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The Ultimate Science Fair Project Guide – From Start to Finish
When our daughter entered her first science fair, we kept seeing references to the Internet Public Library Science Fair Project Resource Guide . However, the IPL2 permanently closed… taking the guide with it. Bummer ! After now participating in over a half-dozen elementary school science fairs (including a first-place finish!), we created our own guide to help other students go from start to finish in their next science fair project. If this is your first science fair, have fun! If you’ve done it before, we hope this is your best one! Let’s science!
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How to Use the STEMium Science Fair Project Ultimate Guide?
If you are just starting off and this is your first science fair, here’s how to get started:
- Start with the STEMium Science Fair Project Roadmap . This is an infographic that “maps” out the process from start to finish and shows all the steps in a visual format.
- Getting Started – Why Do a Science Fair Project . Besides walking through some reasons to do a project, we also share links to examples of national science fair competitions, what’s involved and examples of winning science fair experiments . *Note: this is where you’ll get excited!!
- The Scientific Method – What is It and What’s Involved . One of the great things about a science fair project is that it introduces students to an essential process/concept known as the scientific method. This is simply the way in which we develop a hypothesis to test.
- Start the Process – Find an Idea . You now have a general idea of what to expect at the science fair, examples of winning ideas, and know about the scientific method. You’re ready to get started on your own project. How do you come up with an idea for a science fair project? We have resources on how to use a Google tool , as well as some other strategies for finding an idea.
- Experiment and Build the Project . Time to roll up those sleeves and put on your lab coat.
- Other Resources for the Fair. Along the way, you will likely encounter challenges or get stuck. Don’t give up – it’s all part of the scientific process. Check out our STEMium Resources page for more links and resources from the web. We also have additional experiments like the germiest spot in school , or the alka-seltzer rocket project that our own kids used.
Getting Started – Why Do a Science Fair Project
For many students, participating in the science fair might be a choice that was made FOR you. In other words, something you must do as part of a class. Maybe your parents are making you do it. For others, maybe it sounded like a cool idea. Something fun to try. Whatever your motivation, there are a lot of great reasons to do a science fair project.
- Challenge yourself
- Learn more about science
- Explore cool technology
- Make something to help the world! (seriously!)
- Win prizes (and sometimes even money)
- Do something you can be proud of!
Many students will participate in a science fair at their school. But there are also national competitions that include 1000s of participants. There are also engineering fairs, maker events, and hackathons. It’s an exciting time to be a scientist!! The list below gives examples of national events.
- Regeneron Science Talent Search
- Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair
- Google Science Fair
- Conrad Challenge
- Microsoft Imagine Cup
- JSHS Program
- Exploravision
What’s the Scientific Method?
Before we jump into your project, it’s important to introduce a key concept: The Scientific Method . The scientific method is the framework scientists use to answer their questions and test their hypothesis. The figure below illustrates the steps you’ll take to get to the end, but it starts with asking a question (you’ve already finished the first step!).
After we find a problem/idea to tackle, and dig into some background research, we create a guess on a potential solution. This is known as our hypothesis.
Example of a Hypothesis
My brother can hold his breath underwater longer than I can (“our problem”) –> how can I hold my breath longer? (“our question”) –> if I drink soda with caffeine before I hold my breath, I will be able to stay underwater longer (“our solution”). Our hypothesis is that using caffeine before we go underwater will increase the time we hold our breath. We’re not sure if that is a correct solution or not at this stage – just taking a guess.
Once we have a hypothesis, we design an experiment to TEST our hypothesis. First, we will change variables/conditions one at a time while keeping everything else the same, so we can compare the outcomes.
Experimental Design Example
Using our underwater example, maybe we will test different drinks and count how long I can hold my breath. Maybe we can also see if someone else can serve as a “control” – someone who holds their breath but does not drink caffeine. For the underwater experiment, we can time in seconds how long I hold my breath before I have a drink and then time it again after I have my caffeine drink. I can also time how long I stay underwater when I have a drink without caffeine.
