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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... paper clips by linking them together . Make sure that your chain is long enough so that the bottom paper clip lies flat against the bottom of the glass . 5. Push the top paper clip into the teeth of a plastic comb so that part of the clip ...
... paper clips by linking them together . Make sure that your chain is long enough so that the bottom paper clip lies flat against the bottom of the glass . 5. Push the top paper clip into the teeth of a plastic comb so that part of the clip ...
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... paper clip at the same time . 5. Carefully bring the other stripped end of the wire close to the protruding paper clip and watch what happens . Result A blue spark jumps from the wire to the paper clip . This spark will be many times ...
... paper clip at the same time . 5. Carefully bring the other stripped end of the wire close to the protruding paper clip and watch what happens . Result A blue spark jumps from the wire to the paper clip . This spark will be many times ...
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... paper • Paper clip • Rubber cement You can measure how quickly a seedling grows to become an adult plant with this simple project . Keep in mind that this proj- ect , like any other that requires seed germi- nation , should be begun ...
... paper • Paper clip • Rubber cement You can measure how quickly a seedling grows to become an adult plant with this simple project . Keep in mind that this proj- ect , like any other that requires seed germi- nation , should be begun ...
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