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! |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 10
Page 86
... Poster board • 2 liter soft - drink bottle • 30 - inch ( 75 - cm ) brightly colored insulated ( plastic - coated ) wire • Compass • Ruler • Hole punch Scissors • Tape twisted wire connects loops excess wire taped to poster- board ...
... Poster board • 2 liter soft - drink bottle • 30 - inch ( 75 - cm ) brightly colored insulated ( plastic - coated ) wire • Compass • Ruler • Hole punch Scissors • Tape twisted wire connects loops excess wire taped to poster- board ...
Page 188
... poster board • Black matte paint • Small paintbrush ( for black matte paint ) • White paint • Large paintbrush ( for white paint ) • Ping - Pong ball • Wooden skewer stick • Small Styrofoam block • Hooded lamp with low - watt bulb ...
... poster board • Black matte paint • Small paintbrush ( for black matte paint ) • White paint • Large paintbrush ( for white paint ) • Ping - Pong ball • Wooden skewer stick • Small Styrofoam block • Hooded lamp with low - watt bulb ...
Page 202
... poster board so that it supports the other piece of board in an almost vertical position . 5. Switch on the lamp so that it throws a circular shadow on the poster board . If the shadow is too big or fuzzy , move the lamp so that you get ...
... poster board so that it supports the other piece of board in an almost vertical position . 5. Switch on the lamp so that it throws a circular shadow on the poster board . If the shadow is too big or fuzzy , move the lamp so that you get ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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