Then, once we finish with our experiment, we analyze our data and develop a conclusion.
- How many seconds did I stay underwater in the different situations?
- Which outcome is greater? Did caffeine help me hold my breath longer?
Finally, (and most important), we present our findings. Imagine putting together a poster board with a chart showing the number of seconds I stayed underwater in the different conditions.
Hopefully you have a better sense of the scientific method. If you are completing a science fair project, sticking with these steps is super important. Just in case there is any lingering confusion, here are some resources for learning more about the scientific method:
- Science Buddies – Steps of the Scientific Method
- Ducksters – Learn About the Scientific Method
- Biology4kids – Scientific Method
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences – Scientific Method
What Science Fair Project Should I Do?
And science is no different.
Just know that if you can get through the idea part, the rest of the science fair is relatively smooth sailing. Remember to keep an open mind and a positive outlook . Each year 100s of 1000s of kids, teenagers and college students come up with new projects and ideas to test. You’ve got this!
What Makes a Great Science Fair Project? Start with a Problem To Solve
As we discuss below, good science experiments attempt to answer a QUESTION. Why is the sky blue? Why does my dog bark at her reflection? First, we will step through some ways to find TESTABLE QUESTIONS. These questions that you create will be what you work on for your science fair project. Pick something fun, something interesting and something that you are excited about. Not sure what that looks like? Step through some of the tips below for help.
Use the Google Science Fair Idea Generator
Are you surprised Google made a tool for science fair projects?? Our post called the low-stress way to find a science fair project gives a more in-depth overview about how to use it. It’s a great first stop if you’re early in the brainstorming process.
Answer your own questions
- What type of music makes you run faster?
- Can boys hold their breath underwater longer than girls?
- How can I be sure the sandwich I bought is gluten free?
- If we plant 100 trees in our neighborhood, will the air be cleaner?
Still stuck? Get inspiration from other science fair projects
Check out the Getting Started section and look at some of the winning science project ideas, our STEMium experiments and our Resource page. We’ve presented a ton of potential idea starters for you – take time to run through some of these, but our suggestion is to give yourself a deadline to pick an idea . Going through the lists could take you longer than you think, and in many cases sometimes it’s just better to pick something and go for it! The next section will take you through how to create testable questions for your project.
Starting Your Project: Find A Testable Question
The best experiments start with a question. Taking that a step further, the questions you useyou’re your science fair project should be ones that are TESTABLE. That means something you can measure. Let’s look at an example. Let’s say I’m super excited about baking. OH YEA!! I love baking. Specifically, baking cakes. In fact, I love baking cakes so much that I want to do a science project related to cakes. We’ve got two questions on cakes that we created. Which question below could be most useful for a science fair project:
1) Can eating cake before a test improve your score?
2) Why isn’t carrot cake more popular than chocolate cake?
The second question isn’t necessarily a bad question to pick. You could survey people and perhaps tackle the question that way. However, chances are you will get a lot of different answers and it will probably take a lot of surveys to start to pick up a trend.
Although, the first question might be a little easier. How would you test this? Maybe you pick one type of cake and one test that you give people. If you can get five people to take the test after eating cake and five people take the test with no cake, you can compare the test results. There might be other variables beyond cake that you could test (example: age, sex, education). But you can see that the first question is probably a little easier to test. The first question is also a little easier to come up with a hypothesis.
At this point, you’ve got an idea. That was the hard part! Now it’s time to think a little more about that idea and focus it into a scientific question that is testable and that you can create a hypothesis around .
What makes a question “testable”?
Testable questions are ones that can be measured and should focus on what you will change. In our first cake question, we would be changing whether or not people eat cake before a test. If we are giving them all the same test and in the same conditions, you could compare how they do on the test with and without cake. As you are creating your testable question, think about what you WILL CHANGE (cake) and what you are expecting to be different (test scores). Cause and effect. Check out this reference on testable questions for more details.
Outline Your Science Project – What Steps Should I Take?
