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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
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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
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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