North Harrison Elementary Science Fair
Possible Projects
(page last updated: 03/18/09)

Demonstrations
Photosynthesis
ph and how to measure it
Simple machines
Levers
How a switch works
How light reflects
How a motor works
How thermometers work
Does air have weight
Open and closed circuits
Evaporation
How seeds travel
How magnets work
How a bicycle works
Newton’s 3rd law
How heat is transmitted
What makes a hot air balloon rise
How a thermostat work
The steam engine
How a microscope works
How a periscope works
What makes a rainbow
How a telescope works
How a camera works
How polaroid glasses work
What causes light to bend
How a prism works
The pinhole camera
What causes echoes
How a record player works
How batteries work
The telegraph
Hydroelectric power
How airplanes fly
How rockets fly
How a canal lock works
Primitive clocks
Distillation
Water filtration
How elements combine to make compounds
The submarine
The sextant
What is density
What is surface tension
How a barometer works
Effects of air pressure
Fermentation
Osmosis
Phases of the moon
Eclipses
How a geyser works
How windmills work
Sedimentation
How a sundial works
The circulatory system
The human heart
Tooth decay
Why fish have fins
How do bird’s wings work
Hydroponics
Paper recycling
Glass recycling
Oil wells--how they work
How binoculars work
 
Observations
Crystals
Properties of solids, liquids, & gases
Local weather
Clouds
Animal tracks (incorporate habitat)
Spider Webs
How insects change
Parts of a flower (incorporate pollination)
Inside the egg (Incorporate life cycle)
A beaver home
Fingerprints
Shadows
Gravity
Rocks & Minerals
Homemade Models
Inside our earth
Volcanoes
Our solar system
How the ear works
Galaxies and the Milky Way
Features of the earth’s surface
(i.e. Mountain or Rock formations)

 

 

 

 

 

  
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