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 · 2005
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to figure out how a pre-teen's or teenager's own physical features affect his/her choices on what's attractive on the opposite sex. Methods/Materials Firstl…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Piaget said that 6&7 year old children were able to conserve number. My objective was to find out if 50% or more of 6&7 year old children conserve number. Methods/Materials…
CSEF · 2005
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to determine whether the genre of a motion picture has a measurable impact on a moviegoer's popcorn consumption. Methods/Materials I reviewed…
CSEF · 2005
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this science experiment was to study group accuracy, and how a group#s average compares to expert judgment. Methods/Materials Four containers were filled with…
CSEF · 2005
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if and why people answer ringing public payphones. I believe that people will only answer if they are attempting to use the phone and find it r…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to see whether or not people today prefer the Pythagorean system of tuning to the currently used Equal-Tempered system. The Pythagorean system, or slight va…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals In the current educational system, students who are highly modal learners miss out on a portion of their education. One feasible solution offered to this dilemma is for the…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals This experiment was conducted to see if certain words are more easily identifiable through lip reading than others. The hypothesis was that some words formed on the lips are…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals My project was focused on which tools would help people remember things best. Through my research on many memory topics, I have found that visuals usually helped a person re…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals I did this project to find out how isolated eyes within a set of eyes process information. I thought the isolated eyes would process information differently because when I a…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals My project was about irritating noises. I wanted to see what combinations of two tones were perceived as irritating by a human subject. My hypothesis was that high pitched c…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals To determine if your mind will confuse skin sensations of hot and cold to produce a false sensation of pain (neuropathic pain). Methods/Materials I did two experiments. In e…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine the effects of physical appearance on personal approachability. We hypothesized that physical appearance would affect people'…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Students are often encouraged by parents and teachers to eat a healthy breakfast before taking tests. This study attempted to determine if eating a good breakfast improves a…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals This project was to determine which of the five scents, lavender, vanilla, white musk, lavender, and citrus, would help males and females remember the most amount of words.…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals I tried to find out in which areas the human ears best locate a given sound. I chose 12 different areas around the person being tested. Methods/Materials For each test I bee…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals To see if people can tell the difference between a soy based food product and an animal based food product. Methods/Materials Materials 1. Alta-Dena 1% Cow's Milk 2. Horizon…
CSEF · 2005
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I started this project with the question, "Does birth order affect someone's personality. I hypothesized that our persoanlity is affected by our birth position in the family…
CSEF · 2005
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I did this project because I think people are stereotyped for reasons such as one gender drives faster than the other, their parents do, or one gender has a different person…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment was to determine if a person's genetic tasting abilities affect their decision to smoke tobacco. Methods/Materials Forty-three human subjects…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most socially significant diseases in older people. The goal of this project is to establish the effect of Alzheimer's disease on visu…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective was to determine of suggestion can distort a person#s memory of a picture (called the suggestibility effect), if source-monitoring tests can reduce that effect…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals This project explores the impact of aging and color on visual memory. This work was based upon a previous study which I did last year, which concluded colored objects were r…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Previously, I have done projects concerning human behavior. I found people to be difficult subjects to use because the many variables involved with them. I moved into a subj…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals To test how people's daily behaviors will be effected if given a certain amount of information, in this case, water conservation. Methods/Materials Collecting data and resea…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals There are many superstitions and beliefs that there are, in fact, more car accidents during a full moon. I evaluated whether the moon's effect on drivers is just a myth or a…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to see if playing video games causes a significant change in blood pressure, which theoretically could lead to future health problems. If stu…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine how different types of background music affect memorization skills of high school students. A prior study involving only class…
CSEF · 2005
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My experimental objective was to determine whether gender plays a role in the ability to create a 3D object from a 2D representation. Methods/Materials Materials: 150 2 x 4…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if visual acuity with and without corrective lenses affects the perception of hidden 3-d images. Methods/Materials Potential subjects were scre…