Tips

Don't forget these important steps:

For All Projects:
  1. Identify your sources explicitly. What books or websites did the research come from?
  2. Make sure you can explain your project clearly and thoroughly, without looking at the display or report. For teams, both of you should be able to do this.
  3. The display board should be neat, clearly laid out, easy to read, and pleasing to the eye.

For Display or Research Projects:
  1. You must have a typed report that includes all the information that is in your display, including illustrations, charts, maps, or photos, and laid out in proper order.
  2. 30% of the mark is for your display … do a thorough job.

For Engineering Projects:
  1. The thing you made must be on display and clearly labeled or described
  2. You must have a typed report that includes a description of the object you made, how you made it, and what it is used for.
  3. Do the work yourself, with minimal help from others.

For Experiments:
  1. Your experiment must generate numbers. Make sure you are testing something you can measure.
  2. Your experiment should have been repeated several times.
  3. You must have a typed report that contains all the information in your display.
    Make sure you identify:
    - purpose, hypothesis, method, results, conclusions, and further questions to research
    - controlled variables, and how you controlled them
    - manipulated and measured variables
    - possible sources of error
  4. Your experiment must be repeated two or three times, and the results averaged. Include data analysis: charts, graphs, averages, tables, other statistics.
  5. Include new possible questions you might investigate, based on your results.


Science Fairs