Stand out with your junior high school independent research! A collection of fun experiment and craft ideas
To all middle schoolers who want to wow teachers and friends with a “That’s awesome!” in your independent research project! There are tons of experiments in science and crafts that lead to surprising discoveries—even with simple materials.
Make a train run with copper wire and a battery, pop a balloon with an orange peel…
The real charm is getting to witness strange phenomena you’d never notice in everyday life with your own eyes.
Here, we’ll introduce fun experiments and crafts that can spark ideas for your project.
Whether you love science or not, you’re sure to find discoveries that make you go, “Aha!”
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Stand Out with Your Junior High School Independent Research! A Collection of Fun Experiment and Craft Ideas (91–100)
Make a fountain with a plastic bottle
Creating a mechanism to spray water might sound difficult, right? However, this PET-bottle fountain uses a very simple mechanism to eject water.
It’s an experiment where just turning it upside down makes the water spout out, letting you explore the fascinating properties of water.
Transparent cute coaster
Summer is supposed to be hot, but don’t you feel like the summers lately are getting hotter every year? When it’s hot, we crave cold drinks—so why not make coasters to brighten up your drink time and turn it into a summer science project? You’ll be using two-part resin and other chemicals, so be sure to have an adult or an older sibling help you when handling them.
Aside from working with the chemicals, it’s basically just decorating coasters, so even small children can join in! We’re looking forward to seeing your cool, refreshing coasters!
Stand out with your junior high school independent research! A collection of fun experiment and craft ideas (101–110)
The Irritation Stick made with 100-yen store items
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Let’s make a steady-hand game using materials from a 100-yen shop and learn about electricity! The materials are: a foam brick, a personal safety alarm, aluminum wire, copper wire, and vinyl tape.
Remove the switch from the circuit board inside the safety alarm and insert and solder the copper wire.
Wrap the copper wire with vinyl tape to cover it.
Shape the aluminum wire however you like, insert it into the foam brick, and connect one end of the copper wire to it.
Now your steady-hand game is complete! When you touch the remaining copper wire to the aluminum wire, the safety alarm will sound.
If the alarm doesn’t sound, it means the electrical circuit from positive to negative isn’t connected.
Check it again.
A science project you can just leave alone
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!
Let’s try mixing water and oil
This is an experiment to see what happens when you mix water and oil.
First, make colored water by adding food coloring to a glass of water.
In a separate glass, pour in some oil, then carefully pour the colored water on top.
Strangely, the colored water you added last will settle at the bottom of the glass, and the oil will form a layer on top.
Even if you stir it with a stick, they won’t mix at all.
It’s a fun experiment that overturns the common belief that liquids mix with each other.
Give it a try! The non-mixing liquid you make can also be put into a bottle to create a playful decorative piece.
Let’s explore the secrets of sound
Here’s an idea for a flute you can make just by connecting straws.
Prepare straws that are all the same thickness and length.
You’ll need 8 straws for the mouthpiece, and since you’ll place spacer straws between them, prepare an additional 7, for a total of 15.
Cut the spacer straws to 5 cm.
The straws that become the flute pipes will vary in length depending on the pitch, so be sure to measure their lengths carefully with a ruler.
After cutting, seal one end of each straw with tape to make it a closed pipe.
Once everything is connected and glued together, it’s done.
Try experimenting with different lengths to see what sounds they make.
I tried expressing sound with salt
Have you ever used a tuning fork in a science class? There’s an experiment where you place two tuning forks side by side with a screen between them and strike one of the tuning forks.
The result shows that sound carries vibrations through the air to the other tuning fork, creating resonance.
How about a free research project where you visualize sound vibrations using salt? The patterns in the salt change with pitch, which is quite fascinating, and you could also study factors like room temperature and differences between instruments that produce the sound.
Doing this research might make you more sensitive to the “don-don” sound of drums!