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 · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine if a person's reading comprehension is greater when reading written material on paper or from a computer screen. I believe tha…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my science project was to determine if people respond more quickly to visual or auditory stimuli. My hypothesis was that people would respond faster to a tone…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our goal is to reduce the fear of our subjects by exposing them to their fear of archnophobia. Methods/Materials A video of spiders A book full with pictures of spiders. A d…
CSEF · 2002
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I created this experiment to observe the difference between male and female's fears, where they originated from, and who is psychologically stronger in a sense of facing the…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Question: Which gender, grade, and ethnicity have the most stress? In school we found out that the lots of students had stress and we wanted to see which group had the most…
CSEF · 2002
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine the effect of positive or negative feedback by a group of peers, on performance. The feedback (support) is of a personal nature, and unrelated to…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if your sight has an effect on your taste. Methods/Materials I selected 30 volunteers that liked the taste of ketchup and were not color blind…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if there is a difference between teh reading level of second graders and third graders as determined by the Oral Diagnostic Reading Tests from…
CSEF · 2002
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Our objective was to determine if there is a negative correlation between TV watching and grade point average amongst 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students. Methods/Materials We…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Scientists have been conducting experiments on rats for a long time. In the first half of the 20th century, scientists concentrated on understanding the physiology of rats.…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective was to discover if first graders have better listening comprehension when viewing an illustration while listening to a story. Methods/Materials A short story,…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals To test the hypothesis that humans are able to postpone their own death until after some landmark occasion, in this case their own birthday. Methods/Materials I wrote a Perl…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to test the Let#s Make A Deal Game Show Paradox. Let#s Make A Deal was a 1970's game show problem where a person picked a door and then was gi…
CSEF · 2002
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Which part of the day receives the most spam? Which e-mail account gets the most spam? Is there a quantifiable difference between subscribed spam vs. non-subscribed spam? Me…
CSEF · 2002
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Does the average amount of weeknight sleep an eighth grade student get, effect his/her academic performance in school? Methods/Materials 1. Make a survey to collect data on…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project, was to determine which sex has greater levels of "mate guarding" (jealousy) in a relationship. Methods/Materials Informed consent was obtained f…
CSEF · 2002
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project was a survey to see if red food in a meal would make the meal more visually appealing. I believe that the meals with red food in them will be more instantaneously…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Can birds learn to recognize the position of a food hole or patterns in food holes on a food board and can they apply this knowledge intelligently to new environments? I bel…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of the project was to determine how many factors a person could store in short term memory and the correlation between the difficulty and the accuracy of doing…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to discover whether or not action movies had an effect on children#s blood pressure. The change in blood pressure was also compared between b…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals I wanted to see if the amount of a person's musical training and background affects their recognition of several different electronic musical instruments (MIDIs). Methods/Ma…
CSEF · 2002
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I intended to show that music does affect your grades. Methods/Materials 1. research info. on music and the brain 2. identify criteria for surveys 3. assemble a variety of q…
CSEF · 2002
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment is to determine which middle school grade- 6th, 7th or 8th- is most influenced by what they perceive as their peers# opinions. Methods/Materia…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals By studying Piagetian psychology, an interview form was set up to test two different age groups and enable how the thinking patterns change as the child grows. Methods/Mater…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals There are several ways of teaching language. This experiment examined the use of verbal teaching versus using imagery. The hypothesis is that the use of imagery would enhanc…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Most sport spectators like to cheer for their favorite team. Do the individual athletes perform better when they hear the "positive reinforcement" of a cheering crowd? Knowi…
CSEF · 2002
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My onjective for this project was to figure out whether girls or boys are more influenced by peer pressure. Methods/Materials 8 3# by 5# white flashcards (no lines on either…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals I think each time a rat would go through a maze, the running time would be faster than the previous time. Each rat will learn to go through each new maze easier and faster e…
CSEF · 2002
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if people from non-literate societies have better memories than people from literate societies. Methods/Materials I read a list of 16 words to…
CSEF · 2002
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our goal is the understand the brain's functions in regards to short term memory and recall. Methods/Materials Materials: Paper,pencil,computers,books,timer,red pen, glue,sc…