SCIENCE FAIR WEB SITES

These are suggested resources for you to utilize in your lesson development and student searching for the Science Fair. Please also see your Library Media Specialist for print resources or utilize your library media center card catalog.

TEACHER RESOURCE SITES

Big6 Science Fair - http://www.hpl.lib.tx.us/youth/science_fair_index.html

What an excellent approach to science fair planning this site contains by utilizing the Big6 research method. It is definitely worth a look. It also has many excellent links to other resources to utilize during the planning stages.

Ultimate Science Fair Resource - http://www.scifair.org/

Welcome to The Ultimate Science Fair Resource, the Internet's premiere resource for science fair. Whether you are a student trying to find an idea for a project, a parent or teacher looking for information on building displays, or for the delight of experimentation you'll find it here.

Step-by-step Science Fair Access - http://www.accessexcellence.org/21st/TL/scifair/

This site is your first stop for your integration planning. It is a step-by-step process to science fair success including rubrics, guidelines, student tasks, etc.

Experimental Science Projects - http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/resources/cf/SciProjInter.html

This intermediate experimental science fair project web site follows a preset format for developing a science fair project. It has an excellent example following this format.

Science and Inventions Fair Website - http://valnet.mtvalleyhs.sad43.k12.me.us/MVMS/Science%20Fair/welcome.htm

Science and inventions fair website is not just for science nerds. This is a funny web site all about hosting and organizing a science fair aimed at the Middle School but is applicable to science fairs for any level.

Virtual Science Fair - http://physics.usc.edu/~gould/ScienceFairs/

A Virtual Library for science fairs. Links to science fairs across the world.

Science Fair Projects on the Web - http://sciencefairproject.virtualave.net/

Science fair projects on this web site are a good source for staff new to science fairs or the scientific method. It contains some excellent steps for successful science fair development.

NASA Imagine Site - http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/science.html

NASA always has an abundance of materials that will enhance many science related topics. This area is structured by content area and each content area contains educational materials divided by topic.

MarcoPolo Science Fair Resources - http://www.marcopolosearch.org/mpsearch/Search_Results.asp?orgn_id=2&log_type=1&hdnFilter=&hdnPerPage=15&txtSearchFor=Science+Fair+Projects&selUsing=all

This extremely long URL is the address for a MarcoPolo search on science fairs. You will find a wealth of information utilizing this excellent web portal – MarcoPolo. They even have a section of Math projects for science fairs for those of you who would like to do an integration project with the Math department.

STUDENT RESOURCES

Discovery School - http://school.discovery.com/sciencefaircentral/

Discovery school science fair central web site for everything about science fairs.

ThinkQuest - http://www.thinkquest.org/library/index.html

The ThinkQuest Library is a free educational resource featuring 5,500+ websites created by students around the world as part of a competition.

Science Fair Ideas - http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/~jbarron/sh.html

High school ideas for science fair projects. It has projects divided into specific categories for searching.

Science Fair's Homepage - http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/sciencefairs/

Science fairs homepage that is divided into grade levels for excellent suggestions for a science fair project. It includes resources for primary, elementary, intermediate, and senior type of projects.

Science Fair Project Subject Pathfinder - http://www.imcpl.org/bst_scibib.htm

This guide can help you to come up with something that might be a little more interesting than the run-of-the-mill project.

Home Experiments - http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/HOMEEXPTS/HOMEEXPTS.HTML

Simple scientific experiments that can be done in the average home.

Internet Public Library - http://www.ipl.org/youth/projectguide/

This Internet Public Library resource is for students planning a science fair project. It has an excellent section for “Ask An Expert” resources to have an expert help you plan your science fair project

Worldwide Student Science Fair Results - http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/resources/cf/SciProjIntro.html

This site is created for and by students in grades 3 through 6. Students and teachers the world-over are welcome to visit this site to read the results of student science fair projects, look for ideas for their own projects or to share the results of their projects with other students.

Mad Scientist Network - http://www.madsci.org/

This mad scientist network represents a collective cranium of scientists providing answers to your questions. For good measure we provide a variety of oddities and other ends as well. It is a really neat site to search for strange and different suggestions for science fair projects.

Science Club - http://scienceclub.org

The National Science Foundation's site of resources for students.

Science Hobbyist - http://amasci.com

This site contains some great links to resources to assist you with your Science Fair Project.

Successful Science Fair Projects - http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/fair.html and http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/experi.html

This is a student guide to successful science fair projects. The second link is to projects using the senses and the brain.

Multnomah Science Fair Links - http://www.multcolib.org/homework/physcihc.html#scipro

Numerous links to other science fair resources.

Exploratorium's Science Explorer - http://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/index.html

Science explorer and museum for science fair resources are found on this site.

Kids World 2000: Science - http://www.northvalley.net/kids/science.shtml

Science links to kids science sites around the world.

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