Ideas for Science Project :)

[Shunsin no Shisui]

Hey there scientists of NB Im thinking of a science project which is not too advanced and can be completed within 6 weeks. I've been researching on my own and so I only managed to get a few ideas like: measuring the time of fruit rotting, plant growth in different conditions and founding out which hand wash is most effective. Yah, that's not much It has to be safe and realistic. I should also be able to collect data from the project.

So you think you guys can help me? (Please give a serious idea )

 

[Supreme x Uchiha]

Lmao. I haven't done one of those since 6th grade..

 

[xjimbox]

I know for my science project I made a magnet levitate using its own magnetic field... Not to hard just need a lot of magnets Lolz

Still can't believe I made something float and made second place with it.... The guy who got first did something with coke cans ageing faster with different liquids...


I never forgot that loss... :scorps:

 

[Souji]

Do some chemistry! See what materials dissolve in certain solvents (bleach, lemon juice, etc). Use a variety of different materials!

 

[Shunsin no Shisui]

I know for my science project I made a magnet levitate using its own magnetic field... Not to hard just need a lot of magnets Lolz

Awwssomee! Please elaborate and explain how you did it?

 

[GwemBaba]

Does the presence of Cigarette smoke affect the growth of plants?

 

[Arian]

the influence of insomnia to your own body during everyday situations^^ i once did that..after the 2nd night i started hallucinating lol was kinda funny. felt drunk for like 4 days xD

 

[Crow.]

You could try using a potato to power lightbulbs.

Did you know you could power a light bulb with a potato? The chemical reactions that take place between two dissimilar metals and the juices in the potato create a small amount of voltage that can power a very small electrical device [source: MadSci]. Follow the instructions below to make a potato-powered light bulb.
Materials:
A large potato
Two pennies
Two zinc-plated nails
Three pieces of copper wire
A very small light bulb or LED light
What you need to do:
Cut the potato in half, then cut a small slit into each half, large enough to slide a penny inside.
Wrap some copper wire around each penny a few times. Use a different piece of wire for each penny.
Stick the pennies in the slits you cut into the potato halves.
Wrap some of the third copper wire around one of the zinc-plated nails and stick the nail into one of the potato halves.
Take the wire connected to the penny in the half of potato with the nail and wrap some of it around the second nail. Stick that second nail into the other potato half.
When you connect the two loose ends of the copper wires to the light bulb or LED it will light up

 

[Yusuke Urameshi]

For mine, I just grew plants with water, Gatorade, and pop, to see which one grew the best. That's really easy.

 

[xjimbox]

Awwssomee! Please elaborate and explain how you did it?

Well it's been 5 years I don't remember everything and it gets a prety expensive

 

[Hypemaster]

I remember in elementary school I did mine on 3 types of cheeses to see which one lasts the longest, where every week I take a picture of it to see any signs of mold bacteria, etc. Bit of advise, pepper-jack isn't a good choice especially since it has a bunch of stuff on the cheese in the first place.

 

[GreyWizard93]

Do some chemistry! See what materials dissolve in certain solvents (bleach, lemon juice, etc). Use a variety of different materials!

Something like this but with food\items that everyone uses.
Make it so your class can relate to it because when you can relate to something it is more interesting.

 

[Detective L]

You could try using a potato to power lightbulbs.

Did you know you could power a light bulb with a potato? The chemical reactions that take place between two dissimilar metals and the juices in the potato create a small amount of voltage that can power a very small electrical device [source: MadSci]. Follow the instructions below to make a potato-powered light bulb.
Materials:
A large potato
Two pennies
Two zinc-plated nails
Three pieces of copper wire
A very small light bulb or LED light
What you need to do:
Cut the potato in half, then cut a small slit into each half, large enough to slide a penny inside.
Wrap some copper wire around each penny a few times. Use a different piece of wire for each penny.
Stick the pennies in the slits you cut into the potato halves.
Wrap some of the third copper wire around one of the zinc-plated nails and stick the nail into one of the potato halves.
Take the wire connected to the penny in the half of potato with the nail and wrap some of it around the second nail. Stick that second nail into the other potato half.
When you connect the two loose ends of the copper wires to the light bulb or LED it will light up

Try this man,it sounds awesome xd

 

[Crow.]

Something like this but with food\items that everyone uses.
Make it so your class can relate to it because when you can relate to something it is more interesting.

Like I said, potato light.

 

[ItzShowtime]

i remember doing how fast you can grow sugar crystals with a stick in sugar water or something like that

 

[Fountain]

Great start, Good luck with whatever kind of research you're doing. Science can be really interresting and important... *_*

As kid i always wanted to become a scientist, unfortunately i'm just not smart enough, it requires a lot of concentration and intelligence :| plus a good education.

 

[Shunsin no Shisui]

the influence of insomnia to your own body during everyday situations^^ i once did that..after the 2nd night i started hallucinating lol was kinda funny. felt drunk for like 4 days xD

Thank you but I don't think that would be safe. U_U

You could try using a potato to power lightbulbs.

