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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Materials Science Project Ideas

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A list of projects ideas through which students test materials for various qualities, such as strength, flammability, density, and resistance to corrosion.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Science Fair Central: Choose a Project Type Inventions

For Students 3rd - 8th
Great ideas to get students started on an invention for a science fair. A list of ways students will design and engineer a solution to a problem will help students begin choosing a topic. Check out the list of general science topics,...
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Kids Science Projects and Experiments: Pulse and Heartbeat

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn by experimenting with science. Project about the heartbeat and pulse.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Kids Science Projects and Experiments: Sense of Smell

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn by experimenting with science. Project about the sense of smell.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Kids Science Projects and Experiments: Seasons Angle of the Sun

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn by experimenting with science. Project showing how the angle of the sun affects our temperature.
Website
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Science Fair Central: Choose a Project Type Investigation

For Students 3rd - 8th
Discover how to approach a scientific question, and learn eight steps students will perform in doing so. Offers suggestions on how to ask a testable question as well as several examples.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Science Fair Central Choose a Project Idea

For Students 3rd - 8th
This helpful page from Discovery Education provides science fair ideas in Life Science, Earth Science, and Biology. Testable questions to get you started are listed beneath each domain.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Stuff to Do: Buried Bones

For Students 3rd - 8th
A how-to science project with instructions to make a complete dinosaur bone dig site burying chicken bones in plaster of Paris. Click on the starred words to learn more about the topic.
eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 3.19 Human Genome

For Students 9th - 10th
See how the human genome project sequenced all 3 billion bases that make up our DNA and identified within this code more than 20,000 human genes.
Unit Plan
Science Made Simple

Science Made Simple: Static Electricity

For Students 3rd - 8th
This website has three different projects from which to choose on the topic of static electricity. Scroll up to learn more about static electricity.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Colored Water Convection

For Students 3rd - 8th
This PBS site allows users to learn more about water convection as they discover how to demonstrate the way convection currents form. A fun science project!
Handout
NASA

Nasa Space Place: Do a Science Fair Project!

For Students 3rd - 8th
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.
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Science Struck

Science Struck: 22 Interesting Science Fair Projects for 6th Grade

For Students 6th
A list of 22 ideas for science fair projects for Grade 6, many with brief descriptions.
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Science Struck

Science Struck: 8th Grade Science Fair Project Ideas

For Students 8th
A list of ideas for science fair projects for Grade 8.
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Science Fun for Everyone

Science Fun: Massive Expanding Soap

For Students 1st - 5th
Science activity shows what happens when a bar of soap is heated. Links to video of the experiment.
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Science Made Simple

Science Made Simple: How Do Animals Spend the Winter?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Use this site to learn how animals use hibernation, adaptation, and migration to overcome the difficulties of winter.
Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Computational Science and Engineering I

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures from a course reviewing linear algebra with applications to networks, structures, and estimation. Webpage includes thirty-six lectures from a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lectures...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What's Your Guess? (Probability)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson will allow the student to experience a series of informal comparisons, The student will explore the chances of various outcomes of an event. The student will use vocabulary associated with probability.This lesson plan was...
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Science Fun for Everyone

Science Fun: Storm in a Glass

For Students 2nd - 5th
Watch Scientist Joe make a model of a rainstorm in a glass. Links to video of the experiment.
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Science Fun for Everyone

Science Fun: Ice Fishing

For Students 2nd - 6th
Watch Scientist Joe conduct the ice fishing experiment in this video presentation.
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Science Fun for Everyone

Science Fun: How to Make a Volcano

For Students 2nd - 5th
Watch Scientist Joe make a volcano using common household products in this video presentation.
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Science Fun for Everyone

Science Fun: Marbled Gift Wrap

For Students 1st - 5th
Use shaving cream to design pretty paper in this hands-on experiment. Links to video of the experiment.
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Science Fun for Everyone

Science Fun: Sizzlin' Snowballs

For Students 1st - 5th
Cook up a sizzling snowball with this hands-on experiment. Links to video of the experiment.
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Science Fun for Everyone

Science Fun: Lava Lamp

For Students 1st - 5th
Watch Scientist Joe as he makes the lava lamp experiment.

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