1. Onslow County Schools 2016-17 Science Fair and Engineering Fair

2. Elementary Science Fair
The Richlands Primary School Science & Engineering Fair will be held Tuesday, December 6.  Students will complete at the school level and the top ten students from our school will progress to display their projects at the county level Science & Engineering Science Fair on December .  (numbers are subject to change based on level of participation)

3. Required for All Projects
Question or problem being addressed
Hypothesis/Engineering Goals
Experiment Steps
Conclusion and Explanation of Why
Science Journal (record of evidence)
Research Plan

4. Research Plan
Provide a typed research plan and attach to Student Checklist 1A. Please include your name on each page. The Research Plan is done prior to experimentation.
The research plan for ALL projects is to include the following:
Question or Problem being addressed
Goals/Expected Outcomes/Hypothesis
Description in detail of method or procedures
Procedures: Detail of procedures and experimental design to be used for data collection
Data Analysis: Describe the procedures you will use to analyze the data/results that answer research questions or hypothesis
Bibliography: List at least 3 major references(e.g. science journal articles, books, internet sites) from your literature review.

5. Science Fair Projects

6. Steps to Finalizing a Student Project
For the Science Fair
Complete Research Plan
Begin Experiment
Analyze Results
Draw Conclusions
Present Finds

7. Begin the experiment
An experiment is a test you plan to find the answer to a question. This is something your child should be able to do by themselves or with a little help from an adult. It should never harm your child, another person, or any animal.
Be sure you have enough time!
Make sure the experiment has little variables and that it is fair!

8. Analyze Results After experiments, examine and organize findings
Use graphs to show data
Identify patterns in data
Look for experimental error and where they could occur.

9. Draw Conclusions
After the experiment generate a graph to show your data. You can use pictures in addition to the graph as well.
The conclusion may prove that the hypothesis is incorrect, but that is okay!
The important thing is that you made a discovery! Now research to explain why something happened the way it did

10. Present Findings
Explain what happened from beginning, middle, to end in your science journal.
Prepare a display board that shows everything you did!
Record observational data (what you noticed with your eyes) too!
Present your project to the school!

11. Display Boards
Size:
Depth (front to back): 30 inches or 76 centimeters
Width (side to side): 48 inches or 122 centimeters
Height (floor to top): 108 inches or 274 centimeters
Not allowed on project:
living/dead organisms, including plants
Soil, sand, rock, and/or waste samples, even if permanently encased in a slab of acrylic
sharp objects
water
glass
chemicals
taxidermy specimens or parts
preserved vertebrate or invertebrate animals
human or animal food
human/animal parts or body fluids (for example, blood, urine)
hazardous substances or devices

12. Display Boards - continued
Photographs/images must be cited; labeled with credits for photographer/creator and permission of subjects other than student
Graphs/charts must be cited; labeled with credit for person who made/generated
Pictures off web must be cited
Abstract is not posted on display board, but is displayed vertically
Data/log books along in front of display

13. Resources
Science Buddies: information for students, teachers, and parents
Science Project Ideas, information and support for Science Fair:
Science Fair Projects - Project Ideas Demonstrations and Instructions:
ISEF Science Primer:
Agricultural Ideas for Science Fair Projects:
Cool Science Fair Project Ideas and Science Fair Projects:
Nexus Research Group - Science Fair Main page:
Science Projects:
Research Project Ideas: Applying Science to Sustainability:
Neuroscience For Kids - science fairs: