Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Bread Mold Science Fair Projects Ideas

If you're finding for an inspiring science fair project, then you may want to read more about bread mold science fair projects that you can do. They are easy and inexpensive to do but also allow you to ensue all the steps of the scientific method.

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It helps to first understand a itsybitsy about mold. Mold is someone else word for fungi whose bodies acquire and congeal together to form cottony vegetative bodies. Not all mold is cottony, however. Types of slimy mold are more like amoeba than their cottony cousins and leave a moister, slicker mass on the molded surface. However when it comes to bread, you will most all the time see the drier, threadlike mold.

Mold generally grows on bread faster in warm, dark, moist conditions. However, mold can grow in light, and some molds can even grow on frozen foods. Molds grow in varying conditions, at varying speeds, in every color you can think of.

Not just a disgusting increasing to old food, mold can be beneficial in many ways. One of the most coarse ways mold is used de facto is to make antibiotics such as penicillin. In 1928, Alexander Fleming accidentally discovered penicillin when he found mold growing on a discarded petri dish. The mold itself was not the miracle. Fleming discovered that the mold that had grown had killed the Staphylococcus aureus that he'd been growing in that particular petri dish. The rest is history!

Now that you know a itsybitsy more about bread mold, you can use the ideas below to help you find potential bread mold science fair projects.

Does sodium have an ensue on the growth of bread mold?

How and why does mold form on bread?

Is bread mold harmful to the human body if consumed? Why?

What are the optimal conditions for growing bread mold? Why?

Does light have an ensue on the growth of bread mold? If so, what kind?

Do positive types of breads mold faster than others?

How to grow bread mold...

Take a cotton swab and acquire some dust. Wipe the dust over the bread slices you want to experiment with. Place them in a bag with a few drops of water and seal the bag so the slices don't dry out.

Now you know a itsybitsy more about bread mold and the types of experiments you can do. You may have an idea of what you would like to try as a project. Plainly by asking questions about things that interest you, you can come up with great bread mold science fair projects that can be fun to do!

Bread Mold Science Fair Projects Ideas

Saturday, December 31, 2011

7th Grade Science Fair project Ideas

7th grade science fair task ideas are likely more complicated than the projects you've done in former years. The science fair at your school is likely more contentious for your age group and there's a good opportunity your peers will be putting a lot more time and attempt into their projects than they have in former years, so you'll want to do the same for your 7th grade science projects.

One provocative idea might be to see which type of cheese mold will grow on the fastest. This is a great task because it's interesting, but still fairly simple. Someone else idea for a task might be to see if you can grow a plant without soil. You can try placing seeds in varied things such as a wet paper towel, grass clippings, coffee grounds, etc to see if they will grow. Be creative!

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You could find out either the presence of smoke in the air affects plant transpiration. Maybe you could look into either or not there is ever acid snow, we all know there is acid rain, but what about snow? You can find this out by testing the Ph level of the snow and comparing it to the Ph level of acid rain. Obviously this single task only works in the winter months. There are many great topics out there for your 9th grade science project, it's just a matter of seeing one that interests you, researching and testing it out and presenting it in a pro manner.

7th Grade Science Fair project Ideas

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

3rd Grade Science scheme Ideas

Time for someone else elementary school science project! Now that your kid has risen to the 3rd grade, he or she cannot hand in the simpler projects that they did in grades before. No uncomplicated magnet experiments anymore. And yet, the typical science project, the volcano, is too complicated for a 3rd grader. What to do?

Here are some of many 3rd Grade Science scheme Ideas:

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1. Separate the colors found in color markers

Materials

- paper towels - scissors - assorted water markers - glass holder - pencil/pen - water

Procedure

1. Cut the paper towel into rectangular strips about one inch wide and as tall as the glass container.

2. Take one of the markers and draw a horizontal line on the paper towel strip about one inch from the bottom.

3. Take a pencil or a pen. Poke a hole in the middle of the paper towel strip. Insert the pencil or pen through this hole so the strip hangs in the middle.

4. Rest the pencil or pen on the top edges of the glass container. The paper towel strip should be hanging into the glass container.

5. Take the pencil/pen off. Pour enough water into the glass holder so when the strip is put back in, the water submerges the very bottom of the strip.

6. Put the strip back. Watch the water trip up the paper towel strip. Wait.

7. Repeat these steps for all the markers. See what colors each label color is made out of!

Some other 3rd Grade Science scheme Ideas:

2. Water and Penny Experiments

Materials

-many pennies -water -eye dropper - clear drinking glass

Procedure

One Experiment

1. Take the glass of water and fill it all the way to the top.

2. Determined add pennies into the water one at a time. Does the water spill over immediately? How many pennies can you add before the water spills over?

Second Experiment

1. Put a penny on the table.

2. Take an eyedropper and begin dripping water on the surface of the penny. How many drops of water can fit on a penny? More than you think!

3rd Grade Science scheme Ideas

Monday, December 26, 2011

1st Grade Science Fair Projects

A first grade science fair task enables a first grader to learn science in a fun way. Science fair projects plant the seed of interest in science, in a child. It inflames their imagination and arouses their interest in the world around them. The first grade is the ideal time to introduce a child to the breathtaking world of science and allow the child to examine and satiate his or her curiosity. The child also learns to be methodical and organized as the task follows a scientific formula and is based on scientific concepts and law which children are able to grasp easily.

While a classroom lecture often tends to be one-sided with the instructor giving the maximum estimate of inputs, a task focuses on the creativity and initiative of the child. The child is complicated in his task a hundred percent. Science fair projects also help in strengthening the bond between parents and children, as the child commonly turns to the parent for topic ideas and ultimately selecting the topic.

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For a first grade science fair task to be successful, the following tips should be kept in mind.

1st Grade Science Fair Projects

1.Allow the child to choose the experiment only if the topic interests the child. If they don't want to do it, you'll struggle the whole time.

2.While the instructor or parent can lend a helping hand and guide the child, the child should be allowed to work independently. No adult should ever take perfect control of the project. The adult should just keep an eye open to ensure that there are no accidents or mishaps. Suggestions and guidelines can also be given but the child should be allowed to do the experiment and draw his or her own conclusions from it. This way a child learns much more.

3.Allow the child to have fun while doing the project

4.Allow the child to experiment as one task idea can lead to many questions and new ideas.

5.Allow the child to be creative as a child can have an entirely separate perspective about the project.

There are thousands of ideas. A few are:

1.To explicate the idea of density, put an egg in a bowl of water and see if it floats or sinks. Replace the water with salt water, sugar water, oil and assorted other liquids of separate densities and narrative the results.

2.Make a uncomplicated lever with a pencil and an ice cream stick. Equilibrium coins on both ends and explicate the principle.

3.Test the magnetic force of a magnet by exterior it with paper, plastic, aluminum foil etc. Check its magnetic power.

4.Make separate designs of airplanes and test which ones fly the best.

5.Find out if white or dark objects get heated faster in the sun.

6.Demonstrate how a solar/lunar eclipse occurs.

7.Make a compass with a needle and cork.

8.Plant seeds and watch them grow.

9.Explain the water cycle.

So, a first grade science fair task is a scientific sense and will be one that child will never forget.

1st Grade Science Fair Projects