Science Fair Tips - EBSCO Information Services



Using Library Resources to Research

Science Fair Projects

Recommended Online Magazine Databases

Suggested Web Sites

Notable Science Fair Books

[pic]

Science Fair Projects…The right of passage for almost every middle and high school student. Often vaunted, sometimes dreaded, they beckon students to the tactile and interactive world of scientific investigation. Where to start? What to study? Animal, Person, Vegetable, or Mineral? How to apply the Scientific Method? With magnets, test tubes, hydraulics or robotics?

How to get the ideas rolling? With the right tools, every student experiment can be a learning success. In class, in the library, or as a home assignment, ask students to list up to five general or specific subject areas they’d like to explore with a science fair experiment. Then ask them to name a more specific aspect of a subject they’d like to study. Continually narrowing the focus will shape their thinking and prepare them to apply the Scientific Method.

Good Sources

Take full advantage of the library’s resources – computers or computer labs, computer-based online resources, books and educational video and DVD media. Use the library as staging area for research, or as a secondary brainstorming area for any student who is still trying to home in on a topic. Class trips to the library will familiarize students with information at their disposal and help them become comfortable enough to move about sections of the library on their own to complete research.

Online Magazine Databases

The library’s online magazine databases offer quality articles from respected journals to help students research topics, and search for articles about science experiments.

EBSCO Publishing databases that can be of help include:

▪ Science Reference Center™ - Designed to meet every student's science research needs, Science Reference Center contains nearly 640 full-text titles from leading scientific encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, biographies and images. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.

▪ General Science Collection™ - Provides information on all aspects of the scientific world and offers full text coverage for more than 60 of the most popular science publications.

▪ Scientific American Archive Online™ - Some topics covered in the archive are: health and medicine, cosmology and astronomy, chemistry, life sciences, physics, oceanography, medicine, mathematics, and archaeology; upper high school level.

▪ MAS Ultra – general interest database covers science topics, upper middle and high school level.

▪ Middle Search Plus – general interest database covers science topics, middle school level.

*For more information on these databases please visit

Links to Basic Search Tips for EBSCO interfaces

Student Research Center

Kids Search:

EBSCOhost:

Suggested Web Sites

▪ Discovery School - Science Fair Central

▪ Marco Polo – Partner-Reviewed Internet Content for the Classroom*

Click right tab: Search MarcoPolo

Search for: ‘science fair projects’

Select grade level

*Reviewed by Science Net Links

▪ Super Science Fair Projects

super-science-fair-

▪ Odyssey of the Mind*



*Unlike the other web sites listed, Odyssey of the Mind is an international educational program that provides creative problem-solving opportunities for teams of students from kindergarten through college.

Suggested Notable Books

▪ Janice VanCleave's A+ Science Fair Projects (Paperback); ISBN: 0471331023

▪ Championship Science Fair Projects: 100 Sure to Win Experiments, by Sudipta Barham-Quallen; ISBN: 1402711387

▪ The Complete Handbook of Science Fair Projects (Paperback)

by Julianne Blair Bochinski; ISBN: 0471460435

▪ Prize Winning Science Fair Projects for Curious Kids, by Joe Rhatigan and Rai Newcomb; ISBN: 1579907504

▪ The Scientific American Book of Great Science Fair Projects (Paperback)

by Scientific American, Marc Rosner; ISBN: 0471356255

................
................

In order to avoid copyright disputes, this page is only a partial summary.

Google Online Preview   Download