Early primary grade kids enjoy choosing from an assortment of cool and interesting science projects. Science experiments are fun to complete because they are hands-on activities that allow creative thinking. Some topic ideas to captivate students include crafting noisy or mysterious toys, working with water colors, falling leaves and even familiar foods like eggs. One fun and simple experiment involves taking a ruler and standing it up and then watching it fall. Record the amount of time it takes to fall. Repeat this project a couple times, each time placing a taller or wider obstacle in between the ruler and flat surface, and record those varying times as well.
High school and middle school students enjoy having a variety of categories and topics to draw from when selecting their science projects. If you're fortunate enough to be allowed to choose your own type of project, know that chemistry, psychology, neuroscience and earth science ideas are all available. Tailor your category to your personal taste. For example, if you love nature or care about global climate change, conducting an experiment related to melting icebergs is applicable. Likewise, a project that researches the functionality of the human brain would interest curious psychology or medical students.
Once the experiments are set up and ready to go, the next step is to teach yourself how to take appropriate notes. Successfully rewriting the information into a report form can be difficult, so numbering, dating or otherwise marking each step is recommended. Highlighter markers are one quick and easy way to draw attention to important points later. Taking the time to accurately organize and properly classify your ideas, thoughts and experiment steps and their results will also enable you to study for quizzes and tests more thoroughly when the right time comes. Use colored labels to further categorize experiment sections inside your journal.
Given that science projects and experiments often have multiple steps, read all text closely and slowly when studying the steps. Listen attentively at the start of class as your teacher conveys the overview for the project. If you find yourself confused while conducting the experiment, focus on other most recent projects that you were assigned. Attempt to figure out if any of the details or steps from your past project were similar to the current one. If this is the case, use your notes from the previous experiment to better understand the present confusing one.