Janice VanCleave's A+ Science Fair Workbook and Project Journal, Grades 7-12 [Paperback]

A great way to prepare for any science fair

This comprehensive workbook from Janice VanCleave promotes science success in school and at science fair time. It features 50 complete experiments from all areas of the science curriculum, supplemented with notebook pages and a personal project journal. Middle and high school students will find plenty of suggestions for changing the experiments and designing their own, along with unique projects on related topics. With lots of illustrations and explanations that make the subject matter easy to understand, the experiments can be done at home or in the classroom and require only easy-to-find materials.

I. A Guide to Science Fair Projects.

1. The Scientific Method.

2. Topic Research.

3. Categories.

4. Project Research.

5. Project Overview.

6. Experimental Data.

7. Project Summaries.

8. The Display.

9. Presentation and Evaluation.

II. 55 A+ Science Fair Project Ideas.

Astronomy.

1. Solar System Scale: Miniature Model.

2. Barycenter: The Balancing Point.

3. Orbital Eccentricity: How Circular a Celestial Body's Path Is.

4. Angular Separation: Angular Distance between Celestial Bodies.

5. Orbital Period: Time of Revolution.

6. Artificial Satellites: Man-Made Orbiters.

7. Rotation: The Spinning of Celestial Bodies.

8. Apparent Magnitude: Apparent Star Brightness.

9. Parallax: Apparent Shift of an Object.

10. Sunspots: Cooler Surface Regions.

11. Galilean Satellló"