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Elementary Science Fair Projects

 

Doing Elementary Science Fair Projects has never been this easy. You do not have to spend days and months on it. Even if you do not have a lot of time you can share in the fun. Elementary Science Fair Projects can easily be done in 24 hours and mostly even in an hour! Read on to see how.

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Elementary Science Fair Projects 

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Elementary Science Fair project - How to neutralize an alkali 

Easy Science Fair Projects

This little elementary science fair project is going to show us why control centers for poison used to tell people to take lemon juice or vinegar for certain kinds of accidental poisoning. Because a poisonous substance is used in this elementary science fair project, it must be done under adult supervision!

What you will need for this experiment:


  • Litmus paper (you can make your own by dipping paper towels in red cabbage juice and letting it dry)

  • 2 Medicine droppers

  • A few drops of ammonia

  • A few drops of lemon juice or vinegar

  • A pair of latex gloves



How to do this experiment:


  1. Put on the latex gloves to protect you from the poisonous ammonia.

  2. Take two strips of litmus paper and place a drop of lemon juice on one strip and a drop of ammonia on the second strip using the second medicine dropper.

  3. Make a note of the color of the litmus paper after you dropped the lemon juice and the ammonia onto it.

  4. Make a note of the color of each strip.

  5. Now you have to apply a few drops of lemon juice to the spot made by the ammonia.

  6. What happens now?

  7. Why do you think it happens?



What happens is that the litmus paper returns to its original color when the lemon juice is applied to the spot made by the ammonia. In other word, the lemon juice works "against" the ammonia. We say the lemon juice neutralizes the ammonia. The strip with the drop of lemon juice only, is to show that the lemon juice turns the paper pink because it is an acid. When the lemon juice is applied to the ammonia spot it does not turn the green spot made by the ammonia into pink, it returns to the original color of the litmus paper because it neutralizes the ammonia it does not turn it into acid.

Now you may well ask what this has to do with poison. Well, it used to be the recommendation to take a little lemon juice to neutralize a poison such as ammonia as a temporary antidote until you reach the hospital. Today that is not considered a good idea any more and people are rather encouraged to dilute a poison such as ammonia by huge amounts of water until a hospital or doctor can be reached.

This elementary science fair project shows us that knowing the difference between an acid and an alkali can be very important. Try and think of more uses for it. In a later experiment I'll show you haw this concept of acid and alkali can be used to make dough rise in baking.

I hope you enjoy this easy science fair project.

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Elementary Science Fair Project - Cloud And Rain Science Fair Project 

Easy Science Fair Project About The Water Cycle.

Doing elementary science fair projects can be a lot of fun. Sometimes though, it is fun to do a science project that is very easy and short just for the fun of it. Learning can be fun with short easy science experiments and that is what we are going to do today. This short experiment is a little forerunner for an experiment in measuring rain that we will do at a later stage. So be on the lookout for that one!

First of all a note of caution: as this elementary science project involves a hotplate and boiling water you should be very careful when you do this project and smaller children should only do it under adult supervision.

I wonder how many of you know how clouds and rain are formed. If you think you know, try and explain it.

In our science project today, we are going to see how water turns into vapor and then back to water again. (This is called the water cycle.) On another day we'll look at measuring rain and if we add the two science projects together we will have a good science fair project. So take notes when you are doing this firs very easy science fair project. For help with science fair projects I can really recommend 24 Hour Science Project. 24 Hour Science Projects has complete easy science fair projects that can be done in 24 hours many even in as little as one hour.

This is what you will need  


  • A sauce pan

  • A heat-proof jug

  • Water

  • A plate

  • A pair of oven gloves

This is what you have to do 


  1. Fill the jug with hot water from the tap.

  2. Pour the water into the saucepan.

  3. Place the saucepan on a hotplate and switch it on.

  4. Wait until the water is boiling very rapidly and the steam is rising.

  5. Take your plate, remember to put on the oven glove, and hold it over the boiling water.

  6. What do you see happening?

  7. After a while switch of the heat.

  8. While still using the oven glove, take the plate away and look at it.

  9. What do you see?

  10. How can you explain it?

  11. What does it tell you about the water cycle?


Keep your notes for the next time when we are going to do the rest of this elementary science fair project.

