7th Grade Science Fair Project Ideas

This is the fifth time you have to come up with a science fair project at your kid's school. The deadline is two days away and you haven't done a thing! No research, or homework and definitely no preparation in advance. What more can you deduce from this scenario? Surely a panic attack! But the reverse is very much possible. The research for a 7th grade project does not require exhaustive plans. Just open the science book and pick out the easiest topic, which can be made into a super informative project with household materials. If not then let me suggest to you, a few simple tricks!

Active Volcano Project
Get a plank of wood from your garage or from any garage sale. Make the volcanic mountain with salt dough and papier-mâché or by plastering around an empty open bottle. Tightly close the area around the mouth of the bottle, leaving the hole open for the eruptions. Once your mountain is ready, paint it and make ridges to make it look like an authentic miniature. For creating an eruption, make a mixture of 1tsb dish washing powder, 1tsb baking powder and few drops of red food color. To see the final eruption, add ¼ cup of white vinegar to it. And voila! The roaring volcano will begin to explode!

Solar System Project
Get nine plastic balls and one big orange ball for this fun project. Make sure you have them in the appropriate colors and sizes, as that of the planets. Paint a cardboard box with a black background with a white strip across the board to show the milky way. Use silver acrylic paint to make your stars stand out! String the balls in the order of the planets and keep the sun at the beginning. Let the string or the wire come out the box so that you can rotate the planets to show how day becomes night and night becomes day!

Water Harvesting Project
Make a house of cardboard or a mount board with an open base. Place the model on top of a vessel containing water, which will become your basement. Sow a few seeds of any of the pulses, in the garden of your model house. Attach a pipe to basement of the house where the vessel is placed, with an outlet on the top to make rain. Collect the rain in a reservoir on top of the house and send it back to the basement. Connect the basement with the garden, where you have sowed the seeds, and see it bloom within two days.

Simple Machine Project
Simple machines would never have been simpler! To show an inclined plane, take a plank of stiff paper and place in a slating position with your toy truck. Keep a weight on the plank and show a man pushing the weight up in the truck. To make a pulley, take a reel of thread and tie a weight at it end. Roll the reel so that the weight comes up. This way, you can show your friends how a pulley works.

The motive of schools behind assigning projects, is to make children understand how a certain law or a system works in practicality. Often science projects are given as homework, so that children refer to books other than their school books. Try and comprehend this intent of the school. To look beyond that, building school projects is a great platform for parents and children to open up and build a bond of trust. Abiding by project and homework deadlines help children to learn and respect rules. Don't try and finish up the project for your child, thinking that he/she is incapable of doing it alone. In fact, it is because they are incapable that they need your help. Be open to their ideas and suggestions and you'll definitely win the science fair!