10th grader looking for ideas. Please help!Here's a little about me- I'm sixteen. Things that interest me are art (music, drawing, dance, photography, history), philosophy, social work, people, good movies, green tea, dove milk chocolate, nature, and fitness. I'm pretty open-minded and like a lot of different things. Even though i'm interested in social work and such, I don't want to test humans or animals because that's too much work. I either want to build something or create an experiment, but I have no idea what to do! I'm pretty lost.
Well, creating an experiment without people is rather tough, although you do like photography, maybe you can do an experiment with different (color maybe) lights as flashes or even something as simply as what dances (types or steps) works out the body the most. What helped me at the Science fair was watching game shows and try to make a science project out of that. Good Luck Though :)
How about the cell phone myth about popping pop corn or other cell phone myths. There are a lot of videos out there on how to do it. I think there is one on you tube.
I imagine they'd probably say something about the bad reputation that the media occasionally smears them with, or how race victims accuse them of racism when in reality they've done nothing wrong. It can be a lonely job, i reckon.
How about the effect of different ice melting salts on the germination of radish or grass seeds. The concentrations would be logarithmic. NaCl, KCl, CaCl2, NaCl+KCl, NaCl+CaCl2, KCl+CaCl2, NaCl+KCl+CaCl2. Sprouted in Vermiculite plus a set volume of salt solution made in distilled water (so there are NO OTHER salts or chemicals added that can either react with the salts or affect the results) to make it moist but not wet. Sprouts all grown at the same time, for a certain length of time, and then vermiculite knocked off sprouts, then sprouts weighed individually. Weights averaged with standard deviations listed, graphs made. Maybe pictures taken if the appearance could be different. I don't know what you would expect except at high concentrations it would inhibit sprouting. And if you contaminate the experiment with phosphate then the CaCl2 will precipitate out as calcium phosphate which is basically insoluble, and so is calcium carbonate.
