How to Make a GRRREAT How to Make a GRRREAT Science Fair PresentationScience Fair Presentation

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Your presentation must:Your presentation must:

First – attract attentionFirst – attract attention Second – SELL your projectSecond – SELL your project

Follow the FormulaFollow the Formula

Use a tri-fold boardUse a tri-fold board Put your title front and centerPut your title front and center Include all the components on the Include all the components on the

boardboard• HypothesisHypothesis• Materials and procedureMaterials and procedure• DataData• ResultsResults• ConclusionConclusion

Selling your StorySelling your Story

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Choose readable fonts, contrasting colors

and clear graphics

Make it easy on your audienceMake it easy on your audienceto ‘read’ your storyto ‘read’ your story

This is a good This is a good place for place for

materials and materials and procedureprocedure

You can include You can include diagrams and diagrams and pictures that pictures that demonstrate demonstrate what you did what you did

You can put your You can put your raw raw datadata herehere

Also, your Also, your abstractabstract or a brief or a brief

discussiondiscussion about about the experiment the experiment itself can be put itself can be put

herehere

E.g. I found that my first three E.g. I found that my first three models didn’t yield the results I models didn’t yield the results I

wanted and came up with a wanted and came up with a number of ideas to test but was number of ideas to test but was

limited on time.limited on time.

HypothesisHypothesis goes goes below below titletitle

Put your Put your resultsresults here here – a cool graph!– a cool graph!

And then your And then your conclusionconclusion

What Goes “Down in Front”?What Goes “Down in Front”?

The space in front of your display board can be The space in front of your display board can be

used to hold any used to hold any relatedrelated experimental items experimental items – –

• The wind generator you madeThe wind generator you made• The trial samples you created,The trial samples you created,• The labware you used, etc.The labware you used, etc.

The items should provide interest and information!The items should provide interest and information!

Also, in the space you can put your Also, in the space you can put your background paperbackground paper and/or and/or abstractabstract

CitationsCitations

No one goes it alone!No one goes it alone! You used the work of You used the work of others, in some way, to complete your others, in some way, to complete your project. Be sure to give them credit! You project. Be sure to give them credit! You can make a text box with citations to can make a text box with citations to place on your display board. Or be sure place on your display board. Or be sure they are included in your background they are included in your background paper. paper. SomeplaceSomeplace, give credit to those , give credit to those whose work you used! Need help with whose work you used! Need help with format? Go to:format? Go to:

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Here are some HintsHere are some Hints Your display is a SCIENCE project, not an art Your display is a SCIENCE project, not an art

project – make it neatproject – make it neat

Use one font throughout – you can change the Use one font throughout – you can change the size or style, but stick to one readable font – size or style, but stick to one readable font – Verdana, CVerdana, Comic sansomic sans, , Times New RomanTimes New Roman, , ArialArial etc. etc.

Choose a color scheme and stick to it – no more Choose a color scheme and stick to it – no more than three colors. than three colors. Think one main color (background), Think one main color (background),

an analogous color and a complementary color. an analogous color and a complementary color.

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Well done, Scientists! You’ve done the Well done, Scientists! You’ve done the research, now tell the story well!research, now tell the story well!

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