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 · 2009
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine which presentation is better for learning and retention: textual or graphical? Methods/Materials Take one group and give them five minutes to m…
CSEF · 2009
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if music can actually improve short-term memory. My hypothesis is that music in the background of testing will help improve short-term memory.…
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My goal was to see if the appearance and presence of a dog of effect how much, if anything people would donate to the local SPCA. With this knowledge I can help local organi…
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The project was designed to test for (and possibly establish) a hypothetical correlation between rotational orientation of a pie graph and the ability to make an accurate es…
CSEF · 2009
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This project is created to see whether the starting age for kindergarten affects the student later in education. Methods/Materials A test is created based on the California…
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals The average American watches more than 4 hours of TV each day. In those hours we spend about one third of that time watching just commercials! These commercials basically te…
CSEF · 2009
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this study is to determine whether or not there is a difference in the short-term memory of left-handed and right-handed girls in grades five through nine in…
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals Little quantitative work has been published on electronic-mediated communication and electronic literacy. This paper hopes to identify the textual richness of representative…
CSEF · 2009
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective is to find out if visual, auditory, tactile, or a combination of these modes will best help students learn and remember. I think that the best results will be f…
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals To determine if a student's performance of a mental or physical task would be improved by offering a reward at completion. Methods/Materials Materials included permission sl…
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Multitasking describes what an individual does who is participating in more than one task simultaneously. The purpose of this project was to try to assess whether males or f…
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals To determine which groups of people are easily influenced by peer pressure through the use of a box, a laser, some survey questions; relating to their characteristics that c…
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The ability to read nutrition facts labels is crucial when choosing healthy foods. This research is trying to determine which age group, middle school students, high school…
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals What types of images convey the emotions that cause consumers to retain the information of a producer's product? Methods/Materials Test subjects were tested for average of h…
CSEF · 2009
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to discover whether different gender, musical experience and confidence will affect a child's ability to sing on pitch. I believe a girl with several years…
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Last year was an election year. I watched television commercials supporting and opposing various propositions and read arguments for and against the issues. It seemed the wo…
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals To establish whether irrationality in financial decision making is innate or develops over time; specifically, to determine whether children follow the four fold pattern(FFP…
CSEF · 2009
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to test if chewing gum helps improve memory. Methods/Materials To test this, approximately 70 to 80 middle-school students (6th, 7th, or 8…
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals It is my hypothesis that the mind has the ability,to a certain extent, to overcome limitations of the body. In this experiment there were two groups of subjects, proven and…
CSEF · 2009
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals My experiment's purpose is to see how smells can affect a person's short-term memory. Going into further depth, I will investigate which of the following smells (Vanilla, Ro…
CSEF · 2009
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to learn at what age a child could began drawing a person with all major body parts, such as head, body, arms, legs, hands, feet, neck, eyes, nose and mouth…
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals "Memory is the potential ability to recall past experiences, or the stored experience, that an individual has at his disposal" (Merit Students Encyclopedia, 1990). Many fact…
CSEF · 2009
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if gender has an effect on the Stroop Effect. Methods/Materials Informed consent was obtained from 200 students, 100 boys and 100 girls ranging…
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals By doing this experiment, I wanted to find out which teaching method helped students remember information best in the long-term. I have always wanted to know which way I sho…
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if students( e.g., the apostrophe ) processing styles (sequential versus spatial) influence their abilities to achieve high GPAs or to earn hig…
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My hypothesis is six to seven year old children in the first grade will show an improvement from their initial Attention Network Test (ANT) scores after two sessions of visu…
CSEF · 2009
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project was to see the effect of a teachers verbal statement, prior to beginning a test, on pre-teen students. Methods/Materials Students, specific math test. 7Th grade s…
CSEF · 2009
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The question was asked: Do underperforming seventh graders perform better in reading comprehension if they know they will be creating with Legos after reading the selection?…
CSEF · 2009
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to test which method of subliminal messaging is more effective in humans; audio or visual. I believed that audio stimulus containing sublim…
CSEF · 2009
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The scientist conducted the experiment to determine if bilinguals would have a faster time vs. monolinguals when taking the Stroop Effect test. The scientist believed that i…