Expert: Ralph Salier-Hellendag - 1/18/2005

Question
what to do for a science fair project help


Answer
derek,

This is a big question.  What are your areas of interest? Are you interested in bugs, plants, chemistry, physics, psychology?  How about doing an experiment where you take brine shrimp (sea monkeys) and following all of the directions you change their environment.  Keep one tank on normal day/night cycle and the other tank you have only day light (using a day light lamp at night).  Or perhaps one tank has caffeine in it to test the reaction to caffeine. Or may be you want to grow some plants one group in soil and the other hydroponically. You then measure the speed of germination and growth.  Then when you are done, you can plant them outside and have vegies for your salad.

If you are interested in electricity and what it can do, you can make a series of clocks using different fruits and vegies and see which one lasts the longest.  Can anything be infered from how long it lasts?  Make sure that you use the same sized anodes and cathodes!

How about an experiment with maglev? Magnetic Levitation.