

![]() | What natural insecticide is most effective against crickets? The purpose of this experiment was to determine what natural pesticide is most effective in killing crickets. I became interested in this idea when I heard about the possibility of banning synthetic pesticides being banned from the market, due to safety issues. | ||
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![]() | Do you have a blind spot and if so, how can you determine your blind spot? ![]() One of the most dramatic experiments to perform is the demonstration of the blind spot. The blind spot is the area on the retina without receptors that respond to light. Therefore an image that falls on this region will NOT be seen. It is in this region that the optic nerve exits the eye on its way to the brain. To find your blind spot, look at the image below or draw it on a piece of paper: | ||
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![]() | Are poems with lots of rhythm, rhyme, and different sound devices easier to learn than those written in free verse? The purpose of this experiment is to see if poems with lots of rhythm, rhyme, and different sound devices are easier to learn than those written in free verse. | ||
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![]() | Is our heartbeat affected by music? My science fair groups experiment had to do with the heart beat. We had kids walk up and down stairs for 3 minutes and recorded the heartbeat. Then we had them do the same thing 2 more times, except that music was playing (rock and classical) while they were running. My hypothesis was that music would not have an effect, but it raised the heartbeat. My favorite part of science fair | ||
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![]() | Do plants grow at different rates when given different plant foods? ![]() I wanted to know the growth difference in plants when different plant foods were being fed to them. I believed that if I used Miracle-Gro the plants would grow taller than the others, I believed this because Miracle-Gro seems to be the most popular nationally known plant food in the United States of America. I hoped that this investigation would tell me what plant food makes plants grow the fast | ||
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![]() | How to make a potato battery ![]() This activity uses a common potato and two different metals to make a enough electricity to run a small digital clock. Try this activity then attempt to expand on it to create a neat science fair project. | ||
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![]() | Which Parent Affects Fingerprint Pattern Types More? The purpose of my project is to find out if the male parent or the female parent affects the offspring's fingerprints more. | ||
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![]() | Can the Purple Loosestrife, a foreign plant be destroyed by introducing its natural enemies without damaging agricultural crops? Examine ways for the biological control, of a foreign plant, with its natural enemy without harming the native plants of North America. To determine if any stage in the beetle, Galerucella calmariensis and Galerwcella pusilla life cycle will feed only on purple loosestrife, Lathrum salicaria, or if it will feed on agricultural crops in North America. | ||
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![]() | Comparing Two Types of Music on the Naptime Resting Behavior of Sleeping Childcare Children ![]() The purpose of this experiment was to determine which type of music decreases the restless naptime behavior of childcare children more, classical music or soft rock.
The information gained from this experiment will help parents and childcares around the world get their children to rest better during the day. | ||
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![]() | What is the effect of trash and garbage on the enviroment? The objective of this experiment is to analyze individual solid waste management habits, to understand what is biodegradable and what is non-biodegradable, an also to understand why composting is a landfill alternative. | ||
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