5th - 8th Grade Engineering and Science Inquiry Activities : Page 8

This science experiment examines the role of fat in food, especially in making bread rise and whipping cream.

Throughout history, people have used song as a teaching and memory tool. This project explores whether song improves a person's ability to retain information.

This science fair project creates a visual model of whatâs happening to sound waves as a car approaches and then leaves.

Learn about the power of exponents. The objective of this science fair project is to explore and understand how exponents are used.

You've heard all about oil spills, but can they really be that bad? After all, vegetable oil is in almost every yummy baking good from cookies to brownies.

This science fair project idea provides evidence that air is everywhere and takes up space.

This project examines what types of objects burn and which burn faster and cleaner.

In this science fair project, you'll make a "ghost" appear in a test tube, and learn about what happens when hot water and cold water interact.

The objective this science fair project is to determine whether a bigger bag will allow a homemade hot air balloon to fly higher than smaller bag.

In this fun experiment, learn about brand awareness and the influence of media on children by testing logo recognition in different age groups.

Science fair project idea which teaches you how to make butter by separating cream into butter and buttermilk.

This science fair project uses paper chromatography to investigate whether black, brown, orange, and purple are pure colors or mixtures of other colors.

Science fair project which compares the rate of temperature change and the maximum temperature as a result of the angle of light radiation.

Science fair project which determines whether it is numerically possible to be connected to every person on the earth within six degrees of separation.

What is the hydrologic cycle and how does it work? Check out this fun and easy science project where you will model and learn about Earth's water cycle!

This science fair project idea explores whether the process used to dry the beans we eat for food renders them unviable.

Here is a cool and easy science project to determine the rate of chlorophyll breaks down and how it affects the color change of grass from green to yellow.

Science fair project which tests various sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks to find out whether one rock family is stronger than the others.

In this science fair project, students use the streak test to tell minerals apart from each other.

The goal of this science fair project is to demonstrate different ways to generate static electricity and record its effects.

Students explore hot desert plant adaptations in this cool science fair project by observing how these organisms prevent excessive transpiration.

Science fair project that develops latent fingerprints on a non-porous objects by converting superglue from a solid state to a gaseous state.

Demonstrate how static electricity can cause an object to move. It also examines just how an object affected by static electricity will move.

Discover whether the â5-second ruleâ is effective at determining whether food is still safe to eat after being dropped on the ground.

Science fair project in which you will attempt to throw a ball the greatest horizontal distance possible by using different angles.

The objective of this science fair project is to examine the basic principles of air pressure using simple materials like a balloon, straw and string.

This science fair project examines how seeds hitchhike on animals and clothing.

This science fair project explores how osmotic pressure forces water through the root up into the plant.

Kids will learn about insulation, heat conduction, and the economic benefits of energy efficient windows in this cool science fair project.

This science fair project idea investigates how a bottom keel helps keep a boat from rocking back and forth.