Project Display Board

Students may want to create a cardboard project display board for their project.

Convenient places to purchase the display board in Redmond include Target, Staples, Michael's and Ben Franklin. You can also order at Amazon.com Current display board prices average ~$8 + tax and families with a financial hardship may receive a free display board at no cost.

Another option with a little more work is to recycle a used, large piece of cardboard and make your own "free" project display board (instructions at link).

Project Ideas

There are a number of great internet resources out there to help you find a topic for your project.

• For age appropriate experiments you can search the King County Library catalog or internet using phrases such as "science projects for young children".  Some other suggested starting points include:
• Science Kids Experiments for Kids  
• BuzzFeed 24 Kids' Science Experiments That Adults Can Enjoy Too  
• Science Bob Fun Science Experiments
• Pinterest Best Kids' Science Experiments  
• Education.com Kindergarten Science Fair Project Ideas
• Fun Science Experiments with Bottles

• Guide to Fun Experimental Science Projects

• One of the best science fair project sites includes a “Topic Selection Wizard". Once you have selected a topic, this site actually shows you how to set up an experiment within that topic. Use their ideas or adjust them to match best with your own interests!
• Browse this site to find completed projects and displays by other students.

• This site offers lots of good topics with more information available for sale.
• This site has lots of good science project questions you can find answers for.
• Turn a cool demonstration or science video you've seen into your own science experiment. 

Science Fair Books

Below are books that can help choose a science fair topic and design a project.  The Horace Mann library has a special section of Science Fair Project books and some may be also found at the Redmond Public Library.  All of these books can be purchased online via Amazon.com, Half.com, or via local bookstores and links are included below for both reviews and purchasing information. 

700 Science Experiments for Everyone, Doubleday, 1958,             ISBN 0-385-05275-8

Great Science Fair Projects, Scientific America, Marc Rosner, 2000,             ISBN 0-471-35625-5

Science Fair Projects for Dummies, Maxine Levaren, Wiley Publishers, 2003             ISBN 0-7645-5460-3

Sure to Win Science Fair Projects, Joe Rhatigan, Lark Books Publisher, 2002,             ISBN 1-57990-238-3

Hands-On Science, King Fisher Publisher, 2001,             ISBN 0-7534-5440-8

The Science of Life, Projects and Principles for Beginning Biologist, Frank G. Bottone Jr., 2001, Chicago Review Press, ISBN 1-55652-382-3

The Complete Handbook of Science Fair Projects, Revised edition, Julianne Blair Bochinski, 1996, Wiley and Sons Publishers, ISBN 0-471-12378-1

Electron Herding 101, 50 Hands-on Science Experiments That Explore Electricity, B.K. Hixson, 2002. Loose in the Lab, Inc. Publisher ISBN 0966096509

Science in Seconds for Kids, Over 100 science experiments you can do in ten minutes, Jean Potter, Wiley and Sons publisher, 1995 ISBN 0-471-04456-3

Mad Professor – Concoct Extremely Weird Science Projects, Mark Frauenfelder, Chronicle books, 2002, ISBN 0-8118-3554-5

Strategies for Winning Science Fair Projects, Joyce Henderson and Heather Tomasello,             Wiley and Sons, 2002,             ISBN 0-471-41957-5

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