100 Award-Winning Science Fair ProjectsScience is at work everywhere - in the kitchen, up in the sky down in the ground, and all around us in plants, animals, machines, even the mind. Here are 100 ways to show how it works and come out tops at school project time. - Stir up chemical magic - Turn a copper pot green with oxidation - Prove that computers emit radio waves - Show off medieval ballistics - - Create virtual 3-D with a polarised lens - Simulate rock abrasion - - Chemists & Cooks - Earth & Sky - Mechanics & Motion - Sparks & Waves - - Light & Sound - Eye & Mind - Plants & Animals - Stars & Planets - * Serious learning about real science is hidden in this away-from-school entertainment for 8-12 year olds. Impress your science teacher! |
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... record • Electric lamp without shade • White poster board • White paper • Compass • Protractor • Felt - tip marking ... your observations . 0 O Phonograph Record with Stroboscopic Disc Stroboscopic Strip Procedure 1. Cut a strip of paper ...
... record • Electric lamp without shade • White poster board • White paper • Compass • Protractor • Felt - tip marking ... your observations . 0 O Phonograph Record with Stroboscopic Disc Stroboscopic Strip Procedure 1. Cut a strip of paper ...
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... record , and switch on the phonograph to a speed of 78 rpm . Record your observations . Result As the turntable accelerates , the lines on both the disc and strip blur . However , when the turntable speed stabilizes at 78 rpm , the ...
... record , and switch on the phonograph to a speed of 78 rpm . Record your observations . Result As the turntable accelerates , the lines on both the disc and strip blur . However , when the turntable speed stabilizes at 78 rpm , the ...
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... your monitor , so you may have to try this several times , even darkening the room to heighten the effect if ... Record your observations . Result Both motions broke the movement of the pencil into little " snapshots " of the pencil's ...
... your monitor , so you may have to try this several times , even darkening the room to heighten the effect if ... Record your observations . Result Both motions broke the movement of the pencil into little " snapshots " of the pencil's ...
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allow angle Attach ball birefringent bottle bucket cardboard carefully cellophane circle clay color compass contour line Craft knife create cubic dial diameter drawing Drill dune Earth Earth-to-Sun Distance edge electrical electrophorus Explanation Felt-tip marking pen foam board glass glue hanger hole inches inferior planets Leyden jar light liquid magnet Masking tape Measure Mercator projection metal meter methyl salicylate microphyle mirrors molds Moon move nail Need needle paper clip pencil pendulum Phenakistoscope philodendron phonograph photographs piece Place plant plaster plastic Pluto plywood polarized poster board potato Procedure protractor Quakemaster Record your observations refractive index Repeat step Result rotate rubber bands ruler salt sand scientists screen screw seeds side soap soil spoon square star star clock station stereoscopic string strip Stroboscopic Styrofoam sugar surface teaspoon test tube tracing waves wooden dowel yardstick