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Elementary School
- Grades
4,
5,
6
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P=Project E=Experiment
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Finding Your Location Using Gravity, the Earth's Magnetic Field, and a Sundial
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Determine which stars to use to navigate in each hemisphere of the globe.
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The constellations change in the night sky over different periods of time.
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Investigate constellations and some of the myths / stories behind them.
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Do the Planets Revolve Around the Earth or the Sun?
[E]
What are Cosmic Rays?
[E]
[P]
Determine the number of stars that can be seen from your local area
[E]
The sun, stars, black holes and supernovas
[E]
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[P]
Research stars' birth, life, and death.
[E]
[P]
Black holes and time
[E]
[P]
The Earth
Stars & Planets
Moon Science Fair Projects
Mars Science Fair Projects
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Middle School
- Grades
7,
8,
9
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P=Project E=Experiment
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Find out how old is a star (Monoceros R2) by using images from the Faulkes Telescope in Australia.
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Measure the distance to some distant, small objects using motion parallax.
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Use Internet-based software tools and databases to locate the center of the galaxy, based on the distribution of globular clusters.
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Are the globular clusters in our galaxy just one color, and what might we guess from this about the ages and compositions of galaxies?
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Find whether cosmic rays are affected by magnets.
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Determine if you can tell from a light curve if a variable star is a binary system.
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What is Dark Matter?
[P]
Do the Planets Revolve Around the Earth or the Sun?
[E]
Introduction to Nebulae
[E]
[P]
Find out if Saturn's moons cause the gaps in Saturn's rings.
[E]
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What Are the Effects of Weather on Star Visibility?
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Discover how many of the brightest infrared-emitting objects in an infrared sky patch are familiar objects such as stars.
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Test the stellar parallax theory, a method used to determine the relative distance of stars, through a series of observations taken on a football field.
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Measure true noon time using the sundial principle
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Calculate the circumference of the Earth.
[E]
[E]
Explore the deep space - stars and black holes
[E]
[E]
[P]
The Formation, Evolution and Death of Stars
[P]
The Earth
Stars & Planets
Moon Science Fair Projects
Mars Science Fair Projects
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High School
- Grades
10,
11,
12
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P=Project E=Experiment
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How Does Light Intensity of a Star Change with Distance?
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The Effect of Altitude on the Detection of Cosmic Rays in a Cloud Chamber
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Determine whether or not galaxies cluster, and if so, to measure that clustering.
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Extracting Oxygen from Lunar and Martian Regolith Simulant
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Research Radio Astronomy and Build an Amateur Radio Telescope
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A Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) diagram of blazar S5 0716+714 using images from the Spitzer Space Telescope, ground based optical telescopes, and a radio telescope.
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Research White Dwarfs
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Direct Detection of Dark Matter with LENS: A New Directionally Sensitive Low Energy WIMP Detector
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The Thermodynamics of the Rings of Saturn
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Simulation of terrestrial impact craters
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The Weird World of Planets in Binary Star Systems
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Adaptive Optics and Its Role in Stellar Scintillation
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Quantifying the Effect of Skyglow on the Visibility of Stars
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Analyze ultra-high energy cosmic ray showers and characterize their energies and apparent direction of origin.
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Build and demonstrate a sidereal pointer - an instrument that allows you to localize each celestial object in the night sky.
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Investigate and use parallax to determine distances
[E]
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The effects of the temperature of the universe on Black Holes as the universe ages.
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Investigate the Cosmological theory of the Big Bang
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The Earth
Stars & Planets
Moon Science Fair Projects
Mars Science Fair Projects
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Useful Links
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R=Resource
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Science Fair Projects Resources
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Astronomy Resources
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Solar System Resources
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Optics Resources
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Citation Guides, Style Manuals, Reference
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Safety Resources
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Astronomy Science Fair Books
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