Do Background Research / Create Hypothesis
Science experiments typically start with a question (example: Which cleaning solution eliminates more germs?). The questions might come up because of a problem. For example, maybe you’re an engineer and you are trying to design a new line of cars that can drive at least 50 mph faster. Your problem is that the car isn’t fast enough. After looking at what other people have tried to do to get the car to go faster, and thinking about what you can change, you try to find a solution or an answer. When we talk about the scientific method, the proposed answer is referred to as the HYPOTHESIS.
- Science Buddies
- National Geographic
The information you gather to answer these research questions can be used in your report or in your board. This will go in the BACKGROUND section. For resources that you find useful, make sure you note the web address where you found it, and save in a Google Doc for later.
Additional Research Tips
For your own science fair project, there will likely be rules that will already be set by the judges/teachers/school. Make sure you get familiar with the rules FOR YOUR FAIR and what needs to be completed to participate . Typically, you will have to do some research into your project, you’ll complete experiments, analyze data, make conclusions and then present the work in a written report and on a poster board. Make a checklist of all these “to do” items. Key things to address:
- Question being answered – this is your testable question
- Hypothesis – what did you come up with and why
- Experimental design – how are you going to test your hypothesis
- Conclusions – why did you reach these and what are some alternative explanations
- What would you do next? Answering a testable question usually leads to asking more questions and judges will be interested in how you think about next steps.
Need more help? Check out these additional resources on how to tackle a science fair project:
- Developing a Science Fair Project – Wiley
- Successful Science Fair Projects – Washington University
- Science Fair Planning Guide – Chattahoochee Elementary
Experiment – Time to Test That Hypothesis
Way to go! You’ve found a problem and identified a testable question. You’ve done background research and even created a hypothesis. It’s time to put it all together now and start designing your experiment. Two experiments we have outlined in detail – germiest spot in school and alka-seltzer rockets – help show how to set up experiments to test variable changes.
The folks at ThoughtCo have a great overview on the different types of variables – independent, dependent and controls. You need to identify which ones are relevant to your own experiment and then test to see how changes in the independent variable impacts the dependent variable . Sounds hard? Nope. Let’s look at an example. Let’s say our hypothesis is that cold weather will let you flip a coin with more heads than tails. The independent variable is the temperature. The dependent variable is the number of heads or tails that show up. Our experiment could involve flipping a coin fifty times in different temperatures (outside, in a sauna, in room temperature) and seeing how many heads/tails we get.
One other important point – write down all the steps you take and the materials you use!! This will be in your final report and project board. Example – for our coin flipping experiment, we will have a coin (or more than one), a thermometer to keep track of the temperature in our environment. Take pictures of the flipping too!
Analyze Results – Make Conclusions
Analyzing means adding up our results and putting them into pretty pictures. Use charts and graphs whenever you can. In our last coin flipping example, you’d want to include bar charts of the number of heads and tails at different temperatures. If you’re doing some other type of experiment, take pictures during the different steps to document everything.
This is the fun part…. Now we get to see if we answered our question! Did the weather affect the coin flipping? Did eating cake help us do better on our test?? So exciting! Look through what the data tells you and try to answer your question. Your hypothesis may / may not be correct. It’s not important either way – the most important part is what you learned and the process. Check out these references for more help:
- How to make a chart or graph in Google Sheets
- How to make a chart in Excel
Presentation Time – Set Up Your Board, Practice Your Talk
Personally, the presentation is my favorite part! First, you get to show off all your hard work and look back at everything you did! Additionally, science fair rules should outline the specific sections that need to be in the report, and in the poster board – so, be like Emmett from Lego Movie and read the instructions. Here’s a loose overview of what you should include:
- Title – what is it called.
- Introduction / background – here’s why you’re doing it and helping the judges learn a bit about your project.
- Materials/Methods – what you used and the steps in your experiment. This is so someone else could repeat your experiment.
- Results – what was the outcome? How many heads/tails? Include pictures and graphs.
