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 (21–30)
Virus and Vaccine
There are many diseases in the world that are caused by viruses, including influenza.
While vaccines exist to prevent some of them, in eras before vaccines were developed, countless people lost their lives to viruses.
Let’s explore the past and present of viruses and vaccines by focusing on several specific diseases.
fruit battery
This is an experiment where you make a battery by inserting copper and zinc plates into fruit—not just lemons.
It could be interesting to consider which fruits perform best and why.
You can verify that it functions as a battery in various ways, such as lighting a small bulb or spinning a motor.
Dent a plastic bottle without using your hands
Speaking of junior high school students, summer vacation assignments increase, so I think many end up prioritizing other subjects over their independent research projects.
But if you can finish an independent project in a single day, isn’t it worth a try? This time, it’s an experiment to dent a plastic bottle without using your hands.
What you need: a 500 ml plastic bottle, a measuring cup, and 150 ml of hot water.
The steps are simple, so give it a try!
Ice Experiment
Let’s try freezing various liquids found at home—for example, water, soy sauce, detergent, and shampoo.
Put liquids that seem likely to freeze into containers of the same shape and freeze them.
Since different liquids take different amounts of time to turn to ice, observe and record them every 5 minutes.
Once a liquid solidifies and becomes ice, weigh it and investigate which ice melts the fastest.
Primary colors of light
There are many kinds of colors we see in our daily lives.
Let’s take a look with our own eyes at the three primary colors of light that we learn about in art class.
It’s also said that the range of colors perceived differs between Japanese people and foreigners.
It might be interesting to explore how many colors we’re able to distinguish.
Turn a raw egg into a super ball
This is a curious experiment: can you make a super ball out of an egg? Let’s think about why such a phenomenon occurs.
Then let’s also test what happens if we leave it longer, and whether the same thing happens with other round foods.
It seems calcium is involved, so it might be just like what we learned at school!
Boiling hot water with ice
We’re told that the temperature at which water boils is 100°C.
However, if you keep heating pure water in a clean container, a phenomenon can occur where the temperature exceeds 100°C without boiling.
This happens because there are no impurities to serve as nucleation sites for boiling.
Therefore, if you add ice in this state, the water will transition to a boiling state in an instant—this is the experiment.