Just capturing a list of potential project ideas for next time my nephew visits. <\/p>\n
Wind turbine<\/strong> \u2013 Saw interesting looking kits on amazon. One that screwed onto a soda bottle in place of its cap, providing a weighted base, and the other using a chemistry ring stand as a base and clamping onto a motor an propeller. Then using a volt meter to measure wind induced voltage. <\/p>\n Greenhouse Demonstration<\/strong> \u2013 Two identical thermostats, one inside a sealed bottle and the other outside. The greenhouse effect will heat up the thermostat inside the chamber. Saw it as a kit, but simple enough to build. <\/p>\n Potato \/ Lemon clock<\/strong> \u2013 Classic experiment of two metals pushed into a potato or a lemon to power a clock. The super low voltage DC\/DC converters you can get these days could drive the usable power curve from a setup like that. Build the board to show Tristan. <\/p>\n Rock Tumbler \/ Polisher<\/strong> \u2013 Rock tumbling might be interesting \u2013 but what about showing him a parts tumbler instead. Then we machine a part for another project and polish it?<\/p>\n Solar Projects<\/strong> \u2013 Including Photovores, but maybe set up a race of small Solar race cars<\/p>\n Radiometer<\/strong> \u2013 Not really an experiment, but showing him one of these and talking about it would be good. <\/p>\n Time Capsule<\/strong> \u2013 One we could bury in the back yard? If we bury it just off a trail where we could find it again, we risk having someone else dig it up \u2013 but we could make it into a day hacking and taking pictures and samples. <\/p>\n Solar Oven<\/strong> \u2013 Bunch of different designs for them, but an inverted pyramid formed from inward facing mirrors would be a simple start. <\/p>\n Solar Parabolic Fire starter<\/strong> \u2013 Done in parallel with the solar oven, using the tiny parabolic mirror approach for setting a piece of paper on fire we could build the parabola as part of the experiment. <\/p>\n Finger Printing<\/strong> \u2013 Put together a finger printing kit as a project, then do print and lifts. As part of this we could potentially make a simple cyanoacrylate fumer for bringing out prints. <\/p>\n Blood Typing<\/strong> \u2013 Simple project is just using one of the blood typing kits to determine our blood types. A cooler but much more involved project is if we get blood from a few different people use the agglutination test so he can see how some blood types respond badly when mixed. Not sure if this would work as a fun project, but sphygmomanometer to take blood pressure could be thrown in if we are doing several blood related projects. Also get a heart rate sensor and show how our heart rate goes up when we run \/ exercise. <\/p>\n Making Paper<\/strong> \u2013 Need something we can do with the paper once we made it. Possibly cast cardboard into a mold?<\/p>\n Fire Starting<\/strong> – Using a Bow and pivot to start a fire, compare with stick in a rut, and throw in using a magnifying glass. Make Matches to complex?<\/p>\n Biome Balls<\/strong> \u2013 Buy one of the biomes in a glass ball to grow while he is here? Maybe one for here and a new one to take home?<\/p>\n Raising Caterpillars<\/strong> \u2013 Make a cage to raise caterpillars and butterflies (summer project). Not just a jar with holes, do a glass case with enough growing foliage in it to feed and foster the bugs. <\/p>\n Molding Tracks<\/strong> \u2013 Go into woods on the hiking trails and make plaster molds of animal prints (Deer?) \u2013 maybe do some casts of hikers boot tread. <\/p>\n Production of Oxygen by Photosynthesis<\/strong> \u2013 Plant growing in a case under water. Case vents into a test tube with graduations on it. Transparent case lets light in keeping the plant alive. As the plant outgasses oxygen you can see it collect in the inverted tube. <\/p>\n Make a weather station<\/strong> \u2013 Play with data and graphs. <\/p>\n Interesting Ideas for more stuff here<\/strong>:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.funsci.com\/texts\/index_en.htm Just capturing a list of potential project ideas for next time my nephew visits. Wind turbine \u2013 Saw interesting looking kits on amazon. 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\nLots of bio links that were cool here
\nhttp:\/\/www.funsci.com\/fun3_en\/exper1\/exper1.htm#chlorophyll<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"