Finding a Good Question to base your Science Project on

A science project is essentially a series of experiments that help you prove or disprove a theory that you have about a certain question that you or someone else may have asked you. This question that you are trying to answer is the crux of your science fair project.

This means that finding a good question to base your science fair project on is very important. So how do you get this all important question. There are two ways that you can come up with scientific questions – observational research and co-relational research.Observational research is also known as ethnography.

It essentially means observing behavior to see if what people say they will do is actually what they will do. Here we will come up with questions based on the difference between what is expected to happen in a certain situation and what will actually happen.A large variety of scientific experiments can be based on this concept of ethnography.

Pick an experiment that can be repeated often under a variety of conditions and you can form a pretty good hypothesis based on it. Here your question will seek to answer if the results to the experiment change with the change in the conditions under which it is performed. This will generate enough data for a full fledged science fair project.