DISPLAY AND EXPERIMENTAL
Included are sample topics for making models or conducting
demonstrations. These should be level 3 projects. Some personal
input is needed to avoid just a display project.
1. A Bell System
2. History of Shells
3. A Chemical Change
4. Types of Fuels x
5. A Crystal Radio
Set
6. Heat can Produce
Electricity [Exp*]
7. Action of a Solenoid
8. Fire Must Have Air
to Burn
9. A Door Chime
10. How Electricity
is Made? (Generator)
11. Air Currents, Wind,
Hurricane
12. Climate
13. Electric Eye
[Exp*]
14. Weaving and Sewing
Techniques
15. Electromagnetism
16. A Projector
(Make a slide projector)
17. Fluorescent Lights
18. Measuring the Ocean
Depths
20. Measuring Outer
Space
22. Model Airplanes
23. How to Develop
a Picture
24. Molding
25. How Traffic Signals
Work
26. Most Liquid contain
either Acid or Alkali
27. Inside a Cave, Make
stalactite
29. Operation of a
Doorbell buzzer
30. Mercury
31. Parts of an Electric
Motor
32. Minerals: Origin,
Distribution
34. A Water Pump in
action
35. Make an Equatorial Sundial
36. A Weather Station
37. Our Solar System
38. A Cotton Gin
39. Phases of the Moon
40. A Wheat Elevator
(A Compound Machine Project)
41. Printing and its
value to Man
42. Cross Section of
a volcano
43. Salt and its Uses
44. Cross Section of
an Oil Well
46. Cross Section of
the Earth
47. Simple Machines
48. Distillation of
Water
49. Sound
51. Expansion and Contraction of metals
52. Electromagnetism
(same as 15)
53. Fingerprinting
54. Expansion and Contracting
Of Liquids
55. The Telegraph Key
57. Which Metals Conduct
Heat best? [Exp]
60. Sending Messages
by Electricity x
62. Light (4
questions, 4 experiments)
63. Water finds its
own level
64. Snowflakes
65. Water Supports
Heavy Weights
67. An Electromagnetic
Crane
68. Space Problems
in Gravity
70. Steam Propulsion
71. Parts of a Sailboat x
72. Steam Turbines
73. Parts of a Windmill
74. The Fulcrum and
the Lever x
77. Principles of a
Transformer
78. Water is Compound
of Hydrogen & Oxygen
79. Products of Natural Oil/Petroleum
80. Jet Propulsion,
Natural and Man-Made
81. Working Principles
of a Gasoline Engine
83. Working of a Telegraph
84. A Reed Basket
87. Workings of an
Irrigation Pump
89. Machines Made Work
Easier
90. Astronomy x
91. Birth of a Balloon
92. The Blinker Light
93. Causes of the Seasons
94. Bulbs in Series
and Parallel
95. The Climate of
your own Home
96. Chemurgy
97. Chlorophyll
98. Canals and Locks
99. Contour Mapping
100. Using a Compass
101. Weather Instruments -ForeCasting
104. Water Cycle
106. How Hard are Various
Types of Rocks and Minerals?
109. Erosion - What
causes erosion? - How can soil erosion be prevented?
110. Air Pollution
- causes and cleanup
113. Precipitation
114. Water Filtration
115. The City of the
Future
118. Topographic Mapping
119. Tides
120. Earthquakes and
Associated measuring devices
121. Collect and Identify
minerals and rocks exposed in local area
122. Foods (Make
a food guide display)
122.
Which
popcorn brand pops faster?
122. Which popcorn
brand pops the most?
122. How
does the type of food affect the growth of a pet mice?
[Exp]
123. Volcano
124. Can Electricity
Create Heat?
