| 6th grade science projects are not expected to be | | | | vinegar, and so on. There are many, many different |
| original; it is perfectly okay to do an experiment that | | | | things you can use. To do this project, you will need a |
| has been done before. Some schools start doing | | | | volunteer or two. It would be a good idea to make up |
| science fairs in sixth grade, but they are not usually too | | | | a chart in advance so you can record your results. |
| competitive as their purpose is really to get the | | | | Blindfold your volunteer and put each scent under their |
| students interested. The judges simply want to see | | | | nose one at a time, and record whether or not they |
| that you have put the effort into your project and | | | | were able to identify what the scent was. |
| made up a nice presentation for it. Still, there are | | | | Originality is not the key factor here at this age. The |
| endless ideas of topics you can pick. | | | | judges just want to see that you are capable of |
| One fun idea for 6th grade science projects is to see | | | | performing an experiment on your own, writing up a |
| how well people can identify different smells when | | | | report on it and presenting your finding in an organized, |
| blind folded. This project is fairly simple. All you need is | | | | easy to understand way. There is absolutely nothing |
| a blindfold and a few items with different smells. A | | | | wrong with doing an experiment that has already been |
| few ideas might be vanilla, cinnamon, coffee beans, | | | | done, as long as you try to make it your own. |