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How to get idea for Science Project
How to get idea for Science Project
Looking for ideas to be developed in a science project can be the most difficult part of a science project, it requires creativity and critical thinking power. This process often takes quite a long time. In essence, ideas can be extracted from each individual, depending on how each individual responds to every thing that happens. By increasing awareness and critical attitude, of course, finding ideas is not a necessity.
The surrounding environment is a repository of invisible scientific work ideas. Many events happened even in the span of just one day. Environmental conditions that are constantly changing and human habits can have an impact on the environment. By paying attention to your surroundings and seeing things from a different point of view, you can find brilliant scientific ideas that no one else has ever thought of. It could be that the idea arises from our anxiety about environmental conditions that are getting worse and it can also from awareness that arises after we become more sensitive to the environment. From this case you can choose a local problem (problem close to our environment) that also happens worldwide. You can check UN SDGs to see the main concern of the global world nowadays.
Research ideas can also be obtained by developing existing research to become more perfect. This requires the ability to think critically and also conduct a fairly deep literature study.
Here are some general tips on how to generate a research topic:
Choose a topic that is interesting to you. Maybe there is a topic that you have always wanted to know more about. You will be working with this topic for a long time, so choose it carefully.
Search for ideas on the internet. Look not only for research projects that have already been conducted but also for general information about the entity you might study and the items you might manipulate within the experiment.
Reflect on a topic you heard about on television that piqued your interest.
Think about issues your family deals with. Maybe there are personal reasons why you might be interested in a specific topic.
Flip through a science or math book, magazines such as Science News, or encyclopedias for inspiration.
Borrow your teacher’s science supply catalogs (such as those from companies like Carolina Biological Supply or Flinn Scientific) and look through the different live specimens, chemicals, and apparatus that you could purchase or borrow.
Think about the lab skills that you have already learned. How might you use those skills in a research study? Are there other skills that could be easily learned that you’d like to try?
Ask your teacher for a list, or maybe a tour, of available equipment in your school that you could check out to use at home or use within the school’s lab.
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