It is well known that students (and everyone) learn more comprehensively when practiced in a project based manner. Here are some ideas of some simple project learning experiments to do with your student. Have fun! Feel free to let us know how your student(s) did.
Potato chip bag in a microwave. This is a lesson in polymers. Put a wrapper from your favorite chips into the microwave for five seconds and see how polymers return to their natural state when exposed to the heat. Adult supervision required!
Change the color of a Carnation flower. This teaches how stems are the life-blood for plant growth. Kids always love this experiment and it’s very easy with zero mess. Take a carnation, split the stem and place one side of the stem in clean water and the other side of the stem in water with food coloring in it. Then watch what happens.
Shine a penny. This teaches how acid reacts with salt, resulting in the best cleaning solution for copper, among other metals.
Floating oranges. This is a lesson in density. Put an orange with the skin in a tall glass of water. Then put an orange without the skin in another tall glass of water. What is in the rind to make an orange float?
The famous egg in a bottle. This popular experiment shows how air pressure and temperature can make an egg slide through a small bottle top; all by itself. Adult supervision needed.
