38,465 real projects from ISEF, the Canada-Wide Science Fair, JSHS, AJAS, the Calgary Youth Science Fair and the California Science & Engineering Fair — searchable by meaning, and filterable by fair, year, category and award.
CSEF · 2004
Zoology
Objectives/Goals Recent research on coral bleaching suggests the bacterium Vibrio shiloi might cause coral bleaching as water temperature increases. Vibrio shiloi renders algae that feed the…
CSEF · 2004
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if fear has an affect on the behavior of a mouse. I believe that a mouse will reach the end of a maze in a slower time after the rats# scent is a…
CSEF · 2004
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine whether or not the introduction of peanuts into the diet of chickens would result in larger and heavier chicken eggs. Assum…
CSEF · 2004
Zoology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to use the scientific method to determine if red sea urchins use touch or smell to find their food. Methods/Materials First, I starved the urchins for at le…
CSEF · 2004
Zoology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to observe the trapdoor snails throughout the day and record their behavior in tallied charts. My goal was to see if the behavioral patterns could be analyz…
CSEF · 2004
Zoology
Objectives/Goals In this study a transect in the intertidal zone of Davenport Landing State Beach is monitored to determine if the population of mussels impacts the biodiversity of the commu…
CSEF · 2004
Zoology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if new copper banding, copper with patina, or irrigated copper banding would prevent brown garden snails from reaching their food sources. We g…
CSEF · 2004
Zoology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to see how habitat diversity and pond size in flood basins affected the numbers of birds and the species of birds using the ponds, over a period of two year…
CSEF · 2004
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to explore what happens to the heart rate and the cardiac output in hearts that have atherosclerosis in the aorta and valve disease on the mit…
CSEF · 2004
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to determine if earthworms, represented by Eisenia fetida, can live and reproduce in distressed California ecosystems, such as soil from tille…
CSEF · 2004
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to determine if different external environmental factors, which simulate different natural habitats, affect the reproduction rates of Metri…
CSEF · 2004
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The focus of this experiment is to explore the possible ability of purple sea urchins by manipulating a non-tactile chemical sensory mechanism to detect distant objects, suc…
CSEF · 2004
Zoology
Objectives/Goals My problem question was #Can Mytilus edulis (mussels), in the class of bivalvia and the phylum mollusca, absorb the particles put in the water they live in?# My hypothesis s…
CSEF · 2004
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine how changes in water temperature affect the respiration rate of fish. The hypothesis of this experiment is that, if the water…
CSEF · 2004
Zoology
Objectives/Goals This experiment observes the fertilization rates of Sea urchin eggs in the presence of UV light in different amounts of time.The purpose is to determine the percentage rate…
CSEF · 2004
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals My objective while doing this project was to determine whether horses that were kept in a pasture had more or less parasites than horses that were kept in stalls. I predicte…
CSEF · 2004
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if feeding baby mice supplemental sugar coated cereals would lead to obesity. I believe that the mice that are given sugar coated cereals will ga…
CSEF · 2004
Zoology
Objectives/Goals My objective for this project was to learn how temperature would affect the sex ratio of the fruit flies. I hypothesized that the female fruit flies would outsurvive the mal…
CSEF · 2004
Zoology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to test my hypothesis that if the intensity of a magnetic field is increased, then the regenerative rate of a planarian that is exposed to that magnetic fie…
CSEF · 2004
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine how ocean water temperature affects the species composition and quantity of larvae that settle on different substratum. Methods/Materials Three…
CSEF · 2004
Zoology
Objectives/Goals In my study of snails this year, I wondered why there was a population decrease of the Planorbis rubrum. I also wondered what happened to the Marisa rotula, the striped trop…
CSEF · 2004
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose for doing this project is to prove that forensic odontology is a reliable science and that people can be positively identified by teeth or other dental features.…
CSEF · 2004
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to see which natural substance combined with meats such as Beef and Chicken would attract or repel drosophila. My goal was to see which subst…
CSEF · 2004
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals Members of four generations of my family have the special ability to easily find four-leaf clovers, leading me to hypothesize that flaw recognition has a genetic basis. I de…
CSEF · 2004
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment was to determine if athletes have a larger lung capacity than non-athletes. I hypothesized athletes, because of their consistent aerobic activ…
CSEF · 2004
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine if there is an advantage for a female Liriomyza trifolii to mate more than once. The null hypothesis was there will be no advan…
CSEF · 2004
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine the effects of exercise on peak flow readings on non-asthmatic human beings. Methods/Materials Using 4 human subjects, peak flo…
CSEF · 2004
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals Our objective is to find out which color is dominant between black and white mice. Methods/Materials For our procedure, we gathered the materials. We set up cages with beddi…
CSEF · 2004
Zoology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to prove that steelhead trout could detect magnetic fields. I wanted to train them to have a conditioned response between a 90-degree change in the magnetic…
CSEF · 2004
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals Mozart affects the firing patterns in the mammalian columnar cortex, used in spatial-temporal (ST) reasoning. An animal model of the #generalized Mozart effect#--enhanced hi…