Janice VanCleave's Help! My Science Project Is Due Tomorrow! Easy Experiments You Can Do Overnight - PDF
نویسندگان: Janice VanCleave
خلاصه: So you want to do a science project. Great!You’ll get to show off your work to yourclass and you may even get an award. But thebest part is that you’ll learn a lot about scienceby observing, investigating, and sharing whatyou have learned with others. I hope that youhaven’t really left your science project untilthe last minute, because you’ll get a lot moreout of your project (and probably get a bettergrade) if you take your time. You can do theexploratory investigations in this bookovernight, but I hope that you’ll considerworking on the extensions, doing research,and using what you’ve discovered from theinvestigation to come up with your own greatscience project.A science project is like a mystery in whichyou are the detective searching for answers.But with a science project, you get to selectwhich mystery to solve. After you’ve selectedyour mystery, you can creatively design meth-ods to uncover clues. These clues eventuallyshould lead to the final revelation of who,what, when, where, how, and why.This book presents fun project ideas on awide variety of subjects from astronomy, biol-ogy, chemistry, earth science, and physics. Inthe 50 chapters, you’ll find investigations,facts, ideas, and questions for projects you cando easily all on your own. It’s your job to picka topic, discover the answers, and develop theideas into a terrific project!HOW TO USE THIS BOOKYou can start anywhere in the book. Flipthrough the chapters for a topic that soundsinteresting. Before you do any of the investi-gations, read the chapter through completely.Once you’ve decided on a project, collect allthe materials needed for the investigation andfollow procedures carefully. The format foreach chapter is as follows:• So You Want to Do a Projectabout . . . A statement introducing thetopic of the project• Let’s Explore An exploratory investiga-tion that will become part of your research• Purpose A statement of the investiga-tion’s objective• Materials A complete list of what you’llneed• Procedure A step-by-step walk-throughthat shows you how to do the investigation• Results A statement of the expectedoutcome• Why? An explanation of why the investi-gation works. When a new term is intro-duced and explained, it appears in boldtype; these terms can also be found in theGlossary.• For Further Investigation An exampleof the way the data from the investigationcan be used to develop a project questionon the same topic• Clues for Your Investigation Ideas forways to experimentally answer the projectquestion. Some chapters include specialideas for displaying your science project.• Other Questions to Explore A list ofother possible science questions for you tothink about in creating your own projects• References and Project Books A listof books where information and other proj-ect ideas about the topic presented in thechapter can be found. It is important to getinformation from many different sourcesso that you will be as informed as possible.You can use Internet search engines ifthese resources are approved by your par-ent and teacher. No Web site URLs arelisted in this book because of the possibil-ity of sites being canceled or having achange of address