[LM_NET] HIT: Books on science fair projects

[Nicole Sette <nsette@GMAIL.COM>]

Hi All,
Many of you requested a hit. I had many great responses and cannot wait to
order some of these titles.

Botany     Dashefsky, Steve
Environmental Science    Dashefsky, Steve
Microbiology     Dashefsky, Steve
Zoology     Dashefsky, Steve
Championship Science Fair Projects      Bardhan-Quallen, Sudipta
The Complete Handbook of  Science Fair Projects    Bochinski, Julianne

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Try books by Jan VanCleeve.  There are many of them.  I'm not sure if they
are involved enough for HS but our middle schoolers use them.

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Science fair books are a real interest of mine, because I think there
are so many bad ones out there!  Too many books that claim to have
winning science fair projects are just full of simple demonstrations,
not true experiments.

One of my favorite books on the subject is called How to Make Your
Science Project Scientific by Thomas Moorman.  The Complete Handbook of
Science Fair Projects by Bochinski is okay, too.  There is one called
Science Fair Handbook published by McGraw Hill that starts out well,
but has inane examples for projects (like which battery lasts
longer-I'm so tired of that one).  One called the Super Science Fair
Sourcebook by Maxine Haren Iritz is more geared to high school, but the
computer language and programs included are dated.  Its copyright is
1996, so maybe they have a newer edition.

Resources geared more toward the International Science Fair might be
better for high school, but some of those are very deep!

I used to teach science, so cheesy science fair books are one of my pet
peeves!

There might be some links of help to you on this page I made
www.quia.com/pages/crestonsciencefair.html

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Not books but this list should help you and colleagues .....

http://www.shambles.net/pages/students/scfair/

This is part of a larger Science page at

http://www.shambles.net/science/

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I have a terrific website! The materials are inexpensive and the experiments
are creative. There is one experiment that I think is especially great.  You
can purchase beads (on the website) that change color when they are exposed
to the sun. Students coat the beads with a variety of suntan lotions to find
out which one works the best.

http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiments/

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Hi, Nicole.
I have found the Robert Gardner books published by Enslow are fairly good
for high school. At least the cover photos show older kids rather than
younger!
Some more general books are: The parent's guide to science fairs by John
Barron;
<http://137.164.143.38/webopac/title?searchtext=The+parent%27s+guide+to+science+fairs>1001
ideas for science projects by Marion A. Brisk; and
<http://137.164.143.38/webopac/title?searchtext=1001+ideas+for+science+projects>
The
complete handbook of science fair projects by Julianne Blair Bochinski
<http://137.164.143.38/webopac/title?searchtext=The+complete+handbook+of+science+fair+projects>
I have a list of links to online resources at:
http://rhslibrary.org/science_fair.htm

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we have several science fair books, 100 amazing make-it-yourself science
fair projects, by Vecchione; Blue ribbon science fair projects, by Iritz;
Environmental science: high-school science fair projects by Dashefsky; The
complete handbook of science fair projects by Bochinski; New ides for scienc
fair projects by Sawyer.  And a favorite of mine, anything by Janice
VanCleave.  Seems like World Almanac would have good books on science fair.
Good luck

-- 
Nicole Sette
School Library Media Specialist
Essex County Vocational/Technical Schools
Newark, NJ 07107
973-483-5466 ext. 3016
nsette@essextech.org

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