The Science Fair is Tomorrow. Help!
Whether or not the science fair really is tomorrow, we know that sometimes you need a science project that takes minutes or hours rather than days or weeks!
In this file, we’ve put together 18 simple science projects that are delightfully fun and will teach your student about the scientific method too. Each project can be completed in one evening and has a guide with ideas for how to make it a true experiment and then communicate your results.
These activities are also a lot of fun for group investigations and home science.
Upper Elementary or Middle School
Experiments include:
- How many drops on a penny?
- Walking water
- Ink chromatography
- Pepper scatter
- Gravity-defying lid
- “Magic” screen
- String water bridge
- Thermocline cups
- Rolling a can
- Balloon on a wall
- Pepper vacuum
- Levitating orb
- Repelling balloons
- Chladni plate
- Rainbow milk
- Cabbage juice lemonade
- Sunbutter Cookies
- DNA extraction