| The degree of complication for a science fair project | | | | projects are also projects that they can have fun with. |
| depends on the grade level your child is in. During the | | | | So powering a light bulb by harnessing electric power |
| lower grades, simple projects are usually accepted | | | | from lemons is one way to get a child both interested |
| because younger students are not expected to have | | | | in science, and contend for a prize. Though the lemon |
| extremely complicated projects and procedures. This | | | | light bulb, potato clock, or potato light bulb, and lemon |
| does not mean, however that there are no available | | | | clock have all been done, try tweaking the experiment |
| projects for the lower grades, and if there are that | | | | to see if you can harness enough electricity to power |
| these projects do not stand a chance to win at the | | | | something else. The study of electricity is always a |
| fair. Simple projects, because they are simple stand a | | | | winner at any science fair, for as long as the child |
| chance to win because this means anyone can do it, | | | | comes up with a more original twist to the old |
| and that means the science behind it can be easily | | | | favorites. |
| learned. | | | | Older and more serious students joining the fair can |
| Great science projects for younger students involve | | | | get great science projects from the Internet. Creating |
| incorporating what they learned in class and practicing | | | | their own solar oven, or photographing the inside of an |
| the theory or concept in a real life situation. So a study | | | | insect's head through materials and chemicals easily |
| of the weather can lead to a project that creates | | | | found in anyone's home are both great projects to |
| weather instruments out of materials found around the | | | | include in the fair. Your child can photograph an insect |
| home. Home made weather instruments that can | | | | on the spot or bake brownies for the fair judges. |
| accumulate data and can be compared to actual | | | | Whatever you do, just be sure that the project you |
| weather data taken from the Internet will be a sure | | | | choose has something original to it. If you can introduce |
| contender at the science fair. If the project can come | | | | something new to a project that is also relevant to |
| with a demonstration (as what is usually required of | | | | what you learned in school, then you are very likely to |
| such fair projects) then it is even better! | | | | place in the science fair. |
| For mid-elementary students, great science fair | | | | |