We have a science fair coming up in a couple of months, and we've been narrowing down ideas. Here is our tenative plans so far, what do you think? dd12 Sea Monkeys - using pond water versus tap water versus bottled water to see which one they thrive better in. OR Hair growth - can using a placebo (fake hair growth treatment) work the same, worse or better than a "proven" one on the market (her balding dad will be her test subject for that one) ds15 Pea Plants - using soil from different states (WY, MT, ID, WA, and OR) to grow pea plants to see which soil produces the best sprouts/plants under otherwise exact growing environment (an indoor greenhouse and artifical light) He will use a 4-way tester to record data, the soil will come from farming areas of each state (dh travels in his work and can obtain soil for us quite easily) OR Archery - can imagining practicing hitting bullseyes for 10-15 minutes a day improve your accuracy? ds14 Coffee - testing subjects for 2 weeks by giving them caffinated or decaffinated coffee daily and having them record which one they think it is. OR Psychic phenomena - testing subjects to see if they can sense when someone is staring at them without them seeing the person doing the staring. He will be the starer and have the subjects write down when they think he is doing it off and on during the day. Which ones do you think would stand out at a science fair? Michelle
I am not sure how you could have a control for the archery idea unless you actually get groups of people involved. The baldness idea sounds good. You could select 4 patches of scalp and put nothing on one, commercial item on one, a made up concoction, and an herbal formula on another. Pictures could be taken initially, as could hair counts in a given area like a square centimeter.
The hair thing is wonderful. I don't think archery is very good. Soil is a good one too. Lorna PS we are doing a frog disection
I like the hair growth one too! We belong to an archery club, and one of the members suggested that one. We would have to take 10 people, have 5 do the visualization and 5 not, then record the data during a 2 week period. That wouldn't be a problem finding 10 people to participate. We researched it a bit and found an experiment like this had been done with basketball players and the results were quite impressive for the ones who had visualized getting it in the basket. I think my oldest is going to do that one, and the other two are going to work on the hair one. Michelle
