50 Nifty Super Science Fair Projects

IENCE FAIR PROJECTS SUPER SCIENCE FAIR PROJECTS Compiled by Jill Smolinski Written by Carol J. Amato, Eric Ladizinsky, Illustrated and Jill Smolinski by Kerry Manwaring Reviewed and endorsed by Tiffany Anderson, M. Ed., Science Department Chairperson, John Adams Middle School, Santa Monica, California Lowell ^fer House Los Angeles Contemporary Books Chicago © Copyright All rights reserved. No RGA Publishing Group, 1995 by part of this Inc. work may be reproduced or trans- mitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, except as may be 1976 Copyright Act or expressly permitted by the in writing by the publisher. Publisher: Jack Artenstein Vice President, Juvenile Division: Lise Director of Publishing Services: Editorial Director: Rena Copperman Brenda Pope-Ostrow Senior Editor: Managing Amos Amy Downing Editor, Juvenile Division: Jessica Oifer Craft Stylist: Charlene Olexiewicz Cover Photographer: Ann Bogart Cover craft in by Anthony Bogle, sixth grader at Chaparral Middle School Moorpark, California, and second place winner at the 1995 Ventura County Fair, computer/math division Library of Congress Catalog Card Number is ISBN: 1-56565-363-7 109 8 7 654 available. Contents Getting Started The 5 Method Scientific What Makes a Great Science Fair Project? 7 Follow the Rules! What's Next? 8 Winning Touches 50 5 for Your Project 9 Nifty Super Science Fair Projects On 11 1 The Heat 2 Get the Point? 3 The "Eyes" Have 4 Water Weight Gain 5 Are Your Suds "Duds"? 6 Earn a Good Conduct "Metal" 7 Hot, Hot, Hot! 8 Penny 9 Oh, Grow Up! Is 11 12 14 It 16 18 22 Your Thoughts for 26 Don't Be So Dense! 11 Red Sky 12 A Growing Global Problem 13 Acid Rain, Go Away 14 Buoy, Oh, Buoy! 15 Collapsing Under Pressure 16 It's Just a Phase 36 17 Falling for Color 38 18 Fancy Footwork 40 19 Fill 'er 20 Sound Advice 21 Mining 22 Seeing 28 Night Up! 30 32 34 42 44 for Cereal Is 24 25 10 at 20 Believing 45 46 35 23 Hero's Fountain 24 Drawing with 25 Thanks 26 Great Expectations 27 The Amazing Water Shooter 28 Here's 29 Solar 30 Any Which Sway 31 It's 32 And They're 33 Freefall! 34 Shape Up! 35 Fighting the Air Force 68 36 Here's Looking at You 70 37 The Big Crash 38