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Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Understanding How Food Becomes Rancid
In this cooking and food science fair project, the student will determine how light and air can oxidize fat in potato chips and cause the chips to go rancid. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an...
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Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Save Those Spoiling Strawberries!
In this food science fair project, the student will determine if thermotherapy can inhibit strawberries from becoming moldy and decaying. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract, objective,...
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Science Fairs: Ideas for Elementary Projects: Grades 4 6
This Science Fairs website is a resource for a wide variety of science fair starter ideas. Use an idea from here and build your own project.
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Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Popping an Ollie: Skateboards and Physics
In this science fair project, investigate the effect of speed on the distance and height of the skateboard trick the "ollie". The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract, objective, and...
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Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Growing Green: How to Extract Energy From Grass
In this energy science fair project, the student will experiment with three types of grasses and determine which variety yields the highest amount of biomass. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an...
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Science Buddies: Project Ideas: How Primary Colors Combine to Make New Colors
In this science fair project, paint color pie slices onto a wheel and spin the wheel on an electric drill. See how colors add together to make new colors. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an...
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Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Using Plants to Determine Direction
Don't get lost in the woods. In this plant biology science fair project, students will investigate whether the location of moss growth on trees is a good way to determine cardinal direction. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up...
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Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Don't Get Burned: Uv Index Throughout the Day
Sun tanning has a bad rap right now. Use a personal ultraviolet monitor to measure the UV index to prevent getting a sunburn. With this science fair project you will create a chart showing the UV ray measurement at different times of the...
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Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Electronics and Solar Energy With a Robot Bug
In this science fair project, use the "frightened grasshopper" solar-powered toy to explore how solar energy is converted into kinetic energy. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract,...
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Discovery Education: Science Fair Central: Practice Investigation Virtual Labs
Two virtual labs offer practice for creating your own or science project: "How Does Your Garden Grow" and "Critters!" Learn how investigations are conducted from the first step to the finished product.
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Science Struck: 5 Creative Solar System Project Ideas Kids Can Try
Detailed descriptions of five solar system science projects for students.
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Science Struck: 4 Complex Rube Goldberg Ideas
An interesting approach to science projects where students are challenged to create complex machines that do very simple jobs, e.g., opening a door. Offers four ideas for projects.
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Science Buddies: The Swimming Secrets of Duck Feet
By comparing the feet of different water birds you can discover how they propel the birds through the water. This Science Buddies project show you how to modify swim fins to simulate ducks' feet, greebes' feet, and the feet of...
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Science Buddies: Let's Go Fly a Kite!
By making a simple sled kite from the template provided and using the suggestions in the Science Buddies project, you can experiment with variables that test different aspects of flight. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up...
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Science Buddies: M&m Math
By using a simple bag of M&Ms, you can conduct an experiment in statistics to determine the frequency of colors in the package. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract, objective, and...
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Science Buddies: Parachutes: Does Size Matter?
Experiment with different sizes of parachutes to find out if size matters when slowing the descent of the parachute. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract, objective, and introduction,...
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Science Buddies: Suck It Up: Capillary Action of Water in Plants
We know that plants, and even bouquets of cut flowers need water to survive, but we often do not think about how water moves within a plant. In this science project, you will use colored water and carnations to discover how water travels...
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Science Buddies: Give It a Lift With a Lever
Simple machines allow us to do difficult tasks like lifting objects heavier than our body weight. In this science project you'll build a tabletop lever and measure how much effort it takes to lift an object by altering the length of the...
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Science Buddies: Slime Chemistry
Have you ever wondered how fun toys like Silly Putty, Gak, and Slime are made? These products are so much fun because of the properties of polymers, which make them delightfully bouncy, stretchy, sticky, moldable, breakable, hard, soft,...
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Science Buddies: Levitating Magnets: Floating Isn't Just for Magicians
If you ever seen a magician float an object in the air, you might think that levitation is just a magic trick, but the truth is you can use an invisible physical force to levitate a magnet. Try this simple, week-long science project to...
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Science Buddies: Make Your Own Markers
Do you ever wonder how markers are made? Where do all of those colors come from? Many of the colorful dyes we use come from plant pigments. Pigments are what make the world around us so colorful. How do chemists turn those natural plant...
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Science Buddies: Craters and Meteorites
Have you ever heard that the moon is made of cheese? Even though the craters on the surface of the moon resemble holes in Swiss cheese, we know that this common myth is not true. Find out how craters are formed and why they are different...
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Science Buddies: Do Preferences Bias Our Choices?
In this science project you will test whether color preference will affect repetitive tasks that require fine motor coordination, like picking up small objects very quickly. Find out if your color preferences will bias these repetitive...
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Science Buddies: Moving Water With the Archimedes Screw Pump
Amaze your friends and family by moving water with just a few turns of your wrist, this is known as an Archimedes screw. In this science project, you will build a very simple Archimedes screw, to transfer water from a low-lying location...
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