HELP!! I need help with Science Fair!!?

Question

Okay My Chemistry teacher says that I can do No ANIMALS OR HUMAN Testing And NO Consumer Testing on Products! So I have no clue what to do! Can anyone help me out?!?! Thanks

Answer 1

You can test the environment.

If you can't test the frogs, you can test the water they live in. You can test several water sources over a period of time to see just what the pollution content is, the microorganism count, the water's ph and you can make notes on the insects and other wildlife in the area.

You can't test something on animals, or capture them to test, but you can observe them and make scientific observations. Look at Merecat Manor, a show on Animal Planet. The entire show is about observing a family of merecats. Yes they have attached a tracking device to one of them, but beyond that the humans don't interfere with their lives.

You can test plants. Take tree core samples; break them down to see what they are made up. You can study them with a microscope to.

You can also study chemical reactions, or create a display on how these reactions work and what they do. How are plastics made, what happens if you add other chemicals into the reaction? How was nylon made, and what impact did it have on the world (it was the first plastic made).

You could create a Hydrogen Fuel cell. NASA has been using them since at least 1965 to provide power and extra oxygen to their spacecraft. The Apollo 13 disaster happened when a liquid oxygen tank exploded. The tank had a spark and oxygen to create a fire, the other part of the equation--the fuel was from the Hydrogen side of the Fuel Cell. California wants to create a demand for hydrogen-powered cars. How will this work? How much does it cost to refine water into hydrogen and oxygen? It requires a lot of electricity and most of that is generated in coal or oil fired power plants. Does that sound like a less polluting source? What would have to be done to make it a less polluting source of fuel for our cars? Is it even practicably? How many solar panels would it require, are solar cells efficient enough?

How is dry ice made? You can get into Boyle’s Law and create an apparatus that uses a pump to decrease the gas pressure in a container. When you freeze the gas, at a lower air pressure, then you are able to get it colder than you would with just normal refrigeration.

The Bio Dome failed do you know why? The idea was to have enough plants creating oxygen that the people could then breathe. Why wasn’t their enough oxygen? What would have to be done to make enough oxygen? You could create a terrarium and monitor the oxygen produced by the plants. Maybe you could even populate it with a few insects. Ask your teacher if you can experiment using insects.

A science fair project doesn’t have to be new research. It can also be an explanation of how something complicated is done, or the historic processes used to create something. Usually you want something dynamic in the project, you can do that with a notebook computer presenting a short slide show. Or with an active experiment like a plant that process water into oxygen and hydrogen. Include two balloons to catch the gas, and make the machine run only when a switch is held closed. You could create a manifold to have many balloons full of gas, and you can exhaust the oxygen into the air.

There are a lot of other subjects you can do. The hardest part of a science project is the METHOD, how do you do the project, and will that method produce valid results. Heck, you can do a project on the scientific method, how it works and why the steps must be followed. You can analyze Cold Fusion and why it didn’t work, and then you could postulate what the group did to make the experiment work.

Look at the Discovery Channel show The Mythbusters. Every episode they take urban legends and myths to prove if they are true or not. Usually they prove them wrong, and then they try to see what would have to be done to make them work. For example they proved that a whirlpool could draw a man under, but it would take a huge one to take down a ship, something that is 3-4 times the fastest whirlpool ever observed. Therefore ships don’t sink in whirlpools. They also looked at the pop rocks and coke myth and found that the stomach won’t explode.

The hardest part isn't the idea of what to do, but HOW to do it, and make a presentation out of it.

Answer 2

get strips of a bunch of different metals. Stick them in salt water solutions 2 at a time. Take a voltage meter and read the voltage from between them. call one of them 0 then rank all the others with the value you get compared to that one.

then you can say the two that are the farthest apart would make the best battery because you would get the most voltage out of it.

trust me your teacher will love this one.

Answer 3

How about some ideas from me? here are some things you may like to do:

-investigate the effect of Mozart's music, rock music, pop music on the growth of plants.
-investigate which fruit gives the highest voltage when connected to a electrolytic set-up
-Which fruit has the most amount of Vitamin C
-preparation of esters
-how do soap, detergent work?
-how to recycle trash?
-which vegetable has good nutritional properties and values
-purifying sea water by distillation
-purifying sea water by membrane technology
-Investigate different types of soils and their chemistry
-paper chromatography : think of some fun with it, let's say producing fascinating colours with a special ink.
-Electrolysis: which combination of metal electrodes gives the highest voltage
-Solubility of different salts
-Titration of KMnO4 with Fe2+
-Solubility of petrol in water/alcohol/chloroform
These experiments require you to be at least 15 years of age.

Answer 4

There are a lot of ideas, and he did not rule out plants if you are interested in working with them, but the hard part is finding an authentic project idea.

Please spare us from fertilizer effects, volcanoes, and baking soda reactions!

Answer 5

invent the worlds most efficient light bulb

find a new way to generate a truly random number

formulate a new battery

demonstrate how dirty the average computer keyboard really is

or come up with something yourself and quit being so lazy!

Answer 6

seed in a bag, no oxgen, agianst wet cotton, hang on the window and watch it grow explain how no H02 is neede for plants to survive.

Answer 7

Model of the digestive system and talk about how it works.

Answer 8

http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/category39.html

Answer 9

Combine two non-toxic chemicals together and see what you get.