Science Fair Project Resource Guide

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

Outline for the Project

Some of the best places to go for a complete outline of a science project. Spend some time exploring these sites, as they contain a lot of different resources that will help you get organized.

Discoveryschool.com's Science Fair Central
http://school.discovery.com/sciencefaircentral/scifairstudio...

Plenty of help for students, teachers, and parents: the "Soup to Nuts Handbook," project ideas, and lists of books and websites you can use to research your topic.

Neuroscience for Kids
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/fair.html

This site describes each part of a successful project and includes links to other Science Fair help sites.

Science Buddies
http://www.sciencebuddies.org/mentoring/project_scientific_m...

Very detailed help on how to do research, experiment, analyze data, reach conclusions, create your display, and survive the judging. Many of these topics include a self-quiz that helps you fix the weak spots in your project before the judges see it.

Science Fair Projects page by Peter Macinnis
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~macinnis/scifun/projects.htm

Offers a detailed step-by-step guide to doing a science fair project, a long with many project ideas and Resources to help with science fairs and projects.

7 Steps to a Successful Project
http://investigate.conservation.org/xp/IB/sciencefairs/7step...

Follow these 7 steps to complete a science project, from devising a research question to creating the presentation. You may not be doing a project in biodiversity, but the outline will be useful no matter what kind of topic you’ve chosen.