project
• 4. Displaying Your Project

About Science Fairs

Before you get started, you probably need to know more about what a science fair or project is all about. Of course, your teacher can tell you more about the science fair at your school, but the sites listed below can explain what science fairs are all about.

If you're wondering what you get out of doing a science fair project, scroll to the bottom of our page and look at our "Why should I do a science fair project?" section.

A Student’s Guide to Keeping the Science in Your Science Project
http://www.ag.ncat.edu/extension/programs/dte/science.pdf

Carefully explains how to do a science project and why they are important.

Cool-Science-Projects
http://www.cool-science-projects.com/

Superb advice for every aspect of a science fair project: topic ideas, research, data recording, display making, and more! Everything is presented in a step-by-step guide. There are also project ideas for all grade levels.

Discovery Channel School: Science Fair Central
http://school.discovery.com/sciencefaircentral/scifairstudio...

"A science project is like a mystery in which you are the detective searching for answers." Janice VanCleave helps you turn from science gumshoe to super sleuth and explains each step, from research to presentation.

Dr. Shawn's 10 Easy Steps to Science Fair Success
http://www.scifair.org/articles/steps.shtml

Dr. Shawn lists ten steps to a good science fair project, including a detailed outline for planning your experiment. Notice how "planning" and "preparing" are the most detailed steps?

Science Fair Primer
http://users.rcn.com/tedrowan/primer.html

Learn here how to do many important steps in your project, from developing a purpose and designing an experiment, to analyzing your data and writing a research report.

Science Fair Project Guidelines
http://www.fathermag.com/904/science/guidelines.shtml

Having judged science fairs for many years, Kennedy Space Center scientist Elizabeth Stryjewski knows the common mistakes students make in their science investigations.