High school students often cringe when the teacher assigns an investigatory project. The thought of having to buckle down and complete a project can undoubtedly be daunting. The good news is though, that there is help out there for this sort of dilemma. As, the sheer prospect of not knowing what project to choose is scary enough in itself, a helpful and detailed list of possible investigatory
. projects for high school students has been printed below. For more general information about investigatory projects, go to http://www.reference.com/motif/ Science/examples+of+investigatory+projects.Nothing But Net: The science of shooting hoops: Projects like this one deal with measuring the percentages of basketball players who shoot the ball from different levels of the body. This can also be turned into a physics examination for more of a challenge. Key words for this project include arc, backspin, trajectory and shooting percentage.Domino Theory: This project deals with experimenting on the set-up of dominoes. Students would test different combinations of spacing between dominoes and number of dominoes, among other variables in order to see if the speed of the domino chain falling down increases or decreases.Paintball Ballistics: This type of project allows the student to play around with paintball guns. The purpose of the investigation is to see what factors influence a shot with a paintball gun. Ballistics of the shot will be explored, including, but not limited to gravity, velocity and density.Football: Place-kicking: For any football fans, this project investigates how a payer's distance from the goal line affects the success of the field goal. Ground level would also be tested to see if it factored into this success-rate.Other related projects include:
Studying the relation between vegetation and insects
Studying air purification methods
Efficient methods of breaking down crude oil in seawater
Experimenting with microbial degradation of petroleum
Experimenting with biodegradability
Finding an ink that would decompose for recycling paper
Using solar energy to purify polluted or salt water
There are countless internet and print sources available to aid your search for the perfect investigatory project idea, so don't fret!
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