Your Guide to Science Fair Topics, Ideas, Experiments, and Winning Displays
Fluid Dynamics? Yes, Paddling a Raft is a hands-on fluid dynamics project. The kids in the photo are paddling their their homemade raft, which was a science project about fluid dynamics. For more specifics about their project, see Fluid Dynamics. Student: Science Fair Idea! I recently received a question about fluid dynamics. Note that I [...]
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Notable Features in The World Almanac® for Kids 2012 Include: SCIENCE: Environment: A brand-new section on “Living Green,” plus added information on biomes, pollutants, and climate change aids understanding of key environmental issues. Note: What is the difference between weather and climate? Animals: Explore animals on a scientific level, from endangered species to creatures [...]
What is Camouflage? How is it Helpful? Camouflage is how animals blend in with their environment. Why does an Arctic fox grow brown fur in the spring and white fur in the winter? Animals use camouflage to blend in with their environment. Living things can use camouflage to help them hide from predators or [...]
Get thousands of facts right at your fingertips with this updated resource. After 140-plus years, The World Almanac® still ranks as the best-selling American reference book, with 82 million copies sold. This year’s highlights include: Education—All-new information on student bullying, charter schools, and how American students measure up internationally. Also highlights details on higher education [...]
How to Grow a Sweet Potato in Water Purpose: To use experimental research to collect information about hydroponics, the growing of a plant in water. Question: How long does it take for a sweet potato to form roots, stems, and leaves? 1. Select a firm sweet potato. Choose one with buds if possible. 2. Insert [...]
How to Challenge Kids With Varying Abilities Notice in the following video that the teachers has kids grouped by abilities. This is not evident until the end of the video when she explains that some groups are expected to build more complicated burglar alarms. During the initial introduction to circuits, groups could be random with [...]
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Who Developed the Periodic Table of Elements? The periodic table of elements was designed independently about the same time by two different scientists. Credit is given to Dmitri Mendeleev, a professor of chemistry in St. Petersburg, Russia because he published the first version of the table in 1869. Julius Lothar Meyer (1830-1895), a chemistry professor [...]
What is Matter? Matter is anything that has mass and takes up space, such as water. The photo shows water first falling and filling and collecting at the bottom of the waterfall. When the collected water increases in volume, the water spills over a rock boundary. Water takes up space. Volume is the amount of [...]
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