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[Middle School Students] Easy One-Day Science Projects and Crafts Ideas

Have you already decided on your summer vacation independent research project? It’s easy to panic when you feel you have to do it but don’t have much time.

For junior high school students like that, here are some simple research and craft ideas you can complete in a day.

Once you gather the necessary materials, you can start right away! For example, there are experiments using everyday items and fun crafts you can make.

If you enjoy it, you’ll finish in no time.

After the experiment, write up your summary and reflections in a report.

That’s the most important part of the project.

Start thinking about it early so you can enjoy your summer vacation!

[Middle School] Easy One-Day Science Projects and Crafts (111–120)

Let’s make an ultra-rich juice

Science independent research: an experiment to make concentrated juice
Let's make an ultra-rich juice

In summer, many people have probably experienced freezing a plastic bottle of sports drink and, when sipping the partially melted liquid, feeling that it tastes “stronger than usual!” Let’s make this phenomenon the theme of a science project: What mechanism causes it? The key is a phenomenon called freezing point depression.

Solutions containing substances like sugar freeze later and melt sooner than pure water.

Based on this, you can investigate and summarize how the perceived increase in flavor strength differs depending on the type of beverage you freeze.

[Middle School Students] Simple One-Day Independent Research and Craft Ideas (121–130)

Static electricity experiment

[At-Home Time] Static Electricity Experiments You Can Do at Home Right Now! Science Experiments
Static electricity experiment

Speaking of static electricity, it’s that sharp little zap you get in winter, but you may also remember creating static in elementary school by rubbing a plastic sheet on your hair or rubbing a straw with a tissue.

When you do that, your hair sticks to the sheet, or the tissue sticks to the straw, right? You might not have understood how it worked back then, but as a high school student, you should be able to grasp and explain the mechanism clearly.

Try summarizing it in your notebook, and then actually rub various materials together to compare how static electricity occurs and organize the differences you observe.

In conclusion

We introduced ideas for simple independent research projects and crafts that you can complete in a single day.

There were quite a few themes that seemed pretty interesting, and all of them are easy to finish in one day if you put your mind to it.

Please use this article as a reference and give them a try! The key is to write a solid summary report afterward.

Do your best so that your project turns out so impressive that no one would guess you did it in just one day!