Science Fair Project Resource Guide

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

Conduct an Experiment

If your project involves an experiment, this section will help keep you on track, and if you’re doing something else, some of the sites below will help you with keeping a journal and organizing your information.

Chemistry.About.com: Doing Your Science Project
http://chemistry.about.com/library/weekly/aa121002c.htm

Useful tips (with explanations) for conducting your experiment, such as write down everything, don’t discard data, and repeat your experiment.

Collect Your Data - Step 4 - 7 Steps to a Successful Project
http://investigate.conservation.org/xp/IB/sciencefairs/7step...

Even if you’re not investigating biodiversity, check out what they say here about keeping a journal and making up data sheets. They’re essential to almost any kind of project that involves investigation.

ScI-Journal: Hints and Tips
http://www.sci-journal.org/index.php?link=help/planning.php&...

A series of webpages showing you how to plan your project, obtain data, analyze your results, and present your results.

Science Buddies: Variable & Hypothesis
http://www.sciencebuddies.org/mentoring/project_variables.sh...

Defines the essential features of a scientific experiment: independent, dependent, and controlled variables, and how to create a hypothesis.