We kind of had an education theme last month and we're going to continue this in September, but we're going to tackle specific subjects and projects. This week: The dreaded Science Fair. Well, it was at least dreaded for me as that was never my strong subject, but I'm sure there are some of you out there that really did some awesome stuff with ten square feet of aluminum foil, a large funnel, some rubber bands and a live hamster (let you're imagination run wild with that one).
And that's kinda what we're looking for this week: sources for science project ideas. This is definitely a shelf that we have memorized by now, so I'm also looking for online resources. If these sources have project ideas divided by topic and material (a common customer request in my experience), even better. Please give us your thoughts!
Here are the steps for posting a comment:
Click on the word comments at the bottom of the post.
Click on the drop down menu next to Comment as and choose Name/URL.
Click on the box below Name and type your name, then click Continue.
Click on the large comment box, type your question or questions (plus whatever else you'd like to contribute to the discussion) and then click Post Comment.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I have found that Grolier is the best database for science fair questions.
ReplyDeleteThe Internet Public Library has lots of good resource guides and pathfinders for many subjects, including science fair projects: http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/projectguide/
ReplyDeletehttp://sciencebuddies.org has a topic selection wizard, How-To information, Ask-An-Expert forum and Teacher Resources. The site is non-profit and does collect information but no personal information. Just statistics valuable in maintaining the site.
ReplyDeleteThere is an excellent reference collection available at a few of the regionals and Main called "Science experiments on file : experiments, demonstrations, and projects for school and home. " It groups experiments by subject and gives a pretty thorough walkthrough of the process of doing them. Projects are in the format of pullout pages that can be xeroxed.
ReplyDeleteKeith H.
The Gale database "Science Resource Center" has a huge listing of experiments by topic. On the SRC home page click "advanced search"; the only thing you have to do on that page is click on the "document type" drop down menu-select "experiment activity" and click search. There are currently 97 topics from adhesives to weather and each topic has about 2 experiments and other resources included.
ReplyDelete