Science Fair Project Boards provide an excellent way to present your experiment’s details in an engaging and easily understood format. By including charts, graphs, photos, or any other visual aids your board becomes even more engaging and user friendly.
Display boards are self-standing boards typically constructed of poster paper or foam core that can easily be transported. Their construction makes them economical, lightweight and easily transportable.
Introduction
Science fair project boards provide an effective means of communicating the main areas and results of your research to a wider audience. However, unlike a written report, these should be designed so they are easily read.
Step one in developing a project should be creating an eye-catching title. Your title should clearly convey its purpose while remaining short and accurate.
Students should begin compiling a materials list as soon as they decide upon a topic for their project. This will ensure they obtain all of the essential supplies, and can begin designing their display boards with colors that accentuate rather than detract from it – remember, most people will read your project from left to right and top to bottom!
Materials
Science fair project boards are used to organize information and communicate the results of experiments to judges, classmates and viewers. Tri-fold boards are usually the most commonly seen displays.
As part of your science fair project, make sure to include all necessary elements. This includes title, questions, hypothesis, procedures, materials resources personal information and conclusions.
Your presentation should also include a table or graph with your results, to allow people to quickly understand your experiment’s data quickly and accurately. If drawing is difficult for you, using photos or illustrations instead will make the project more intriguing for judges and will add an element of surprise!
Procedures
Once a student has identified their problem, chosen a testable hypothesis, conducted an experiment and collected results, it’s time to prepare the project board. Data should be organized into tables or graphs in order to convey its meaning effectively – this makes a good layout design an essential element of project success.
Student should include any literature which helped him conduct the experiment in the literature section with proper citation. Furthermore, experimental procedure should be detailed within procedure section and any materials utilized listed within resources section. Finally, results and conclusions reached by student should also be displayed accordingly – people typically read boards left-to-right and top-to-bottom.
Results
The results section is where you share with your audience what was learned during the experiment, using tables and graphs for easy reading. Your conclusion should summarise whether your findings support or contradict your original hypothesis while outlining possible areas for further study.
Keep in mind that people read science fair projects from left to right and top to bottom, so organize your sections accordingly. Additionally, leave enough space for pictures, diagrams, graphs and tables.
An effective science fair project report can make the difference between an ordinary and exceptional project. Here is your opportunity to shine and make your work stand out! An in-depth summary of your experiments will showcase all of the hard work put in by you and others involved.
Conclusions
Once your child has reviewed and summarized her results, she can write the conclusion for their science fair project. This section should address any outstanding issues raised during their experiment and how those results compare with her hypothesis; additionally it should discuss areas for future investigation as well as ways in which the experiment could be improved further down the road.
Your child may learn that sunlight doesn’t influence tomato size despite her initial hypothesis; nevertheless, their discovery contributes significantly to humanity’s knowledge base.
Even if the results don’t meet expectations, an experiment doesn’t need to be seen as a failure – many important scientific breakthroughs were discovered through similar means. Judges will focus on what your child did and what she learned from her findings.