Did you know you could power a light bulb with a potato? The chemical reactions that take place between two dissimilar metals and the juices in the potato create a small amount of voltage that can power a very small electrical device [source: MadSci]. Follow the instructions below to make a potato-powered light bulb.
Materials:
A large potato
Two pennies
Two zinc-plated nails
Three pieces of copper wire
A very small light bulb or LED light
What you need to do:
Cut the potato in half, then cut a small slit into each half, large enough to slide a penny inside.
Wrap some copper wire around each penny a few times. Use a different piece of wire for each penny.
Stick the pennies in the slits you cut into the potato halves.
Wrap some of the third copper wire around one of the zinc-plated nails and stick the nail into one of the potato halves.
Take the wire connected to the penny in the half of potato with the nail and wrap some of it around the second nail. Stick that second nail into the other potato half.
When you connect the two loose ends of the copper wires to the light bulb or LED it will light up

For mine, I just grew plants with water, Gatorade, and pop, to see which one grew the best. That's really easy.

Thank you for your ideas guys but they seem too easy to be completed within 6 weeks.

Well it's been 5 years I don't remember everything and it gets a prety expensive

Damn, please try and remember if you can.

 

[Gatsuuga]

Some ones that I did was

• Effect of radiation on plant growth: grow some plants to seedling stage then put them in the microwave for various set times. Measure the amount of growth that occurs after.
• Petroleum jelly and leaves: You get celery sticks and place 40 inside a cup containing blue food dye (use a toothpick to stabilize them). Divide your celeries into groups of 20 then cover one groups leaves with petroleum jelly then put them all in the sun for 5 hours. Cut them in half then measure how much dye has been sucked up by the celery stalks. Because the petroleum blocks the pores of the leaves they can't breath and thus the dye shouldn't be sucked up as much.
• Effect of caffeine on reaction time: This one may not be age appropriate but you can feed people rum (or any alchohol) and cola. Between your test subjects give some decaffeinated cola and some caffeinated (but don't tell them what they get). Get a ruler and hold it just above their hands, drop it and measure the distance for them to catch it (i.e. where they grabbed the ruler). The alchohol should slow reaction time, but the caffeine should counter it. So the caffeinated people should be faster then the decaf group, but maybe slower or faster then people that were only given decaf to drink (no alcohol).

 

[Shunsin no Shisui]

I remember in elementary school I did mine on 3 types of cheeses to see which one lasts the longest, where every week I take a picture of it to see any signs of mold bacteria, etc. Bit of advise, pepper-jack isn't a good choice especially since it has a bunch of stuff on the cheese in the first place.

Thank you for the interesting idea.

Something like this but with food\items that everyone uses.
Make it so your class can relate to it because when you can relate to something it is more interesting.

Thanks.

Great start, Good luck with whatever kind of research you're doing. Science can be really interresting and important... *_*

As kid i always wanted to become a scientist, unfortunately i'm just not smart enough, it requires a lot of concentration and intelligence :| plus a good education.

Thank you for the encouragement. I wish you good luck for the future.

Some ones that I did was

• Effect of radiation on plant growth: grow some plants to seedling stage then put them in the microwave for various set times. Measure the amount of growth that occurs after.
• Petroleum jelly and leaves: You get celery sticks and place 40 inside a cup containing blue food dye (use a toothpick to stabilize them). Divide your celeries into groups of 20 then cover one groups leaves with petroleum jelly then put them all in the sun for 5 hours. Cut them in half then measure how much dye has been sucked up by the celery stalks. Because the petroleum blocks the pores of the leaves they can't breath and thus the dye shouldn't be sucked up as much.
• Effect of caffeine on reaction time: This one may not be age appropriate but you can feed people rum (or any alchohol) and cola. Between your test subjects give some decaffeinated cola and some caffeinated (but don't tell them what they get). Get a ruler and hold it just above their hands, drop it and measure the distance for them to catch it (i.e. where they grabbed the ruler). The alchohol should slow reaction time, but the caffeine should counter it. So the caffeinated people should be faster then the decaf group, but maybe slower or faster then people that were only given decaf to drink (no alcohol).

Thank you very much for taking your time.

 

[Aim64C]

So you think you guys can help me? (Please give a serious idea )

Sometimes, the 'hard' sciences are paid so much attention and done ad-naussiem with little variation from year to year (how many baking soda volcanoes and bread mold experiments are there?)

There are other, 'softer' sciences - such as the social sciences. You could, for example, do an internet experiment probing how different communities react to different topics or polls. ... You could make it simple: "More males role-play female characters in video games that allow gender selection than females role-play males." - then test the hypothesis through a series of polls.

You could even form distinctions between different communities. "Anime forums are likely to see a higher percentage of males role-playing females than tech forums (such as Anandtech, AMD developer boards, etc).

Now - with such polling, you would have to acknowledge the limitations of polling accuracy and discuss limitations or artifacts in your sampling methods (as well as what measures you took to reduce such things) - but you can end up with a very interesting science project that will not be a rehash of the same-old.

You could also try more personal things - such as greeting people in a store or a range of environments, documenting the reactions of people as you varied your clothing or manner of speech.

It's important, with each of these, that you research doing proper controls and how to do a proper discussion and conclusion of your project... but these are often low-cost projects that are also rather straight-forward and simple (they just require the initiative and a level head to set them up).

Or you could do what I did and build a gauss rifle and/or rail gun.