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Elementary Science Fair Projects - Measuring Rainfall Science Fair Project 

Another Easy Science Fair Project

In our previous elementary science fair project we looked at rain. We all know now how clouds are formed and we know now why it rains and all about the water cycle. Now as I have promised, here is the rest of our cloud and humidity science experiment. In combining these two short experiments you will have a good elementary science fair project. Even though this is the case, I still recommend that you get a good science fair e-book to make sure you do your project correct, using the correct scientific method, keeping the correct notes and doing your display in the correct manner. A very good e-book is 24 Hour Science Projects; here you will get complete projects with everything you need to do a winning elementary science fair project.

Measuring The rainfall Experiment 

Now we move on to our "Measuring Rainfall" project.

This is what you will need for this science project :


  • A large jar (almost like a sweet jar)

  • Your notebook

  • A pair of scissors

  • A large plastic funnel that will fit on top of your jar without falling in

  • Some sticky paper

  • A ruler (marked in centimeters and not in inches)

  • A pencil

  • A ballpoint pen

  • A tall narrow bottle

What you have to do  


  1. The first thing you need to do is, cutting a strip of your sticky paper to the same height as your jar

  2. Stick this piece of sticky paper onto the outside of your jar, making sure you stick it on in a completely straight, vertical line.

  3. Using your ruler and your pencil make marks on the strip at 1cm intervals

  4. Place your plastic funnel in the jar

  5. Now you have to put your "gauge" outside, in the open away from trees or anything else that can prevent the rain from falling onto your funnel

  6. This is where the measuring start: every day at exactly the same time you have to look at your gauge to see if it has rained in the previous 24 hours.

  7. Use your scale on the paper strip to measure the amount of water in the jar, accumulated in the jar during the previous 24 hours.

  8. This is the amount of rainfall for the previous 24 hours.

  9. Write this reading down in your notebook, making very sure to note the correct date and time.(To make sure you know how to do this, I once again recommend 24 Hour Science Projects that has complete example projects from hypothesis to conclusion.)

  10. Remember to empty the jar before you put it outside on the exact same spot again.

  11. Keep this up for as long as you have time until your elementary science fair project has to be done. (This project might not be a good idea if you have to hand in your project before the rain season as you may have very little data to record.)

Measuring the rainfall more accurately 


  1. Take your narrow measuring jar and stick another piece of the sticky paper on it in the same manner as the jar.

  2. Fill your jar up until the 1cm mark.

  3. Pour that 1cm of water into the narrow bottle.

  4. Make a mark on the bottle exactly where the water is.

  5. Now you can divide the length on the narrow bottle into 10 equal parts. This in fact give you 1mm marks.

  6. Using the same scale mark the bottle to the top.

  7. Now you can use this bottle to measure the water collected in your jar far more accurately, collect the rainfall in the jar and then pour it into the narrow bottle and measure it.

  8. In your notes always make careful note of all the methods you use to show the judges that you were taking car to be accurate.



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An Example Of A Science Fair Project Using Ordinary Drinking Straws. 

A Fun Science Fair Project

To start, what about an example of a really easy elementary science fair project that even a Kindergarten kid will be able to do:

We all take drinking straws for granted. The question is: do you know how it works and why? What is the part you play in the liquid rising up into your mouth?

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The Drinking Straw Science Fair Project Idea 

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On to our experiment:

This is what you will need for your experiment:


  • Drinking straws

  • A glass of water

  • An empty jar or an empty glass



This is what you need to do:

  1. Start by putting the straw into your glass of water.

  2. Place your finger over the top of the straw. (Do you know what you are doing by placing your finger over the top of the straw?)

  3. Whilst still holding your finger over the top of the straw, pull the straw out of the water. (What are you doing by still keeping your finger over the top of the straw?)

  4. Now you have to place the straw over your empty jar or your empty glass.

  5. Take your finger away from the top of your straw. (Do you know what you are doing when you remove your finger from the top of the straw?)
    What happens now?

