Science Fair Display

Here are a few tips if you need them when putting together your child's Science Fair Tri-board:

I think the picture below is a great example of what the students should have on their display.

-Project Title could be their Research Question.  Example: What is the effect of different heights of ramps on the distance a marble rolls?

-Materials: Just a list of everything your child used in/during the investigation

-Procedure: The steps your child used to complete the investigation

-Results: What happened?  Maybe organize these in a table/chart/graph

-Abstract: Don't need!
            -Instead of Abstract, I would include the Hypothesis (guess=what did your child think would happen) & the Variable Tested (what did you change in the investigation/what were you testing; example: 3 different height ramps)

-Background Knowledge: Optional!
           -Instead of this section, I would make room for pictures during the investigation if you have them.

-Conclusion: We are working on this in class!!
          -If you'd like to work on this at home please try to include: 

• Summarize your science fair project results in a few sentences
• State whether your results support or contradict your hypothesis (Was my guess correct or not?)
• Summarize and evaluate your experimental procedure, making comments about its success and effectiveness (What went well & not so well?)
• What can people/the scientific community learn from your investigation/what was the importance of your study?

-Future Recommendations: What would you suggest to someone who wants to repeat your experiment?  Now that you've done this, what would you do differently next time?

Here are few other examples: