Explore the Possibilities with Snow and Math Science Fair Projects

Are you looking for creative, original science fair project ideas? Snow and math science fair projects make for an excellent, innovative combination. Each snowflake features unique and intricately mathematical patterns that your science fair mathematical experiment could examine in depth. Here are some ideas on how to combine snow and math science fair projects.

One of the best ways to start on a science fair project involving snow is to collect actual snowflakes and examine them under a magnifying glass. It's even possible to preserve the snowflakes for future analysis once you gather them. Just prepare some microscope slides by keeping them in the freezer. Bring along some hairspray and several toothpicks, and apply the hairspray to one of the sides of the slide when you're ready to catch some snowflakes.

The snowflakes will stick to the hairspray on your slide! Then you might use the toothpick to carefully place the snowflake in the center of the slide. Then leave the slide in a cold area, away from any further snow, for a few hours. The hairspray will remove the water from the snowflake, but the flake's imprint on the slide will remain, and you will be able to look back at it for as a many times as you like, with the help of a microscope.

Snow and math science fair projects about it can delight your peers and science fair judges if you include numerous slides of snowflakes that you've preserved in your science fair project. An excellent science experiment with snowflakes would involve making a hypothesis about the kinds of mathematical shapes and patterns that are most prevalent in snowflakes, collecting a large sample of data from preserved flakes, and testing the hypothesis.

Snow and math science fair projects can be related in other ways. You can make your own authentic snowflakes with borax; these are larger flakes, but the principle of their formation is the same. Their advantage is the increased ability of observers at your science fair to notice intricacies in their design without needing to use a microscope. Borax snoflakes take only thirty minutes of work and one night of waiting to prepare.

What materials will you need to make borax snowflakes? Get one wide-mouth jar for every snowflake you plan to make; also obtain some pipe cleaners, scissors, pencils, string, water, borax, and one-cup measuring cup. Make a six-pointed star with the pipe cleaners and put it in the jar. Attach the string to the star so that you connect all the snoflake's points with one another.0

Then connect the pencil's shaft to one of the points of the newly made snowflake skeleton. Put the snowflake into the jar so that it hangs there -- just to test that it will fit. Then take the flake out, boil some water, and put it in the jar. Also add three tablespoons of borax for exery cup of water you use. Stir the borax solution in order to dissolve it.

Then all you have to do is put your snowflake into the jar so that it hangs there overnight. In the morning, you will get a pleasant surprise! Who would have expected that snow and math science fair projects could be so much fun?

Here's three other idea: (1) How about doing music-math science fair projects by playing music in a room where the snowflake is frozen and see if the crystals of the snowflake are affected. (2) See the borax snow science experiment (3) Look at the For many more experiments look at our Math Science Fair Projects Guide and then you will have an easier time finding a project!