- Conclusions – was your hypothesis correct? What else would you like to investigate now? What went right and what went wrong?
- References – if you did research, where did you get your information from? What are your sources?
The written report will be very similar to the final presentation board. The board that you’ll prepare is usually a three-panel board set up like the picture shown below.
To prepare for the presentation, you and your partner should be able to talk about the following:
- why you did the experiment
- the hypothesis that was tested
- the data results
- the conclusions.
It’s totally OK to not know an answer. Just remember this is the fun part!
And that’s it! YOU DID IT!!
Science fair projects have been great opportunities for our kids to not only learn more about science, but to also be challenged and push themselves. Independent projects like these are usually a great learning opportunity. Has your child completed a science fair project that they are proud of? Include a pic in the comments – we love to share science!! Please also check out our STEMium Resources page for more science fair project tips and tricks .
STEMomma is a mother & former scientist/educator. She loves to find creative, fun ways to help engage kids in the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and math). When she’s not busy in meetings or carpooling kids, she loves spending time with the family and dreaming up new experiments or games they can try in the backyard.
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How to Write a Research Plan for a Science Project
How to Make a Rough Draft on Science Projects
A research plan outlines your proposed science fair project and must be approved by a science fair committee before experiments are done. For this reason, it contains no experimental data but instead offers the questions you plan to address, the significance of questions, background information and experimental design. Since a committee must approve your plan, provide a proposal that represents your ideas as important, doable and unique in its approach.
Make a list of "what, when, where and how" questions that relate to your topic. Be specific. Start with all the possible questions, then eliminate those that are too vague or those you cannot answer, given your time and resources. Science Buddies provides an example of this.
Describe the significance of your questions by considering how answering them might be helpful to others in the future. Think big but not unreasonable. Answering questions about bacteria growth, for example, has implications on disease prevention. Research each implication and offer statistics or solid facts on how knowing more would be important. Keep track of your information for your bibliography.
Build a foundation for your questions with background information. Determine what is already known, who figured it out and how these finding have already affected the world. Make sure your questions are not already answered by the work of other people. If they are, find holes in the background information and find new questions that address them. Ask anyone with experience on your topic for help if you have difficult finding background information. Keep track of where you get all information for your bibliography.
Describe a detailed step-by-step method for answering your questions. Individual experiments may be necessary for individual questions. List the necessary materials and equipment. Include exact amounts and explicitly state data collection methods.
Anticipate the results you might get through the method you outlined. Consider any problems you may encounter in your experiments and how you will address them. Think critically about your planned experiments. Make sure they address the questions you stated. If not, redo either your method or your question list.
Formalize a research plan. Make it easy to read and include the following sections: questions, significance, background and materials and methods. Possible problems may be its own section or part of the materials and methods section. Follow school guidelines regarding accompanying paperwork and the order of your sections. The bibliography has its own section and is always last. Check for good grammar and spelling.
- Always cite whenever you use information from the Web or from books or people. Citations from reliable resources gives credibility to your project.
- Network at your local university. Students and faculty doing research on a related topic can be a valuable resource.
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Okay, this is the hardest part of the whole project…picking your topic. But here are some ideas to get you started. Even if you don’t like any, they may inspire you to come up with one of your own. Remember, check all project ideas with your teacher and parents, and don’t do any project that would hurt or scare people or animals. Good luck!
- Does music affect on animal behavior?
- Does the color of food or drinks affect whether or not we like them?
- Where are the most germs in your school? ( CLICK for more info. )
- Does music have an affect on plant growth?
- Which kind of food do dogs (or any animal) prefer best?
- Which paper towel brand is the strongest?
- What is the best way to keep an ice cube from melting?
- What level of salt works best to hatch brine shrimp?
- Can the food we eat affect our heart rate?
- How effective are child-proof containers and locks.
- Can background noise levels affect how well we concentrate?
- Does acid rain affect the growth of aquatic plants?
- What is the best way to keep cut flowers fresh the longest?
- Does the color of light used on plants affect how well they grow?
