I need help with my science project BADLY!!!?

Question

Ok, I'm in the gifted class at my school, so naturely the teachers are going to be harder on me and the other three that are in the class. My science teacher asigned a project for the class to do, and (who'd have thought it) the four of us had to do something seperate ON OUR OWN. We are suppose to look on the Internet and look for something that we could do, or think of something on our own. The topic is weather or heat. It has to be something like how something is caused. For example, one of the other three is doing theirs about how thunder and lightning is caused, and another is doing theirs about dew point. I'm in a MAJOR CRISIS and really need an idea for what I should do mine about! Some more important details are: I'm in the 7th grade, so your idea can't be TOO complicated, and also the project isn't all about paper, I have to do a sort of 'deminstration'. So, yeah, it sucks pretty bad. If all you can think of is a web site, it would be very helpful, so PLEASE HELP ME!!

I wouldn't be talking much miss M Shadows, you sound a little stuck up yourself. I'd hate to meet you cause you probably look AND act like a horses rear end. But I'll pray for ya tonight anyways......

Answer 1

You could demonstrate how much force freezing water exerts on things. All you need is some kind of pipe (maybe even a straw), fill it with water and put it in the freezer. Measure the diameter of the pipe before and after just to show how hard it pushed.

Most things expand as they heat up, but this is an exception; as the water goes through a state change from liquid to solid it expands. Pretty neat trick in the world of science.

Answer 2

I think you should do a project on global warming. This is a world crisis, and is caused by greeen-house gases. Green house gases are caused by human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels. The green house gas most talked about is CO2 but there are others such as methane (CH4). Methane comes from rotting garbage and also from cattle both of which are also the result of human beings. Because of this warming polar ice is melting which will raise the sea level and low countries such as Holland may disappear. You can demonstrate the green house effect easily by placing a plane of glass over a box, setting it in the sunlight and measuring the rise in temperature inside. Or you can simply measure the temperature inside a car parked in the sun with the windows rolled up. The temperaure rises because the solar energy can go through the glass but the heat energy (infra-red) is blocked by the glass. This is similar to the way infra-red is blocked by the green-house gases in the earth's atmosphere.

Answer 3

I'm in Grade 7 also, so here goes. Do a project on why it rains more in some areas and in some seasons and use a globe to show when it would rain by saying something like "USA in the spring," and pour some water on the globe.

Hope you use this, because my teacher's even think it was one of my good projects.

Answer 4

You are in the "gifted" class and you do not know how to use a spell check? DEMONSTRATION. I'm glad yours is a science project and not English. How about Geothermal Heat for your project, lots of scope there, hot springs, geysers and volcanoes etc. Another area to think about is Friction and how it produces heat in machines, your demonstration could be producing fire with a bow drill.

Answer 5

Do is on how weather is caused on the high plains (the texas panhandle). We have severe thunderstorms that are caused by warm air from the gulf coast hitting the cold air from the mountains right above our heads. Or do how tornados form we have tons of those. If you want info on our past weather check:
www.kvii.com or search amarillo texas (it is the main city in the panhandle) Hope that helps. We have lots of interesting weather, stormchasers love our area. People come from china to see it (I am not joking and they pay alot too.)

Answer 6

You might try a presentation about how hail is formed. There should be a lot of information out there. If that doesn't work, perhaps something about how wind currents, waves, hurricanes, tornadoes, or another sort of weather occur. All weather involves heat, after all, so you should be in good shape.

Answer 7

This is actually fairly simple. You could do it on a number of things. One that's actually fairly easy would be the water cycle. You could demonstrate how rain is formed, how it falls to the ground, evaporates and comes back again as rain. You could also do it on water purification. We actually did that as a 7th grade science project. You can filter muddy water. It's not that difficult, you could boil it and then capture the steam, let it condense (usually in the form of rain drops) and then collect it. sounds pretty basic to me.

Answer 8

How does your class only have 5 people in it? LOL

You can explain how monsoons in china are caused by the moons gravitational pull. That is weather, but is really caused by the moon. But I don't know about the demonstration part. You are in gifted classes and you should be able to figure that one by yourself.

Answer 9

I did a term paper once on lightning, and was fascinated with it! I would suggest that, and now if you really are gifted, you spelled naturally wrong :) You can find many wonderful things to demonstrate what lightning is and how it happens, etc

Answer 10

Do a tornado all you do is put a cold air current on top of a warm one or something like that i don't know how to do it but you could look it up on line it is supposed to be easy yet looks cool