Science Fair Projects
@okkidokitokki (1736)
United States
March 25, 2009 12:16pm CST
I am a college student and I am taking education classes. In one of the classes I am taking I had to do a science fair project.
Did ya'll have to do these in elementary school or high school? I did and having to do this one made me remember how horrible I was at coming up with a good idea.
I finally decided to monitor an intersection to see how many people actually used their left turn signal while in the turn lane. It turned out that 40% of the cars I saw did not. interesting.
What was your science fair project ideas? (I am done with my assignment so I will not be using your ideas, but perhaps I can learn from all of you on Mylot about the different things that are possible)
1 response
@yambucket (95)
• United States
4 May 09
Since I was homeschooled my whole life I didn't get to make a science fair project, but when I took my college level Biology classes I did have to theorize and conduct a few experiments.
The most recent one I did was on how plants react to verbal exposure, positive and negative. My theory was that negative verbal exposure would stunt a plant's growth whereas positive exposure might cause the plant to flourish. My experiment was too short to be absolutely conclusive but I found my positive plant to do better than my negative plant.
The other experiment I did was to see the effect of regular sleep habbite versus irregular on the human ability ro function. I got the idea for this from listening to John Tesh so I thought I'd test it out. After a month trial with each situation (keeping a journal the whole time) I found that regular sleep really does make a BIG difference in how you function.
@okkidokitokki (1736)
• United States
4 May 09
Yam, Thank you so much for your response. You are lucky to have not had to do one as a child, I always hated them and never completed one on my own.
Your plant experament makes me think I should talk to my poinsetia because it is finally dieing from Christmas and I really want it to live, I shall start to talk to it nicely.
There is no way I could deprive my self of sleep on purpose I know that I do horribly without normal sleep.
Thanks again


