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Elementary School - Grades 4-6
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P=Project E=Experiment
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How Vehicles Affect the pH Properties of Snow
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Pull a car with water power
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Build your own solar toys (cars and boats)
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How to reduce car air pollution
[P]
Determine if car exhaust has a detrimental effect on seedlings and germination rate.
[E]
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Build a solar toy car and explain its operation.
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Middle School - Grades 7-9
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P=Project E=Experiment
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Why hydrogen cars?
[P]
Determine if there is a difference in the amount of carbon dioxide in car exhaust emitted from the use of the 3 different gas grades to find which gas grade people should use to emit the least carbon dioxide possible as the problem of global warming becomes more severe.
[E]
Determine how much gasoline is consumed by vehicles while idling at drive-thru restaurants in the state of California.
[E]
Which location in town has the most pollution?
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Can Urea Reduce Small Engine Pollution?
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Find out the most efficient speed at which to run a Light Electric Vehicle (LEV).
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Research the effectiveness of rubberized asphalt as a traffic noise mitigation measure.
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If air pollution is measured in four different locations: a busy highway, a mountain home, a public school, and a park, then the greatest amount of pollution will be found at the busy highway, then the school, then the park, and then the least at the mountain home.
[E]
Compare petroleum diesel to Diesel Secret Energy (DSE) in fuel consumption, motor oil cleanliness, exhaust emissions, power, and price.
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Collect data on levels of particulate air pollution, and to analyze them by distance from various traffic and industrial sources in order to draw conclusions about their causes.
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Discover if houses that are situated along the airport flight path are more susceptible to air pollution than those houses outside the flight path.
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Explore possible future cars
[P]
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How Is It Possible that by Washing Our Cars and Spraying Our Flowers, We Are Polluting Our Creeks, Streams, and Ocean?
[E]
Build a solar toy car and explain its operation.
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[P]
Compare petroleum diesel to Diesel Secret Energy (DSE) in fuel consumption, motor oil cleanliness, exhaust emissions, power, and price.
[E]
Does precipitation in your area contain acidic emissions from power plants, industries or vehicle emissions? Does the acidity of the precipitation change during the year?
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A green method of making the hydrogen necessary for running hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
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High School - Grades 10-12
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P=Project E=Experiment
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A device capable of filtering out carbon dioxide from car exhausts
[P]
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What are hybrid cars?
[E]
Examining the Effects of Organic Chemicals Present in Vehicle Exhaust on Wound Healing
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Comparing (Carbon Monoxide) CO Emissions between Hybrids and Gas-Powered Cars
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Find out whether the level of Carbon Monoxide (CO) emitted from car warm-up is hazardous to health.
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Find out if aqueous ammonia can help clean combustion engine emissions.
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Compare the effects of air pollution given off from a small sized car, a mini-SUV, and a large SUV on freeways plants.
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Examine a strategy for increasing the efficiency of trucks and reducing the toxic emissions of acetaldehyde, formaldehyde, 1,3-butadiene, and benzene.
[E]
Build a solar toy car and explain its operation.
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Use thermocouples to convert waste heat emission of internal combustion engine into useable, electrical energy.
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Compare the amounts of Carbon Dioxide in four common gas sources (human exhalation, ambient air, pure carbon dioxide, and automobile exhaust).
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Useful Links
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R=Resource
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Science Fair Projects Resources
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Environmental Sciences Resources
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Citation Guides, Style Manuals, Reference
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Safety Resources
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Environmental Sciences Fair Books
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The Orchid Grower
A Juvenile Science Adventure Novel About Orchids & Genetic Engineering
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