what are good science fair projects for 6th grade?(no volcanoes please)?

Question

i am helping my little sister, and her science teacher told us to research, so we are lol do you have any ideas on what she can do?like i said, no volcanoes please, her science teacher wont let them do those=Dthank you!!

Answer 1

This experiment won two science fairs. Mine in the 8th grade and a friend of mines sister a few years ago. Anyway you propose the question what is the best insulation? You take about 4 cups of ice water from the same pitcher so that they are all the same temperature. The you take each cup and put it in tissue box and surround it with a curtain type of insulation (fiberglass, sawdust, Styrofoam, and a control that is just in open air). You put a thermometer in each so that you can see the temp and record this temperature every say 15 min for over a 4 hour period. The insulation that keeps the ice water cold longer is the best. It goes through all the scientific method and is a very easy experiment.

Answer 2

Can goldfish learn? Or mice? or any small creature I suppose. You make a maze and put food at the end of it record multiple runnings of the maze to see if thier time improves. Probably a good idea to run the tests when the animal is hungry and make sure you run enough trials to get conclusive results, I suggest atleast 20 runs. Then graph the results, 6th graders have learned how to do that right?

Answer 3

My son attended the regional Intel science fair last year and one of the cutest science project was one that tested the handedness of dogs. The student put a biscuit in an enclosure such as a can and watched to see which hand each dog used. Each dog was tested about 10 times. Some dogs were clearly right or left handed and others were in between.

In kindergarten my son did "Gross Things Grow on Us." You take petri dishes with nutrient agar and touch them to various parts of your body and let the cultures grow. You can borrow the dishes and agar from school or buy them ready made in a science supply store.

In first grade my daughter tested plant soils. Miracle-Gro really does grow things twice as big.

Last year my daughter bought various painkillers such as Aspirin, anbesol, Burn-jel plus, Bacitracin plus and put them on skin and we ranked our pain when poked with a toothpick from 1-10 over 2 hours. Burn Jel Plus was by far the best.

Last year my son studied traffic patterns to see if the yellow light was longer for straight versus left-turns which take longer to make. The light was about 20% shorter for left turns although left turns took about 20% longer to make.

Volcanos are so overdone.

Answer 4

hey im in 6th grade too! a sturdy technological know-how honest undertaking could be springing up a gadget that runs on water! If ur no longer that sensible then u could do basically an expirement like see which gum blows ore bubbles etc. sturdy luck desire u win 1st place!!

Answer 5

It is called electrolysis of water. You get a glass of water and pass a current through it by connecting a wire to each end of a battery. Then each wire bubbles. One wire makes Hydrogen gas the other Oxygen gas. 2 times as much hydrogen gas bubbles are made then oxygen bubbles because water has 2 hydrogens and 1 oxygen.(Optional) If you collect the gas by placing a cup above the bubbles you can light it on fire to prove it is hydrogen and oxygen gas. Here is a site that explains better. http://www.science-projects.com/Electrolysis/eLysis.htm

Answer 6

When I was in 5th grade, I did an evaporation experiment.

I put the same amount of salt in different types of water (i.e. distilled, spring, tap, etc.)

Then i hung a string from a pole across the openning of the container.

I recorded what happened to the string (the salt will collect on it).

I don't remember exactyl what happened, but the different types of water had different amounts of salt on them.

Good luck!

Answer 7

found a website about that last year - just google it