There’s nothing more interesting than a well thought out science fair research paper the plus side is the chance to experiment!

Let me take a guess on why you found your way here… You’re not dense, just clueless and you wanted a gold mine of ideas for a science fair research paper, good guess? It’s okay, I’ve walked a day in those shoes before. Now it’s my tern to pass the buck. Want to talk about the weather? How cloud formation produces rain drops? How about the sun the moons and the stars, meteorites and/or constellations? Too overdone? You want a few original ideas? A riddle comes to mind “…there’s nothing in the barrel, but something in the barrel that makes the barrel lighter –what is it?” Could the answer be air? What do you think the weight of air equals? If a square foot of air weighs a ton then wouldn’t that make the barrel heavier? How about a feather? A feather has an immeasurable weight to a home scale, but it certainly has a weight to it. Besides that fact, it certainly is “something” not nothing…so answer must be (drum role please) a hole. That’s something in the barrel, but nothing in the barrel –isn’t that the point of science and discoveries?

Your teacher expects a scientific method from you. Your science fair research paper needs to answer the five questions: who, what, where, when and why. Start the paper with a question followed by your hypothesis (what you believe will occur) and work through the necessary steps and experimentation until you have received the answer. Define all the important words, concepts and equations pertinent to your paper. If you insert prior works to this effect, give the credit to the original source and if you use words delivered by another person credit the original author, citation and credit are always important in written works. Your plan needs to describe the procedures you intend to use while conducting your experiments. Provide a short history of similar experiments and where your idea(s) derived from. Supply a detailed list of all the materials you used in your experiment. Document the result in the course of time you were given to start, the results need to be expressed in exact measurement not assumption. The conclusion of course is the answer to the problem, hypothesis and question you posed at the very beginning of your assignment.

Much more fun than writing an essay, getting to play theories…go ahead and test these interesting facts:

A transport truck and a feather are dropped in air at the same time, which one lands first? One thing to understand is that weight has no measure in air. It’s all about air resistance as opposed to velocity. Regardless of what objects are dropped, gravity works to pull them downward. If they were simultaneously dropped at the same height, they will simultaneously land. The transport didn’t beat the feather, are you surprised? Gravity and air resistance provide the same acceleration for everything. Your science fair research paper needs to clearly define what you know vs what you think you know. While science tells us there is no weight measure in air, it also tells us that objects loose weight when they are placed in water. Therefore a kilo on land weighs more than a kilo in the water. If you fill a bucket to the rim with water then climbed in, water would spill out of sides proving that water weight reacts to body weight. An object can only float in the water if it weighs less than the water. An egg will not float in the pot, but try making the water weigh more than the egg and it will. How do you enhance the density of water? –by adding salt! Are you amazed? Try it at home –how much salt does it take to make the water denser than the egg?

Give Essay-911.com a try if you can’t think up something off the charts and cheers to you if you leave here inspired.

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