Science Project Ideas
You can get an idea for a science project anywhere! Look around you, ask a question, talk to a friend, or read the newspaper. What do you wonder? What can you do to find out? How can you measure that?
Your goal is to come up with science project that interests you! It is especially fun to do a project that involves a testable question and doing science yourself to try to find an answer.
Remember you can change any experiment to follow your own ideas!
Tinkerlab Science Experiments: “Yeast and Sugar” “Microwave Marshmallow” “Is it Magnetic?” Great experiments for younger kids (or anyone). Scroll down for the full list.
TOPScience has inexpensive ideas for classroom projects that you can adapt to do at home. Don’t feel that you have to stick to your own grade level or do the experiment exactly as they suggest.
Bill Nye Home Demos (such as “Erosion Explosion”, “Planaria Fishing”, “Baseball Moon”) are mostly quick and easy, but they illustrate solid science concepts, and Bill Nye makes it fun.
Hairy Potato! Upside down beans! Plant maze! Consider a project from Plants for Kids: http://herbarium.desu.edu/pfk/index.html (Hover over the bars on the left until the word "Experiment" unfolds. There are a lot of good ones in this set!)
Candy Experiments Yes, really!
“Copper Caper” “Pringles Pinhole” and the classic “Mold Terrarium” are just a few of the activities on Exploratorium Science Explorer.
Try your hand at Citizen Science for NASA and describe your experience (e.g., counting asteroids)
Find books on your topic by visiting or reserving books at the Montgomery County Library. Ask your librarian or search for books with information and project ideas on that subject.
Ms. Poole at the Beall Elementary Library has pulled books for students to check out!
Good for our youngest Budding Scientists:
Sid the Science Kid -- this site has many ready-to-go ideas for Budding Scientists aged 2-8 years.
Kindergarten Science Fair Projects -- Great tips for parents on how to choose an appropriate project, and how to set learning goals for Kindergarten projects (such as “Air Study” and “Friction Study").
Bookmark this site: http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/ This is a great site to create a GRAPH of your data.