- What plant fertilizer works best?
- Does the color of a room affect human behavior?
- Do athletic students have better lung capacity?
- What brand of battery lasts the longest?
- Does the type of potting soil used in planting affect how fast the plant grows?
- What type of food allow mold to grow the fastest?
- Does having worms in soil help plants grow faster?
- Can plants grow in pots if they are sideways or upside down?
- Does the color of hair affect how much static electricity it can carry? (test with balloons)
- How much weight can the surface tension of water hold?
- Can some people really read someone else’s thoughts?
- Which soda decays fallen out teeth the most?
- What light brightness makes plants grow the best?
- Does the color of birdseed affect how much birds will eat it?
- Do natural or chemical fertilizers work best?
- Can mice learn? (you can pick any animal)
- Can people tell artificial smells from real ones?
- What brands of bubble gum produce the biggest bubbles?
- Does age affect human reaction times?
- What is the effect of salt on the boiling temperature of water?
- Does shoe design really affect an athlete’s jumping height?
- What type of grass seed grows the fastest?
- Can animals see in the dark better than humans?
Didn’t see one you like? Don’t worry…look over them again and see if they give you an idea for your own project that will work for you. Remember, find something that interests you, and have fun with it.
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Market Research Plan
In 1970, food and drink sales of the US restaurant industry reached only 42.8 billion US dollars, which is way behind the 745.61 billion US dollar sales of 2015. According to the statistic posted in statista, this number should grow in the next few years. In fact, the website reported that from the 2015’s over 14 million employees of the restaurant industry, it should increase up to 16 million in 2026. However, as a result of this growth, there will be possibilities that the market will be saturated and more competitive. Thus, as a business owner, you will need to gear up and gain an edge to stand out in the market. By conducting market research for a restaurant, you can prepare your business to become more competitive and strategic, which will ensure its success.
What Do You Need to Know About Market Research?
Market research is an essential component of a business plan which aims to get information concerning the target market of a business. Through this study, you will determine the chances of a proposed service or new product to survive in the market. As part of market research, you need to develop a research plan.
What is Market Research Plan?
In general, market research plan is the foundation of a detailed research proposal . This document contains the initial thoughts about the research project that you are planning to take place logically and concisely, which is a crucial content of market research. Simply put, by obtaining a market research plan, you can thoroughly examine how your product or service will proceed in a specific domain.
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Conducting market research will give significant benefits to your business. However, to materialize it, you may need to ensure that you build your market research plan correctly. Below is a list of the market research plan samples and templates that you can use as a guide.
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How to Develop a Strong Market Research Project Plan?
Now that you know how a marketing research plan should look, make a secure market research plan by following the steps below:
1. Set Goals and Objectives
What do you want to attain with your research? Your goals and objectives should answer that question. You can start by forming a general marketing goal . You will, then, make it more specific. This goal will help you focus and direct the entire research process to make the best data-driven marketing decisions. To determine the most critical issue, you may conduct qualitative research . This research methodology ensures that you address the issue that really requires an urgent solution.
2. Determine Your Target Respondents and Appropriate Distribution Method
In this step, you will identify the right people to get the information that you need to create the right decision for your marketing goals. After that, list down the best possible ways for the data gathering. For example, your target market is veterans. You may want to use more appropriate channels such as direct mails, phone, or personal interview. Once you have chosen the most appropriate data collection method, create an outline that will allow your team to get the most relevant information from your target market or audience.
4. Brainstorm for the Right Questions
In deciding the right questions for your marketing research, it is crucial to keep your study goals in mind. Only include items that are relevant to the study to come up with the best business decisions. Asking the wrong questions may lead to inadequate conclusions. Data-driven solutions mostly obtained through quantitative research questions. You can still use qualitative research questions but make it minimal to avoid making the respondents bored and held up, which can lead to survey abandonment. As much as possible, make your survey short and answerable in less than 5 minutes. Otherwise, you may want to find an alternative option in getting the desired data. Also, it would help if you will consider other factors in building the right questions. Refrain from asking sensitive, personal, and offensive questions. To do it, research your target audience.
