Science fair project boards serve to communicate the essence and results of an experiment in an easily understandable format. Each section must adhere to published guidelines; starting with its introduction or hypothesis section and literature review section before progressing onto experimental procedure materials results and conclusion sections.
Visual elements
A student’s project display board serves as a summary of his/her experiment, providing an overview of research question, hypothesis, experimental procedure, results and conclusions clearly. An effective way to make your science fair project stand out is through visual elements like photos or diagrams; charts and graphs may help judges quickly grasp data more quickly which may earn extra points during competitions.
Science fair posters must include both the title of your project and author’s name, with bold, clear text easy for viewers from three feet away to read. Typing out text rather than hand writing it may also make reading it simpler and look neater.
To create a science fair poster, click the “create a storyboard” button and provide details of your project. Name your storyboard before continuing. From here, you can change the layout of your poster by changing font size or color; adding images; text; clip art etc; as well as preview options that provide instant color changes.
Text
An effective science fair board helps convey your experiment to others in an engaging and easy-to-read manner, without spelling and grammar errors or visual clutter. A visually appealing board with well-organized data should also help demonstrate its excellence in this regard.
Your text must also be large enough for all to read easily from across the room, starting with your title as the largest font and gradually decreasing with section titles in size order. Font style also matters, and for best results opt for something with minimal visual elements that doesn’t compete for attention on your board.
Start off your board with an introduction (either an abstract or hypothesis). Follow that with literature review, procedure details, results and conclusions sections with graphs/pictures of data collected; note any significant conclusions that emerged during your experiment as well. These sections should be presented chronologically from left to right.
Layout
After students have conducted their research and experiment, gathered data and carried it out, they must create a display board to present their work to others and demonstrate their creative flair and design skills. This provides them with a great chance to show what they have accomplished!
Science fair project boards come in various formats; some commonly-used layouts can help. One such approach is called the “block” layout, in which one central image or text is surrounded by multiple images or text depicting various steps or processes of your project above it.
Font and color selection is also important; using bold fonts can make your poster pop out, but be mindful to choose an easily legible size from far away. Visual elements (photographs, drawings, charts and graphs) should complement rather than compete with your words; colored paper provides a beautiful way to frame your work and give it more of a professional edge.
Presentation
Science fair projects typically require a display board to communicate their details to their target audience, with most people opting for a standard three-panel board which opens out to 36″ tall by 48″.
An effective science fair project display should go beyond text to include images and charts to further demonstrate experiment results. If, for instance, your experiment involves investigating the effect of fertilizers on plant growth, pictures of various kinds of plants should also be included as evidence of this fact.
As part of their project, title should be large enough for easy reading from a distance and be descriptive enough to grab audience’s attention. Following this should come an explanation of problem, hypothesis and results, followed by summary of what was learned from experiment. Finally, conclusions should provide conclusions and provide suggestions for further research.