Żaneta Mucharska Science Fair Projects at School

Kate, 13

My class took part in a science fair at school. We prepared a scientificscientificscientific project about water filtrationwater filtrationwater filtration methods. At first it seemed complicated, but it was not at all. We needed to use materialsmaterials [material]materials such as coalcoalcoal, food colourfood colourfood colour, cups of water, and coffee filterscoffee filters [coffee filter]coffee filters. First of all, our task was to check which home method works best. What is more, we wanted to check if cheap eco‑friendly methods can be as effective as professional ones. Finally, we had to displaydisplaydisplay the resultsresults [result]results to other students. I suggested that a bar graphbar graphbar graph would be the best solution in this case.

Josh, 14

I love sciencesciencescience, that is why I was so excited when I found out about the science fair in our school! I am always the leader in such projects and it was me who created the topic: “What makes ice melt faster.” My classmates were a bit surprised, but they agreed to prepare it. I explained that we only need solidssolids [solid]solids such as sodium chloridesodium chloridesodium chloride (salt), sugar, sand, and ice cubesice cubes [ice cube]ice cubes. I did some researchdid some research [do research]did some research before and our team’s hypothesishypothesishypothesis was that salt would be the winner. After doing some observationsobservations [observation]observations of the ice cubes’ reaction, we put the datadatadata into a table and presented the result to other students. I think we managed to prove our hypothesis.

Zoya, 13

Unfortunately, my group isn’t good at science. However, we still had to prepare an experiment which would be on displayon displayon display during a science fair at school. We finally came up with an idea for our topic. We wanted to check which baitbaitbait works best for a homemade fly traptraptrap. It sounds ridiculous or funny, but just think how many times you couldn’t get rid of an annoying fly. Such projects are very useful and practical. The whole procedureprocedureprocedure of carrying outcarrying out [carry out]carrying out an experiment was quite easy, we just needed to prepare 4 traps using plastic bottles with various liquidsliquids [liquid]liquids inside. We used honey, maple syrup, vinegar, and corn syrup. We made a decision to observe the traps for 3 days, and then present the data on a clear round pie chartpie chartpie chart using different colours. I was curious which liquid would turn out to be the best.

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