5. Analyze the Data
Start this step by cleaning your survey data. To do it, filter out any low-quality responses. These items can affect your decision-making negatively. Basing on the set standards, remove the outlier responses. To do that, determine if the respondents answered in the desired format. If not, especially if it has become a trend, disqualify the question or conduct another data-gathering or investigation for this question. In this process, you will also find out if the answers of the participants are contributing to your research goals. At the end of this stage, you will, then, share your findings. To effectively show your results, you can use data visualization methods such as charts, graphs, and infographics.
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Do you face barriers to your research such as study subject recruitment, data access and management, regulatory compliance challenges, or resource shortfalls? At Translational Science Day, you will learn how researchers at the University have leveraged advances in translational science and UR Clinical & Translational Science Institute (UR CTSI) support to find success in their research projects.
You will connect with fellow researchers, students, and staff in interactive sessions, including a “Shark Tank”-style competition to propose innovative solutions to common research challenges, learn about past and current examples of translational science success across the research spectrum, and get what you need from UR CTSI service providers at the Research Support Fair.
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Science Fair Project Background Research Plan
Choose a title that identifies the content of your project. The title can include the nature of the study, the species used, and the place of field studies. It should reflect the principal objective of the investigation. Hypothesis: Based on your reading and information research, organize everything you have discovered, and then make an ...
To make a background research plan — a roadmap of the research questions you need to answer — follow these steps: 1) Identify the keywords in the question for your science fair project. Brainstorm additional keywords and concepts. 2) Use a table with the "question words" (why, how, who, what, when, where) to generate research questions from ...
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1. Get a bound notebook to use as a logbook and number the pages. 2. Select a topic. 3. Narrow the topic to a specific problem, stated as a research question, with a single variable. 4. Conduct a literature review of the topic and problem and write a draft of the research report. 5.
When our daughter entered her first science fair, we kept seeing references to the Internet Public Library Science Fair Project Resource Guide. However, the IPL2 permanently closed… taking the guide with it. Bummer! After now participating in over a half-dozen elementary school science fairs (including a first-place finish!), we created our ...
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Step 6. Formalize a research plan. Make it easy to read and include the following sections: questions, significance, background and materials and methods. Possible problems may be its own section or part of the materials and methods section. Follow school guidelines regarding accompanying paperwork and the order of your sections.
Background research is necessary so that you know how to design and understand your experiment. To make a background research plan—a roadmap of the research questions you need to answer—follow these steps: 1. Identify the keywords in the question for your science fair project. Brainstorm additional keywords and concepts.
Parts of the generic engineering project are listed below with descriptions to the students in the boxes. Students may provide a detailed research plan by describing their specific project in response to each box below. Engineering Goal:PROBLEM BEING ADDRESSED: All engineering projects solve a problem or fill a need.
Writing a Research Paper for Your Science Fair Project
up your Project Report and complete the Poster.References List a minimum of three references (e.g. science journal articles, books, internet sites) that you used to get information. out your topic using the "Harvard" Referencing method. Remember to: Read Eskom Expo's guidelines on Project Appro.
science with engaging, well-researched projects that clearly answer a specific hypothesis. All students want their science fair projects to succeed, and by following a few simple tips and ideas, they can be off to a promising start. Choose a Good Topic Choosing the right topic is the first step toward a successful science fair project,
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The Research Plan provides a detailed description of the rationale for your project, your hypothesis/goal, procedure or engineering design and expected outcomes. Students using humans/vertebrates, or potentially hazardous biological agents, chemicals, or devices must include additional information as well. Carefully read the ISEF guidelines for ...
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Some science fairs want you to discuss what additional research you might want to do based on what you learned. Acknowledgments. This is your opportunity to thank anyone who helped you with your science fair project, from a single individual to a company or government agency. How to Write a Bibliography in APA and MLA styles With Examples.
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