Log and Project Inspiration
These links may provide you with ideas and sources for reflective logs and research projects. If you find others, send me an email and I will add it to the list.
Links to science and engineering competition past winners. These may inspire ideas as well.
Science Fair Project ideas: http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_ideas.shtml?From=body Choose the hardest level! Remember that these don't have a much of a reason for studying them, but they might be a good place to start. (You might be able to alter a project to have good social importance.)
- National Public Radio - Science Friday. http://sciencefriday.com/
- New York Times Science Page http://www.nytimes.com/pages/science/index.html
- Science. This is the website of a very reputable journal. http://www.sciencemag.org/
- Nature. This is the website of another very reputable journal. The reading can be challenging. Also try their free podcasts if you don't want to read. http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html
- Newsweek Magazine Science Page http://www.newsweek.com/tag/science.html
- Science News. http://www.sciencenews.org/
- Science Daily. http://www.sciencedaily.com/
- Yahoo's Summary of Science Articles http://news.yahoo.com/science
- The latest news about physics discoveries http://www.physics.org/
- The latest news about chemistry discoveries http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content
- Popular Science Magazine http://www.popsci.com/
Links to science and engineering competition past winners. These may inspire ideas as well.
- Intel Science and Engineering Competition
- MIT InventTeams Engineering Competition http://web.mit.edu/inventeams/formerinventeams.html
- Siemens Competition http://www.siemens-foundation.org/en/competition/2010_winners.htm
Science Fair Project ideas: http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_ideas.shtml?From=body Choose the hardest level! Remember that these don't have a much of a reason for studying them, but they might be a good place to start. (You might be able to alter a project to have good social importance.)