Science Fair Projects!

 

Hey kids! Are you looking for fun ideas for your science fair projects? Look at the bottom of the page for the slide show for some Kids' Science Challenge activities that you can use. Share them with your friends, parents and teachers too!

 

Make a Flavor Lab, Cola-flavored Frosting, Secret Soda, or other fun flavor experiments. To get instructions just download the FLAVOR SCIENCE PROJECTS [PDF:122KB]

You can show where water comes from with a "fingerprinting" experiment, demonstrate how to take the salt out of saltwater, or build your own water sampling kit. To get instructions just download the WATER PROJECTS [PDF:166KB]

You can do experiments with balance and speed and show how skateboards use physics. To get instructions just download the SKATEBOARD PROJECTS [PDF:195KB]

Build your own radio to show how astronomers at the SETI Institute listen for signals from aliens, or make a message decoder to show how the SETI scientists might make sense of alien signals. To get instructions just download the SETI PROJECTS [PDF:259KB]
 

Click here to get Kids's Science Challenge VIDEOS AND AUDIO PODCASTS that you can use in your science fair projects too!

To get a booklet with more experiments on all of these subjects, just download the PDF from the KIDS' SCIENCE CHALLENGE ACTIVITY KIT [PDF:1.3MB]. If you didn't send in a Kids' Science Challenge Entry to get the free activity kit, then you'll need to buy some of the parts. After you've decided which experiment you want to do, here's where you can get the supplies:

Flavor strips - available from Sargent-Welch
Water test strips - available from Hach or Discover Testing
Fingerboard skateboard - available from TechDeck, Oriental Trading, or Fingerboards.com
SETI audio - click here to download a FREE mp3 audio file [6.86MB]

Be one of the first kids to enter the Kids' Science Challenge in our second year to get the Free Activity Kit! Come back to the Kids' Science Challenge web site in the fall for more details.

Teachers and Parents: Click here for CLASSROOM LESSON PLANS on all of the Kids' Science Challenge topics.

Slideshow: Share your science fair projects with other kids here! Send us a photo and a paragraph about your science fair project and we'll add it to the slide show. You need to have your parent or guardian's permission to participate, so download this permission form, fill it out and have your parent or guardian sign it. Instructions for sending it back to us are on the form. After we get the signed form we'll send you an email with instructions for sending us your photos.