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Primary School - Grades K-3
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P=Project E=Experiment
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My Dog Kelly
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Determine which type, brand, or flavor of pet treats a pet prefers.
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How your dog's respiration rate is affected by active play.
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Which treat German Shepherd dogs like best and whether the price matters
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Interdisciplinary Topic: Dogs
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Elementary School - Grades 4-6
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P=Project E=Experiment
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What percent of the street dogs have homes and what percent do not have homes?
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Determine which toy most excites a pet both physically and mentally.
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How Long Does It Take to Train Your Pet?
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Determine the percentage of overweight pets among the cats and dogs you know.
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Determine the best way to keep your dog's teeth clean and to have a "fresh" breath.
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How Much Do Different Pet Species Eat Compared to Each Other?
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Discover what types of smells are most interesting to dogs.
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What Type of Music Affects My Dog's Mood?
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Test various dog toys to find out which type is most appealing to your dog.
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Find out if growth rates are different among a puppy's weight, height, length, paw size and selected bones during the early months of life.
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Investigate dogs brains and their senses
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Does Dog Saliva Kill Bacteria?
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Train your dog for the science fair.
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Are dogs right or left pawed?
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What color can dogs see best?
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Dog training using operant conditioning
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Do canines or humans have more bacteria in their mouths?
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Which has the highest mouth pH level - dogs, cats or humans?
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Explore Kittens
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Interdisciplinary Topic: Dogs
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Middle School - Grades 7-9
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P=Project E=Experiment
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Can people accurately read dogs’ facial expressions?
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How Puppies Keep Warm: determine how much huddling reduces heat loss in warm-blooded animals.
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Determine the best tick prevention and removal methods available on the market.
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Research the role of dogs in science
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Which Dog Food Is Digested Better?
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Can a cat be positively identified from its paw prints?
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Which gender of dog is the smartest?
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Dog Color Genetics
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Why does my dog howl when I play certain songs on my viola?
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Determine whether cats respond preferentially to familiar bird sounds.
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Measure canine intelligence with some simple behavioral tests.
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Determine whether non-primate mammals (e.g., dogs or cats) have a paw preference, which might indicate lateralization of function in the brain.
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Determine if dermatophytes (fungi that typically grow on skin structures) and yeasts colonize the claw tissue of healthy dogs.
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Domestic Cat (Felis catus) Responses to Bird Sounds
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Determine whether White Coat Hypertension (WCH) occurs in dogs when they visit the veterinary hospital.
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Does Dog Saliva Kill Bacteria?
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Why some types of dog foods are more popular than the rest. Is it because they are better tasting, healthier or just because they are the cheapest?
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Determine at what age cats will recover from anesthetics fastest when spayed/neutered, younger or older
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Can You Teach a Dog to Read?
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Determine which of a dog's sense of sight, smell, or hearing has the greatest effect on its short term memory.
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Test whether artificial light affects the sleeping habits of domestic dogs.
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Roundworms and Hookworms, Year Two: Prevalence in Shelter Puppies
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It is said that a dog's mouth is cleaner than a human mouth, is it true?
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Which color moving object in a dog's peripheral vision will distract it the fastest?
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Are dogs color blind?
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Assessing canine hearing loss
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Are domestic dogs and wolves similar in their hierarchical behaviors?
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Do Dogs and Hamsters think and learn differently?
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Investigate the domestic cat.
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Find out if more cats are right-pawed, left-pawed, or ambidextrous.
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Interdisciplinary Topic: Dogs
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High School - Grades 10-12
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P=Project E=Experiment
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Research how dogs use barks to communicate.
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Which dermatophytes colonize the canine claw and examine whether immunocompromised dogs are more likely than healthy dogs to colonize dermatophytes.
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Investigate whether or not culture (dog's owner) has an effect on brain hemisphere dominance in dogs.
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Determine how much a dog's age affects their understanding of a spatial relationship between objects.
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Dog Tail Wagging and Brain Lateralization
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Interdisciplinary Topic: Dogs
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Useful Links
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R=Resource
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Science Fair Projects Resources
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Dog Resources
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Zoology Resources
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Citation Guides, Style Manuals, Reference
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Safety Resources
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Zoology Science Fair Books
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