  6. Why does it happen?

  7. Can you now explain why the liquid rises in a straw when you suck on it?

  8. Is it now clear to you what is really happening?


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Elementary Science Projects: Piercing A Potato With A Drinking Straw! 

Fun with potatoes

Can an ordinary drinking straw pierce a potato? What do you think? Have you ever heard about "inertia?"

The Oxford Dictionary:Now for the fun:

Let's see if this "inertia" can make a drinking straw pierce a potato without breaking.

This is what you'll need for this fun science experiment:

  • A few drinking straws

  • A firm raw potato


How to do it:

  1. Make sure the potato is fresh and firm. If the potato is a little wilted let it lie in water for about half an hour first to firm up a bit.

  2. Now with one fast and strong action thrust the straw into the potato.

  3. What happens?

  4. Try it a few more times with other straws.

  5. Does the same happen?


If you did this experiment correct the straw will pierce the potato without breaking because of inertia as it is defined above.

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Some of the answers to the result of your projects:

By placing your finger on top of the straw you are keeping the air pressure in the straw lower than the pressure from below. What happens now is that the greater pressure from below the straw keeps the water in the straw. Now you can understand that when you suck on a straw, you are actually removing the air inside the straw and the greater pressure outside pushes the water up into the straw and into your mouth. And you thought it was your sucking that drew the water up into the straw and into your mouth!

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Easy Elementary Science Projects: The Art Of Dying Experiment 

This project is once again one of our Easy Elementary Science Projects that uses eggs. It is fascinating how many science experiments can be done with eggs. There is the egg in the bottle one, the egg in the detergent one, the egg in vinegar one, the egg oil pollution one and the egg wax drawing one. None of them actually has anything to do with the eggs but, they demonstrate something that we can learn from the substances we are using on them. For all the info you need to do a really top science fair projects, I recommend that you get and e-book such as 24 Hour Science Projects!

In this easy elementary science project we are going to find out if vinegar is needed to dye an egg. For an object to dye, the color molecules must stick to the object it has to dye. For your hypothesis you can say what you think will happen and why you think it will happen. Think positive and negative molecules. The molecules of the dye are negative, what happens to the protein molecules of the egg shell when it comes into contact with the vinegar, that is acetic acid and water?

This is what you need for this science project:

  • A 1 pint jar

  • Distilled water

  • A 1 teaspoon measuring spoon

  • 1 Large spoon that will fit into your cups

  • Blue and red food coloring

  • 4 Cups

  • A marking pen

  • Some masking tape

  • White vinegar (5%)

  • 4 Hard boiled eggs

  • Paper towels

  • Camera


How to do this experiment;

  1. Fill the jar until it is half full with the distilled water

  2. Add 2 teaspoons of the blue food coloring to the jar and stir to mix well.

  3. Pour half of the colored water into one of the cups and the other half into another.

  4. Repeat this with the red food coloring. Remember to wash your spoons before you use the new color.

  5. With your marking pen, mark two strips of masking tape "with vinegar" and two "no vinegar."

  6. Place the tapes saying "with vinegar" on one blue and one red cup.

  7. Now you add 1 teaspoon of vinegar to each of the cups marked "with vinegar"

  8. Place the tapes saying "no vinegar" on the remaining two cups.

  9. Carefully put one egg into each cup with a large spoon.

  10. Leave the eggs in the cups, undisturbed, for two minutes.

  11. Now you remove the eggs and place each on a piece of paper towel, in front of each egg's cup so that you will not get mixed up with your eggs.

  12. Do not dry the eggs but allow them to air dry.

  13. Now you have to observe your eggs.

  14. What has happened?

  15. Why do you think it happened?

  16. Is there a difference in the results you get from the two different colors?

  17. Take photos of your eggs for your display.

  18. To get a better idea you can even repeat this with even more colors.



What has happened here is that the vinegar reacted with the protein molecules that cover the surface of the eggshells. This reaction makes the protein molecules of the eggshells become positive and they attract the negatively charged dye molecules. This is the reason why the egg in the blue dye is a darker blue. What has happened to the red one? Because some of the dye molecules become lodged in the crevices of the eggs in the dye without vinegar, they do have some color, but, there should be a distinct difference in the intensity of the colors.

