What can a 9th grader write a 10-page, single-spaced report on?

Question

Science-related.

Answer 1

Paper

Answer 2

Why don't you write an overview on the appearance of life on Earth? You could describe the order of the major events, talk about what early Earth was like, and explore various explanations (including creationism and "intelligent" design as well as scientific approaches) for how life came to be. It's a really neat topic, there is a lot of information and it's even a current event.

I remember back in Grade 9 it would have seemed like a hopelessly immense task to craft ten whole pages of content. But if you choose an interesting and perhaps controversial topic, you'll have no problem filling the pages. You may even find yourself writing more than ten pages and cutting it down -- if that happens, so much the better; you will remove the weakest material.

Go to it! Good luck.

Answer 3

What kind of crazy class are you in? single spaced, I don't think I have ever written a single spaced paper, and 10 pages that is longer than just about any report I have written as well.
Subjects:
Cell biology and cellular processes (there is a lot of detail you can go in to)
Cellular evolution and mutations in different bacteria
Biology of a cat or a dog with behavioral analysis
Anatomy of just about any animal (every bone could take a page if you needed it too)
The chemistry of life, how chemicals allow us to survive

There are many subjects you can cover, like even what kind of alien life might be out there. I just chose mostly biology subjects since that was the catagory you had the question in. I can come up with more in just about any subject, but they will all require a lot of research.

Answer 4

Maybe you can contribute to the solution on world hunger. There are many, many research going on in the developed and developing world to find a solution to world hunger. Some of the directions they are investigating are: climate resistant crops, insect resistant crops, salt water growing crops, palatible and non spoiling engineered food made from waste/weed plants in plenty supply, etc. The list is almost endless. If you write about all the directions the research is going, you'll need 100 single spaced pages. Who knows you may come up something new. Perhaps become your life calling.

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Answer 5

My son is in the 9th grade too and he has to do a science fair project this year, instead of a report. He chose to do it on a Leyden Jar Capacitor, also known as lightning in a bottle. He found a lot of info on it on the net. Maybe you could do your report on that or anything that really interests you about science. Maybe just start googling science projects and you will run across something that catches your eye for a subject for your paper. Good luck!!!

Answer 6

Find a science-related topic that you find interesting. You are more apt to get into it and will find it more enjoyable rather than drudgery. Animals, people, plants, planets, the moon, weather, global warming...there are a myriad of science-related topics from which to choose. Then research the topic at the library and on line. Put the name of your topic in a search engine and there should be several web sites listed in which to go.

Answer 7

the butterfly effect
not the movie, it's a real science effect thingie, and all your colleagues are gonna love it, plus it's like famous... trust me ;)
aaand it's about chaos... who wouldn't like a girl who knows a thing or two about chaos and anarchy
so google it up!
cheers

btw here's what i found on wikipedia:
The butterfly effect is a phrase that encapsulates the more technical notion of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory. Small variations of the initial condition of a dynamical system may produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system. This is sometimes presented as esoteric behavior, but can be exhibited by very simple systems: for example, a ball placed at the crest of a hill might roll into any of several valleys depending on slight differences in initial position.

Answer 8

Perhaps you could do it on the changes in climate that have occurred throughout the globe since the end of the last ice age, and what species went extinct in each region.

This would involve work with geology, climatology, paleontology, anthropology, geography, oceanography, zoology, and ecology, with important connotations through a linkage to hot topics like climate change and extinctions, while remaining a primarily catalog-based summary of other findings (no need for experiments that might go haywire), and plenty of room to add maps, time scales, and pictures of extinct animals that directly add to your project, yet also reduce the amount of text you have to produce.

Answer 9

Almost everyone has dropped their food on the floor before and almost everyone has picked that food up and put it right back into their mouths, as long as the food has been on the floor for less than five seconds. Write a report on the validity of the so called "Five Second Rule". Use info from the internet, do surveys, research the different amounts of bacteria on different floor types and the kinds of diseases you may acquire!

Answer 10

Just pick something really broad, like instead of doing it on an element you could do it on the entire periodic table. That would be easy to make into 10 pages. The theory of relativity would be good.