science fair project

I know that many just got back to school and are too busy but I need ideas for my science fair project. If you have any please help me

Originally Posted by zelda1994

I know that many just got back to school and are too busy but I need ideas for my science fair project. If you have any please help me

An eruting volcano would be nice,but thats just old.

Other that,i'm stumped,I really don't know.

We need more info... What are you studying on Specificly?...

think as hard as you can, things that ... you can do.

There are so many things you could do!

First, however, what are your skills? Can you do any wood working? What about modelling clay? Anything like that.

What are you interested in?

What kind of project does it have to be? (So, do you need to build a robot, or can you do a text-only presentation on penguins?)

How much time do you have?

Any specific topic?

Answer those and I might be able to give you a few hints on subjects that you'd like, I'm not going to go and give you a concrete idea, though, as that's half the challenge (and most of the fun.)

well first volcanoes are not allowed any more and my project is on no specific topic so i accept anny ideas

What are you good at ?

What do you like?

hmm well i like the space,animals,plants,and the ocean. i am really good at manual things.

*moved to Temple of Knowledge*

What grade are you going into? (Forgot to ask this earlier)
What kind of project does it have to be? (Model, bulliten board, Powerpoint, etc.)
How much time do you have to finish it?

Well I know that the Solar System is a very cliche science project, but you have to consider the following: There have been discussion about including three+ planets or getting rid of Pluto (the US doesn't want to get rid of it since it was the only planet a U.S. citizen discovered).

So my suggestion for you is, not to focus on the first seven planets, but to focus on the 8th, 9th, and the new ones. Keep people informed about what is the up-to-date system.

-BGS

Originally Posted by BigGoronSword

Well I know that the Solar System is a very cliche science project, but you have to consider the following: There have been discussion about including three+ planets or getting rid of Pluto (the US doesn't want to get rid of it since it was the only planet a U.S. citizen discovered).

So my suggestion for you is, not to focus on the first seven planets, but to focus on the 8th, 9th, and the new ones. Keep people informed about what is the up-to-date system.

-BGS

Actually, officially today, we have at least two new planets, with one possible new one. the IAU (The people who decide these things) have declared that Ceres (Largest asteroid in the asteroid belt), Charon (Pluto's moon), and possibly another asteroid (The name of which I can't remember), are now officially planets. Anything large enough to be a planet but with an orbit that's > 200 years is now called a 'Pluton', and we have hundreds of those.

The new definition (Or rather, the first, not counting the Greek definition) for a planet is this:
It has to be large enough to form a sphere under it's own gravity.
It has to orbit a star (Charon counts because the centre of it's orbit is just outside of Pluto.)
It's orbit has to take less then 200 years.

It might actually be pretty cool to do a model of the solar system with 2/3 new planets and do a writeup on why they're considered planets now and stuff like that.

Edit: And as I find out just after posting, Pluto is now no longer a planet, same with Ceres and Charon. A new resolution was just passed that amended the above to include that a planet must 'clear it's neighbourhood' of other object.