Science Fair Project Resource Guide

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

Graphs

If your project involves counting or measuring anything — and science usually does — then your results will have a lot of numbers. No matter what kind of numbers you have, it’s easier to make sense of them if you use graphs to present your data.

Create a Graph
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx

If you don’t have access to a spreadsheet program, don’t worry! At this site, you can enter your data, choose a graph type, and print it out.

Handling Data - Representing Data
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/maths/handling_data...

Learn how to show data with charts and graphs. (From the Children's BBC Bitesize page for KS3.)

Interactivate: Pie Chart
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/piechart/

Get practice at creating and changing a pie chart and other charts. (From the Computational Science Education Reference Desk (CSERD), a Pathways project of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL).)

Using Data and Statistics
http://www.mathleague.com/help/data/data.htm

Learn about charts and graphs. (From the Math League Press.)