kid+sci+fair+page

(here I list all their names and have them link a new page from their names - this new page will have each students' individual science fair work)

Some examples from my students:

Step 1: Off the top of your head, list 5 - 10 things you are interested in (science-related or not)

Kid1:
 * sports
 * cooking
 * gardening
 * music
 * animals
 * reading
 * doctor who
 * tardegrades
 * jokes
 * mind puzzles

Kid2:
 * fuzzy socks
 * heated blankets
 * marshmallows
 * baking
 * rock candy
 * ice cream & sorbet

Kid3:
 * Blow stuff up - fire
 * music
 * electricity
 * radio
 * llamas-cats-frogs-squirrel monkeys
 * animal learning
 * cooking
 * microwave
 * how things crystallize

Step 2: Write up three possible ideas for a science fair project (you are not committing to any of these yet). Make sure they are safe, inexpensive and realistic for our classroom and time frame (2 months).

What kind of enviroment makes fruits rot faster **Independent Variable** (the variable I set up): the fruit and the place Things I need to control: temperature, location (indoor, outdoor), dampness, surroundings Brief idea for experiment / presentation: take something like apples, put one outside, one inside, one wet, one dry, one warm, one cold, etc. and see which rots faster. Any links with more background information:
 * Dependent Variable ** (what I will measure): how much bacteria or rotting happened

Question: How do you make glow sticks? Do they last longer than normal glow-sticks?


 * Independent Variable ** : same color. same environment.


 * Dependent Variable ** : Time that they glow

Things I need to control: start time

Brief idea for experiment / presentation: make glowstick(except for last ingredient). crack glow stick and add last ingredient at same time. Leave over night. Check in morning. judge

Any links with more background information: Glow

Question: Which material tube does a neodymium magnet fall through the slowest and quickest.


 * Independent Variable ** (the variable I set up): The material that the tube's made of.


 * Dependent Variable ** (what I will measure): How long it takes a neodymium magnet to fall through each tube.

Things I need to control:The same length and and diameter of the tubes.

Brief idea for experiment / presentation: I would get 4 tubes of the same length and diameter but made of different materials (plastic, steel, copper, and aluminum). Then I would time how long it would take for a neodymium magnet to fall through each tube about 10 times and record my data for each one.

Any links with more background information: [|Abracadabra! Levitating with Eddy Currents!]