How do I use the Search tool?
What is the Search tool?
All Science Fair Projects offers
a very cool search tool specially designed for science fair
project ideas. This makes it possible for you to quickly
shortlist all project ideas across all topics, for your
area of interest.
You no longer have to browse through hundreds of different
sites and then go through every one of the ideas just to
short-list the ones that are useful to you.
For example, say your teacher recommends that you do a
project on solar power. Instead of slowly browsing through
hundreds of ideas, you can just enter "solar power"
into our search box, and presto - you will be shown a list
of all projects on solar power! Neat huh? Well, we'll even
show you projects that may not be directly related to solar
power, but which may still interest you as there could be
some similarity between those projects and the concept of
solar power! Each result page lists 10 projects. You can
use the arrows at the bottom of the search page to go to
the next 10 results.
What exactly is being searched when I enter a keyword?
What we've done is to make it possible for you to do a
keyword search on the following:
- the Project Title
- the Project Description
- the actual content (including the project hypothesis,
ingredients, instructions and explanation of results)
Our Search tool will automatically look into all 3 of the
above for your keyword. If you want to restrict the search
to only the Project Description and the actual content,
then you will have to perform an advanced search.
How do I access the Search feature?
To access the search feature, you can either:
- Go to our homepage and enter your keywords in the search
box
OR
- Click on "Search" on the menu bar near
the top-right of the screen. Then enter your keywords
in the search box
How do I perform an advanced Search?
- If you used the search box on our homepage, then the
advanced search box will appear above your first search
results
- If you clicked on "Search" on the
menu bar near the top-right of the screen, then you will
be brought directly to the advanced search box.
There, you can specify the following options:
Category
You can restrict the search to a particular category
eg. Biology, or a sub-category eg. Biology>Botany.
If you don't touch this option, we will search across
all categories.
Type
If you enter more than 1 word in the search box,
choosing "Any word" will show projects
containing any of the words that you entered.
Choosing "All Words" will show projects
containing all of the words that you entered, regardless
of the order in which these words appear in the project.
Eg. a search for "solar power" produces
the following projects:
- Does the angle at which the Sun's rays fall on
a solar cell affect the power that's produced?
I think that if the solar cell is placed perpendicular
to the sun's rays, the power going to the
cell will be maximized.
- How does a change in temperature affect the current,
voltage and power generated by a solar
cell? The purpose of this experiment was to determine
how different temperatures affected the voltage
(mV), the current (mA), and the power (watt) generation
of a solar cell.
Notice how the word "solar" appears
before "power" in the first but not
the second result?
Where
"In title and description only"
- if you select this option, only the Project title
and Description will be searched for the keyword.
"All content including main project page"
- if you select this option, then the Project title,
Description as well as the entire content (including
the hypothesis, instructions, ingredients and explanations)
will be searched
Difficulty
You can limit the search to a particular difficulty
level (ie:elementary, middle or high school).
If you don't touch this option, we will search across
all levels of difficulty.
How do I sort the search results?
You can sort the search results by each Project's Title,
Category or Difficulty. Go to the sort menu that appears
above the search results.
Then, click on your choice. By clicking yet again on
the same choice, you will reverse the order of the results.
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