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Elementary School - Grades 4-6
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Discover how elite biathlon athletes can perform in different heart rate zones to create an accurate shot in the gun range.
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Determine the effect of exercise on a critical brain function: memory.
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Test if you can increase jumping distance by increasing the running distance before the jump.
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Test if the height of a person is related to their walking pace, and if this information can be used to estimate the height of a person.
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Could I improve the health of my heart by doing more exercise?
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An Investigation Into How Exercise Affects the Heart Rate
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The Effect of Exercise on Blood Pressure
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Middle School - Grades 7-9
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P=Project E=Experiment
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A Virtual Science fair on Gatorade (a sports drink)
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Investigate whether or not a sports drink provides more electrolytes than orange juice.
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Determine how body position affects baseball speed.
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Determine if healthy eating has an effect on physical fitness.
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The Effect of Sports Drinks on Blood Pressure and Heart Rate as a Measure of Athletic Performance
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Is Swim Sprint Time Faster with Normal or Reduced Breathing?
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Determine how American students score on a Japanese physical fitness exam.
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Compare the power impact of different martial arts kicks.
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Explore how changing your center of gravity affects how well you can balance.
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Which type of turn—tight, medium, or wide—is best in speed skating.
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Measure your average heart rate during different types of activities.
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Determine if the ball's starting position for shooting a basketball affects a player's shooting percentage.
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Determine whether athletes have faster heart rate recovery times than non-athletes.
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An Investigation to Find out the Effect of Different Levels of Exercise on the Amount of Oxygen Used by the body
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How do sports drinks affect reaction time?
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Does adrenaline affect athletic performance?
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Determine if Body Mass Index relates to physical fitness level as determined by the Harvard Step Test.
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The effect of weight training on the accuracy of throwing a football
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What type of exercises makes people produce the most carbon dioxide?
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The effects of jet lag on east and west coast baseball teams
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Determine if regular exercise has a effect on the amount of air your lungs can take in.
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The Effect of Exercise on Blood Pressure and Pulse Rate
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Determine if tall people run faster than short people.
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Resting, Exercising and Blood Pressure
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The Effect of Athlete's Heart Syndrome on Pulse Pressure
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The Effects of Various Sports Supplements on the Heart Rate of Daphnia magna
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Will There Be an Increase in a Soccer Player's Calf Size and Kicking Distance after 8 Weeks of Training?
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Does Exercise Affect Weight?
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Determine the relationship between the bicep muscle size, forearm length, and the ability to develop force, by calculating the amount of torque created.
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Do pysiological attributes matter when wakeboarding or snowboarding? Or is it all experience?
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Figure out the relationship between height and agility.
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Determining the Development and Transferability of Bacteria from One Piece of Athletic Equipment to Another
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Determine if higher caffeine content in an energy drink increases heart rate the most.
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Find out if there is any relationship between the higher test scores in the Data Management and Probability strand of math and a specific sport (hockey and volleyball).
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Determine the most effective stress management techniques out of the four possibilities (meditation, controlled breathing, visualization, and relaxation music) for athletes
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Why does junior tennis have such a high injury rate?
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The Effect of Massage Therapy on Blood Pressure
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Measuring Human Horsepower
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Determine if a controlled diet and exercise will lower blood glucose levels and reduce the amount of insulin requirements of a type 1 diabetic.
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High School - Grades 10-12
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P=Project E=Experiment
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Utility of the Spatial Peaks QRS-T Angle in Distinguishing Left Ventricular Hypertrophy from Athletic Heart Syndrome
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Which type of recovery, active or passive, will facilitate better performance of high-intensity interval 50-freestyle sprints by adolescent competitive swimmers?
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Which swimming turn is the most efficient for the transition between Backstroke to Breaststroke: the "Dropdown" turn, the "Swivel" turn, or the "Flip" turn?
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The Effect of Body Mass Index (BMI), Leg Length, and VO2 Max on Ergometer Scores in Males and Females
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Finger Length Linked to Female Athletic Ability
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What Makes Michael Phelps So Good? Do his body shape and flexibility give eight-gold-medal winner Phelps a competitive advantage?
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Determine whether crossed hand/eye dominance helps or hurts when shooting basketball free throws.
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Measure how the initial launch angle of a golf ball affects how far the ball travels.
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Measure changes in carbon dioxide levels in exhaled air before and after physical exercise.
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The Effect of Body Symmetry on Athletic Ability
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Test whether or not the circumference of each person's thigh, will affect the amount of force that each participant applies to a ball.
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Muscle Enhancement: Bodybuilding and Supplement Intake
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The Effects of Various Exercises on the Cardiovascular System
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Science Fair Projects Resources
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