Science Fair Teacher Resources

A five part set of standards (20 pts ea)of judging science fair prjects, with three to five criteria in each standard. These come from Falmouth High School.

Four science projects in which students learn how solar energy works and how thermal energy is transferred and utlized in a solar air heater, a solar water heater, a solar hot dog cooker, and a solar cell.

Tossing a Frisbee with your friends is a great way to have fun in the sun. As you practice your throws and become more accurate, you're learning about the aerodynamics of Frisbee flight intuitively. You're learning the body mechanics...

Build a device to accomplish a fun task. Accept a design trade-off challenge of using only a set amount of simple materials, as if you were stuck on a desert island, to make your device work.

Provides a model to follow when creating the structure of a science fair project.

Presents five ideas for science projects that require simple materials and can be easily done in a short time.

Ideas for Grade 8 science projects organized into the categories of environment, physics, chemistry, biology, animals, and astronomy.

Your science fair project may do one of three things: test an idea (hypothesis), answer a question, and/or show how nature works. Learn the steps involved in a project and get some great topic ideas.

Gives brief descriptions of three experiments and a list of other ideas for possible science fair projects for Grade 9.

Descriptions of five experiments and a list of other ideas for possible science fair projects for Grade 7.

A list of 50 ideas for science fair projects for Grade 7.

A list of 22 ideas for science fair projects for Grade 6, many with brief descriptions.

A long list of ideas for science fair projects for middle school students.

A long list of ideas for science fair projects for high school students.

Descriptions of five experiments and a list of other ideas for possible science fair projects for Grade 5.

Discover what happens to the circumference of a balloon when it is placed in dry ice, kept at room temperature, and when it is warmed by a hairdryer.

Want to learn how to forecast ocean weather? This c.o.o.l. project lists each of the steps in the scientific process, and has you work through each in this earth science based project.

Nice brief description of this wind speed device and the directions to make your own.

In this lesson, students are challenged to think about external features that animals and plants have that humans have copied. Students then apply their engineering skills to design a jacket. In addition, this activity introduces the...

This resource from Science Fairs is a wonderful resource for a wide variety of science fair starter ideas. Use an idea from here and build your own project.

Lists many science fair project ideas in the area of physics.

At this site from the Center for Distance Learning and Innovation there's a monstrous listing of possible science fair projects. You can choose from primary (grades 1-4), elementary (grades 4-6), intermediate (grades 7-9), or senior...

Online resource if you want to do a math project for your science fair. French available by going to the Homepage.

A concise page that offers a number of bug-related science fair project suggestions.