Recommended for middle school students! A collection of quick science project ideas you can do in a short time.

A science project you can just leave alone

[Top 3 Recommended Science Projects] Simple yet Impactful ✨

It’s hard to decide what to do for an independent research project, and you don’t want to spend too much time on it, right? So why not try some ideas that you can basically just set and forget? Here are three simple projects.

The first is to line colorful candy-coated chocolates around the rim of a plate, pour in water, and observe what happens.

The second is to soak an egg in vinegar to make a “skeleton egg.” The third is to dip kitchen paper into colored water and observe how it absorbs and changes color.

All of them are very easy, so give them a try!

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sasashina

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What is AR?

[Easy-to-Understand IT] Toward a more convenient society with AR (Augmented Reality)

How about looking into AR, which has been attracting attention in games and smartphone apps? Given its high convenience, I believe it will continue to be useful to society, so it might even be helpful for your future career.

Also, try comparing the differences between AR and VR.

How does pitch change?

Let's investigate what changes the pitch of a sound! [Independent Research]

This is an experiment about how pitch changes.

For example, even instruments with similar shapes, like the violin and the double bass, produce different pitches.

The large double bass is low, while the small violin is high.

It seems the size of the cavity affects the sound.

To test this, we’ll change the cavity size by adding water to a test tube and blow across it to check the pitch.

Let’s prepare various conditions—length and thickness of the test tube, the size of the cavity, and other factors that affect the sound—and compare the results!

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Murakami Shinpei

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Cheesemaking

[Use Up Lots of Milk] Super Easy! How to Make Homemade Cottage Cheese [kattyanneru]

Cheese is high in protein and good for your body, so many people make a point of eating it, don’t they? People of all ages love it.

Did you know you can easily make this cheese yourself using just milk and lemon juice? If you make it at home, you can enjoy fresh cheese whenever you want, in whatever amount you need.

Plus, by learning how milk turns into cheese, you gain scientific knowledge, and by experimenting with variations, you can enjoy the home economics side of things.

Give it a try!

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Hirakawa Masako (Bōkarisuto: Sakata Mizumako)

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The workings of the economy

The mechanisms of money and the world’s economy

The phrase “how the economy works” might sound difficult on its own, but please try researching it as part of your social studies.

If you look into things like the relationship between retail and wholesale or how money circulates, you might find it surprisingly interesting.

Try summarizing it in an easy-to-understand chart.

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Araki Jakkan

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Maze vs. Pillbug

Verified in a maze! Alternating turn response of pill bugs [Independent Research]

Pill bugs curl up as soon as you touch them.

Many of you probably gathered lots of pill bugs for no particular reason when you were little.

Yet many people may not actually know their behavior.

They have a habit called alternation of turning, where after turning right they are highly likely to turn left next, and after turning left they are likely to turn right.

There are various theories about the reason—such as escaping from predators or maximizing food intake.

If you test them in a maze, you’ll get very interesting results.

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Hirakawa Masako (Bōkarisuto: Sakata Mizumako)

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Handmade Microscope

Handmade Microscope ~ From Beads and Plastic Bottles ~

This is a handmade microscope using a plastic bottle and a bead.

The mechanism is simple, but you can see finer details than you might expect.

The bead acts like a large convex lens.

Try challenging yourself to see vegetable cells, such as the skin of an onion.

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