This is one of our examples of easy science projects that actually require a little theoretical knowledge. Although the science project itself is very easy and simple, you have to know why it happened. I do recommend that you get a good e-book to help you with your science fair projects to make very sure you are doing them correctly. I can strongly recommend an e-book such as 24 Hour Science Projects!
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Elementary Science Fair Projects: A Note To Parents

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Here Is Another Elementary Science Fair Projects Using Straws 

Example of a Elementary Science Fair Project

Elementary Science Fair Project: Making a Straw Atomizer.

In this elementary science fair project we are going to have a look at how the normal window cleaning sprays and some perfume atomizers work. You will be surprised at how simple it really is. Science experiments need not be difficult and they do not have to use hard to come by supplies; you can use simple things in and around the house and have lots of fun learning.

First of all, can you think why these atomizers work? How is it possible for you to use a straw to demonstrate it? Why do you think it works? When you answer all these questions you are forming your hypothesis. When you do your experiment, you will try and prove your hypothesis and when you are finished you will have the result and you will know whether your hypothesis was correct or not.

What You Need For Your Project 

Science Fair Projects Ideas

Here is what you will need for this elementary science fair project :


  • A glass of water

  • A straw

  • A pair of scissors

How To Of Your Elementary Science Project 

This is what you need to do for this elementary science fair project:


  1. First you have to make a slit in your straw about 1/3 from the one end.

  2. Now you have to bend the straw at the slit and you have to place the short part of the straw in your glass of water.

  3. The slit has to be about 1/4 inch above the surface of the water in your glass.

  4. To produce a spray you have to blow hard through the long section of the straw that you have placed into the water.

  5. What happens when you blow through the long section of the straw?

  6. Why do you think it happens?

Conclusion Of Your Science Project 

Your conclusion:

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Now onto our explanation; what happens here is that as you blow into the straw you are blowing a stream of air over the top of the short part of the straw.
This stream of air reduces the air pressure at the point where the slit in the straw is.

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Elementary Science Fair Projects: Bending A Straw Elementary Science fair Project 

Easy Science Fair Projects

Here is a very easy science experiment that can be added to all our straw elementary science fair projects. If you add all these straw experiments together, the ones you have already, this one and the ones that are going to follow you will have an impressive elementary science fair project. If you say to me, on the other hand, that you do not have time and that your elementary science fair project is due, I strongly recommend and e-book such as 24 Hour Science Projects that gives you complete elementary science fair projects that can be done in 24 hours or less.

What you need for this elementary science fair projects:

  • A glass half filled with water

  • A straw

  • a camera

Taking Your Photos 

It will be necessary to take photos of this "experiment" because it mainly shows you what happens when light travel through water in stead of just through air and how you experience it visually. Your photos with your explanations will thus be all you have to display. I agree that as an experiment alone, it is a little skimpy but, combined with all the other "straw" experiments it is an interesting addition.

This is what you have to do for your science experiments: 


  1. Place your straw in your glass of water.

  2. Now you have to look at the straw from the top, the bottom and the sides of the glass.

  3. What do you see?

  4. Now you also have to take photos from all these positions. It may not be very easy, but, with the help of an adult you should be able to do it.

  5. What do you see from all these different positions?

  6. What do you think are the reason for what you see?

  7. Try to explain it.

Explanation: 

If you are looking at the straw from all the right angles, you will see that when you look at the straw through the side of the glass, it looks as though the straw is bent or even broken. The reason is that light travels slower through water than through air. What happens now is that the light above the water reaches your eyes sooner than the air that has to travel through the water. It is this phenomena that that let it appear as if the straw is bent or broken.

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Easy Elementary Science Projects: Holding a Glass With a Balloon! 

