One of the major events a High School student would experience is doing the Science Fair Project. In fact, high school life and learning would not be complete without having to undergo such phase. This article will guide you through its process and in making this highlight event a memorable one.
10 Steps to a Successful Science Fair Project
1. Judging Criteria
There are seven criteria to judge the project which will provide you key to give you complete guidance to make your project. They are the skills, creativity, clarity, neatness, integrity, thoroughness, and finally the results.
2. Types
As there are five types available, just decide which of the projects you will like to conduct. These are demonstration, original research, collections, investigation, and models.
3. Categories
There are 14 categories for science fair which include social and behavioral science, chemistry, mathematics, medicine and health, computer science, engineering, botany, space and earth science, environmental science, physics, zoology microbiology, and biochemistry.
4. Branches of science
Out of the hundred science branches, you can choose the one which best suits you. You may include games, nutrition, psychology, theories, computer graphics, atomic physics, endangered species and also organic chemistry,.
5. Topics
Before coming up with a final topic for your science fair project, you need to make a list of proposals for different kinds of topics. From there, you will choose which one is best for you. The various subjects and topics you can choose from are botany, chemistry, physics, behavioral science, engineering, computer, zoology, environment science and much more. You may select any topic or topics in which you are interested.
6. Ideas
When you have decided on the final topic for your project, it is now time to gather ideas to elaborate the topic and to make your project more interesting to learn about.
7. Research Method
One of the important things to learn in making your project is the method of research. Indeed, science fair includes a lot of research, whether experimental or investigatory. Having said that, you need to find resources which you will go through in your research process.
8. Use of Scientific Method
When you are done doing the research you may need to use scientific method to support what you have researched and discovered.
9. Display
The science fair also involves exhibiting the newly gained knowledge of the students and sharing them to the other students and audience. This will be done by making a display. The minimum requirements for your display board are the following: a very catchy title, hypothesis, description, experimental procedures, outcome, analysis and finally, generalization.
10. Project Report
When everything is done, you will finally create a written project report which will contain the whole process you underwent in the project. Remember to document everything from start to end. You also need to follow guidelines in making your project report.