Science+Fair

__**Welcome to Matamata Intermediate Science Fair **__



This page contains information that will help you with the process of the school science fair. There are 3 different categories:
 * 1) Science Investigations
 * 2) Technology
 * 3) Consumer Investigations

__**Investigation **__ 1. Study question or Aim - Purpose of experiment 2. Hypothesis - Prediction of what will happen 3. Equipment - Material needed to conduct experiment 4. Method - How the experiment is to be conducted 5. Results - Written and pictorial record of results 6. Conclusion - How results related to hypothesis - Scientific reasons why results occurred - How this applies or can be applied to real life

__Layout of Board (a broad guide)__ Study question/aim - goes on heading board Hypothesis, Equipment and Method - goes on left wing of board Results - goes in the middle of Board, as visually appealing. Conclusion - goes on right wing of board

__**Technology **__ 1. Need - Where did the idea for the invention come from - Who else thinks it’s a good idea 2. Criteria - 5 or 6 requirements 3. What’s on the market already? - Broad search of what is in market place to determine if already invented 4. Evaluation - Decision about why to go ahead with invention 5. Design Briefs - Pencil drawings 6. Evaluation - Decision about which design brief to use 7. Trialling - Self-testing and modifications - Trials conducted by others and modifications 8. Marketing - Who will make it? - How much will it cost? - How will it be advertised? __ Layout of Board (a broad guide) __ “Catchy” title - goes on heading board Need, criteria, what’s on the market and evaluation - goes on left wing of board Designs, photographs of making of prototype, Trialling and Evaluation - goes in the middle of Board, as visually appealing. Marketing - goes on right wing of board

Your title can go across the link board - that keeps the whole board stable/together - in large letters for all to see. On the right hand-side of your board goes your **Trialling ** results and **Marketing ** of the product. Any questionnaires that you have used for the trialling goes into your log book Your log book and actual prototype will sit on the desk in from of your display board. The bold words are the words that would be good ones to use as sub-headings on your board. Make them large and the font of your writing large enough to read from a distance.




 * __ Some points to remember: __**

Log Book A day-to-day diary of how the process unfolded for you - dates when you did things - copies of any websites that you visited in your research, pictures of the product that relates to yours which you found there and descriptions/evaluations of these products against your criteria, any written correspondence/summaries of phone calls you have made to any company that you have consulted in the process of your work, transcripts of oral questionnaires or copies of written questionnaires.... anything related to your project that isn't on your board in other words!!
 * * ** ALL SCIENCE FAIR PROJECTS REQUIRE A LOG BOOK
 * GOOD IDEA TO INCLUDE PHOTOGRAPHS OF PROCESS
 * IF DOING AN INVESTIGATION, MAKE SURE THAT IT IS NOT MERELY A DEMONSTRATION OF AN EXISTING IDEA

Some useful sites to help with ideas - includes other regions science fair winners/entries [] [] [] [] []


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