I have many ideas...mostly simple ones. However, I'm looking to see if anyone had some good ideas. I'm a business man...not the best at this stuff. Any awesome ideas?
I have many ideas...mostly simple ones. However, I'm looking to see if anyone had some good ideas. I'm a business man...not the best at this stuff. Any awesome ideas?
I have always thought the new molecular gastronomy is great fodder for a science experiment. And free food is always fun. You could do the Maillard reaction:
Flat Earth
Make colloids from different materials and compare/contrast them to spills and liquids.
Solids and liquids
This is the problem with science fairs. At that grade, they should be able to come up with their own projects. But it is essentially a competition between parents or ambitious students versus parents. I got beat by the someone with the scientist dad. I had my own project. Go figure.
How about baking soda and vinegar put into a cylindrical structure!?
things are better now? wrote:
This is the problem with science fairs. At that grade, they should be able to come up with their own projects. But it is essentially a competition between parents or ambitious students versus parents. I got beat by the someone with the scientist dad. I had my own project. Go figure.
How about baking soda and vinegar put into a cylindrical structure!?
+1
Help her with her idea, don't have her help with yours.
Enabling the entitlement generation. Land the helicopter and let her do her own project.
Op, don't let your kid settle into the typical mainstream mindset by sanctioning the baking soda and vinegar experiment. It's been done ad nauseum before. Do something cool with her like make a rainbow, blow bubbles, use a magnifying glass and sunlight to burn paper, etc.
FYI, my comment about vinegar and baking soda with a cylindrical structure was 100% sarcastic!
They can come up with something better.
things are better now? wrote:
FYI, my comment about vinegar and baking soda with a cylindrical structure was 100% sarcastic!
They can come up with something better.
Better than a friggin volcano?!?…..I don't think so.
Anything environmental (water quality & conservation) or renewable energy related would be able to get the judges attention for progressive thinking about a new generation concerned for future increased demands on natural resources by an increasing population. Consider food production as well.
Anything environmental (water quality & conservation) or renewable energy related would be able to get the judges attention for progressive thinking about a new generation concerned for future increased demands on natural resources by an increasing population. Consider food production as well.
Have her prove that it's possible to fly to the moon with solar powered helicopter or some such sh!t.
kmaclam wrote:
things are better now? wrote:FYI, my comment about vinegar and baking soda with a cylindrical structure was 100% sarcastic!
They can come up with something better.
Better than a friggin volcano?!?…..I don't think so.
Have her determine the relationship between animals (of her choice) based on the sequence of a gene.
For example, what is more related to a dolphin a fish or a cow ? Other good ones may be a bird, a bat and a mouse or an elephant a whale or a hyrax (small mouse-like creature related to elephants)
You can get the sequences of many genes online and then have her count the number of differences. The protein sequence may easier. The more differences the less related they are. Sequences of proteins can be found at
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
under the drop down "protein" an actin variant or alpha-/beta-/gamma- tubulin may be good choices.
Guys,
Appreciate these replies. Can someone offer detailed projects with a little push in the right direction? I'm looking for something other than a Volcano or banking soda fun...
YouTube water filtration/purification project made from common materials that would otherwise add to the solid waste issue.
Suck a hardboiled egg into a bottle with a match.
Go to Harbor Freight and get a 15 dollar 1.5 watt solar panel car charger, and 10 NiMH rechargeable batteries. For two weeks or a month, charge the batteries all day, and then at night use them to power a CD player, and a flashlight and whatever else you can think of. Chart it up how long it takes to run down each night.
Extrapolate it for a period of 10 or 20 years-how many hours you can run the equipment, balanced against the 30 dollars worth of capital expended, and free energy.
Then, do the calculation assuming you charged them from the wall, at 10 cents per kilowatt hour.
The result should show that even if the solar panels/batteries have a life of 20 years, you will have spent 30 dollars to capture free energy that would have cost two or three dollars from the utility.
But the planet stays cool.
Flat earthers will vote for you.
Real Advise wrote:
Enabling the entitlement generation. Land the helicopter and let her do her own project.
So you think I should have her build a helicopter? How long will that take? Is it expensive?