In this easy elementary science project we are going to see that air presses in all directions. We are going to be able to hold a glass by a balloon inside the glass. This can even be a very good party trick. This is one of our easy elementary science projects that shows you how much fun science can be. Do get permission before you do this experiment just for incase something goes wrong and the glass breaks.

What you need for this experiment:

  • A glass

  • A balloon


How to do this project:

  1. Hold the glass in one hand and with your other hand let the balloon dangle inside the glass.

  2. Blow into the balloon. If you find this difficult it may be a good idea to get some help.

  3. As the balloon inflates, the part of the balloon that is inside the balloon will swell out and touch the sides of the glass.

  4. Continue blowing until the pressure of the air inside the balloon is so high against the sides of the glass that you can remove your hand holding the balloon and lift the glass by holding the end of the balloon.


This little easy elementary science project is not enough for a complete science fair project, but as we add other experiments that use air pressure you will gradually build up a complete science fair project.

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Easy Elementary Science Projects: Combinations That Changes Volume 

Here are two fun and easy elementary science projects to show that when you mix two substances they do not necessarily give a resulting material that has the volume of the two substances added together.

Sand and beads experiment

This is what you need:

  • 2 Cup measuring cup

  • A large container

  • Sand

  • Large beads



This is how you do this experiment:

  1. Measure 1 cup sand and place it in your large container.

  2. Now you measure 1 cup of your large beads and place that in the container as well.

  3. In the container, mix the two well with your hand.

  4. Now pour this mixture back into your measuring cup.

  5. What happens? Yes, you will see that the mixture takes up less space than the two cups they took up when they were separate.

  6. Can you think why that is? When your large beads are in the cup, when you measure them, they have empty space around them. When you mix the two, the sand fills up those spaces. The result is a smaller volume than when they were separate.

Now we try this experiment with water and sugar 

What you need:

  • 2 Cup measuring cup again

  • A large container

  • Water

  • Sugar

  • A Spoon


What to do:

  1. Carefully measure one cup of sugar and pour it into your container.

  2. Measure one cup of water and add it to the sugar.

  3. Thoroughly mix them with your spoon. It will not be possible to dissolve all the sugar.

  4. Pour the mixture back into your measuring cup.

  5. What has happened? Yes, once again the mixture takes up less space. The volume is not a full two cups anymore.

  6. Can you think why not? The reason is that the water molecules are smaller than those of the sugar and it fills up some of the spaces around the sugar molecules.


These two easy elementary science projects are ideal to introduce homeschoolers to the whole concept of molecules and also of volume.

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Easy Elementary Science Projects: Another Combination That Changes Volume When Mixed 

In the previous experiment we looked at what happens when you mix water and sugar and also what happens when you mix beads and sand. Now here is one more, mixing water and alcohol. I'm sure you must be thinking that if you mix water and alcohol the resulting mixture must surely be double? Well let see what happens!

What you need for your experiment:

  • A tall thin jar

  • A piece of tape to mark your jar

  • A measuring cup

  • Water rubbing alcohol (the closer to 100% the more dramatic the end result will be)

  • A large container

  • A Container of any size


What you have to do:

NB: In this experiment it is most important that you measure very accurately!

  1. Carefully and very accurately measure half a cup of water into your jar.

  2. With the tape mark the line of the water in the jar very accurately. (Be sure not to make a parallax mistake)

  3. Pour the water into your bowl

  4. Now carefully measure the same amount of alcohol in the jar so that it comes up exactly to your mark.

  5. Pour the alcohol into the big container.

  6. Mix the water and alcohol together.

  7. Now very carefully pour some of your mixture into the jar exactly up to the mark you made. Be very careful not to spill any of your mixture.

  8. Now you pour this into your other container.

  9. Carefully pour the rest of your mixture into the jar.

  10. What do you see?

  11. Does the remaining mixture fill the jar up to your mark?


If you did this easy elementary science project correct, the mixture will not fill up the jar to the mark. The mixture is not a full cup even though it consists of a half cup of water and a half cup of alcohol.
Can you think why?
What happens here is that the water molecules are smaller than the alcohol molecules and therefore the water fills up the spaces that are around the alcohol molecules.

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