130. Compound Machines
- Winch / Lift
131. Compound Machines - Water Turbine
132. Compound Machines - Industrial Lift
141. Water Purification
142. Ultra Violet Radiation from the Sun
[Exp]
143. Reserved
144. Reserved
GRADES 4-6 EXPERIMENTAL PROJECTS
ELECTRICITY
1. Understanding
Electrical Conductors and Insulators (Quick)
[Exp*]
2. Demonstration
of principals; how is current affected by type of conductor,
temperature, filament, etc.
3. Compare material
and objects for conductivity. (Quick)
[Exp*]
4. Compare electromagnets
for strength. [Exp*]
5. Principles of
fluorescent lights; how do they compare with filament bulbs,
in effectiveness and cost. [Exp*]
6. Compare wires for conductivity.
7. Does the wattage of a light bulb affect the amount of heat given off?
[Exp]
PHYSICS
1- How metals compare
in conducting heat. (Quick)
[Exp]
2- How metals compare
in density (Quick)
[Exp]
3- Egg Floatation (buoyancy)
(Quick)
[Exp]
4- Efficiency of different
types of steam engines
5- How does the amount
of oxygen affect the rate of burning? [Exp]
6- Does Temperature
affect Solubility?
7- Are some substances
more soluble than others [Exp]
8- How do Airplanes fly? What is the best wing shape?
9- How do waves carry
energy?
10- How do magnets
work? How are they made?
11- Compare densities
of different gases
12- How Light is Affected
passing through water e.g. viewing objects under water, formation
of rainbows.
13- What limits the
speed of a car, boat, or truck?
14- Submarine; How to sink? How to float?
CHEMISTRY
1- Chemical Change
and the factors that affect the rate such as heat, light and
catalysts [Exp]
2- Acid and basic solutions,
how are they produced, how can they be modified; practical considerations
in soil, lakes, food; acid or basic solutions around the house.
4- The effects of salts
on the freezing point of water. (Quick)
[Exp]
5- Fire must have air
to burn. (Quick)
6- Effect of Acids on teeth,
bones and eggs [Exp]
10- The effects of salts
on the boiling point of water. (Quick)
[Exp]
METEOROLOGY
1. Day Length
- Why the day length changes in different days of the year? Calculate or
record length of days and nights over a period of time; what
effects do the changes have on things like household plants,
pets, etc.
2. Air Movement - Is air in your house the same temperature at floor level
and near the ceiling? How could you spread heat more evenly through
the house?
3. Dew - Does
it form on clear or cloudy nights? What other frost factors
increase the amount of dew? Can you measure how much dew is formed
in a square meter.
4. Temperature.
- How does the temperature change during the day? What time is
usually the warmest? Can you construct your own thermometer to
keep your own records.
5. Rain - How
does a rain gauge work? Measure the rainfall over a period of
time and compare it with the daily weather reports. - Principles
of cloud seeding and other weather modification.
BIOLOGY
Insects:
1. Personal observations
on life cycle
2. Feeding habitats,
3. Population, flies,
bees, butterflies.
4. What attracts insects?
Heat or light?
Nutrition:
11. plants and
fertilizers [Exp]
12. Minerals
in foods (Compare foods or fruits for dissolved minerals) [Exp]
Studies:
21. How pet mice
respond to different types of food (pellets, crushed, solid) [Exp]
22. Taste
Buds [Exp]
Plants:
31. Why do plants
grow towards light? [Exp*]
32. The effects of
gravity on seed germination [Exp]
33. How water moves
through the plant [Exp*]
34. How plants reproduce
and factors that affect the process [Exp*]
35. Why do plants move?
36. How do plants get
nitrogen [Exp]
37. Does gravity affect
plant growth? [Exp]
Soil:
41. The importance
of earthworms to soil and plants [Exp]
42. The effect of soil
components and organic matter on growth of plants. [Exp]
Field Studies:
51. Plant and animal
life in the school grounds
52. Plants and animal
life in a creek or stream
53. Plants and animal
life in a grassy field
54. Plants and animal
life in a tree
55. Plants and animal
life in a home garden
56. Plants and animal
life in a balanced aquarium
57. Plants and animal
life during winter x
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