Sample Projects For 7th Graders
In the matter of complexity, 7th grade science projects are not expected to be exceedingly complicated. Of course, these should be more advanced than the projects that students from lower grade levels are expected to do. That being said, an ideal science fair project should take no more than a few weeks to accomplish. The following projects have probably been done by countless other 7th graders all around the world. You can borrow the idea and the topic, but you must try to make your own significant modifications to make the project completely your own. 1) Tracking average wind speed in your community In this type of project, your goal is to calculate the average wind speed in your community for a specific time period. You can consult with your science mentor about the length of time that you will devote to your wind speed tracking project. To do this project, you will need a simple tool for measuring wind speed. If you want, you can request permission from your local weather station to use their anemometer. You can also just make your own. To have comparable data, you need to measure wind speed at regular intervals during the day. You should keep to your schedule every day after that. You can then compare wind data at specific hours. You can even get average wind speed everyday and plot daily average on a chart. In this type of experiment, your adherence to a strict schedule of wind speed measurement is important. Moreover, you should also be very diligent about taking notes. To enrich your project, you can compare your results to official data and explore the factors that determine why your community has such an average wind speed. 2) Which fruit has a higher dehydration rate? This project is done mainly to demonstrate that the higher a fruit's moisture content, the higher its dehydration rate is going to be. To begin with, therefore, you should have various fruits with different moisture content. Cut these fruits in half and leave them out in the open to dry. To measure rate of dehydration, you need to weigh the fruit daily. From the set of weight data, you can calculate decrease through time (even plot it in a line graph) and show which fruit has a higher dehydration rate.
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