Science Buddies - Science Fair Project Ideas, Answers, & Tools

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Science Buddies is a non-profit organization focused on developing science enrichment tools for students in grades K-12.  The free digital tools are designed to promote deep understanding of scientific experimentation through student science fair project. Resources include:

1) Topic Selection Wizard:  an online survey that helps students narrow a scientific area of interest for their science fair project.  In addition, the Wizard provides students with a series of sample projects in each of the categories.
2) Science Fair Project Guide:  this tool walks students through each step of completing a project -- picking a topic, identifying and controlling variables, developing a research plan, and setting up a display board.
3) Ask an Expert Forum:  Free online venue staffed by volunteer science professionals, where students can get answers to science questions or guidance in developing their projects.

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Education Foundations - Research Design & Methodology Education Practices - Informal Education - Instructional Material Design = Project - Technology General Physics - General Other Sciences - Chemistry - Engineering - Environmental Science	- High School - Middle School - Elementary School	- Collection - Instructional Material = Instructor Guide/Manual = Interactive Simulation = Project = Student Guide = Tutorial - Tool = Search Engine - Audio/Visual = Image/Image Set

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Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 2002 Kenneth Lafferty Hess Family Charitable Foundation
Keywords:: Science Practices, Science fair, experimental design, fair test, hypothesis, science fair project, science project, scientific method, variables
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created September 4, 2008 by Justin Spahn
Record Updated:: September 17, 2013 by Caroline Hall
Last Update when Cataloged:: September 2, 2008
Other Collections:: The Physics Front

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Next Generation Science Standards

Crosscutting Concepts (K-12)

Science Addresses Questions About the Natural and Material World (2-12)

Science findings are limited to questions that can be answered with empirical evidence. (5)

Science is a Human Endeavor (3-12)

Science affects everyday life. (3-4)
Scientists and engineers are guided by habits of mind such as intellectual honesty, tolerance of ambiguity, skepticism, and openness to new ideas. (6-8)

NGSS Nature of Science Standards (K-12)

AAAS Benchmark Alignments (2008 Version)

1. The Nature of Science

1B. Scientific Inquiry

3-5: 1B/E1. Scientific investigations may take many different forms, including observing what things are like or what is happening somewhere, collecting specimens for analysis, and doing experiments.
6-8: 1B/M1b. Scientific investigations usually involve the collection of relevant data, the use of logical reasoning, and the application of imagination in devising hypotheses and explanations to make sense of the collected data.
6-8: 1B/M2ab. If more than one variable changes at the same time in an experiment, the outcome of the experiment may not be clearly attributable to any one variable. It may not always be possible to prevent outside variables from influencing an investigation (or even to identify all of the variables).
9-12: 1B/H2. Hypotheses are widely used in science for choosing what data to pay attention to and what additional data to seek, and for guiding the interpretation of the data (both new and previously available).

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