Weather Science Fair Projects, Revised and Expanded Using the Scientific Method

What percentage of air is oxygen? What factors affect water evaporation? How do clouds form? Using easy-to-find materials and the scientific method, you can learn the answers to these questions and more. If you are interested in competing in science fairs, the book contains lots of great suggestions and ideas for further experiments about weather.

What percentage of air is oxygen? What factors affect water evaporation? How do clouds form? Using easy-to-find materials and the scientific method, you can learn the answers to these questions and more. If you are interested in competing in science fairs, the book contains lots of great suggestions and ideas for further experiments about weather.

Children's Literature

The scientific method is the approach used by scientists when they ask questions, come up with possible answers, and devise experiments to test their theories. Students can be scientists and ask questions too. There are special guidelines for student scientists, especially if they want to enter a science fair. The possible answer or hypothesis must be clear and briefly stated to give a student scientist's project a good possibility of success. The next step is to design and conduct the experiment to test the hypothesis. The scientific method dictates careful record keeping. It may be necessary to repeat an experiment several times to make sure the data is consistent. This publication includes twenty-eight activities that all relate to weather; such as how to make weather instruments, bending light like a rainbow, measuring humidity with a hygrometer, and making a cloud. These experiments are well documented with a question, a hypothesis, materials, a procedure, and a conclusion. Simple illustrations accompany each experiment. Fourteen of these experiments are especially appropriate for science fairs. Reviewer: Kristin Harris