The key to getting a good idea is looking around you and finding out what you are interested in. There will be a few questions that you might ask which will not lead to good projects, but most of the time, you will stumble upon a good idea just be asking the types of questions you already ask in your everyday life.
Start by asking the following questions:
Why does that work?
What makes it do that?
Below are some general category
ideas that have been used by students in the past to get them started on interesting
ideas. If you click on the links directly below, you will see some details about
the purpose problem and hypothesis of some ideas used by Christian Fellowship
School students from the past. Remember, these are not all good ideas. Use your
own discretion in deciding which ideas are good ones.
1994 | 1995
| 1996 | 1997 | 1998
| 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004
Project Ideas
Behavioral
Subliminal messages
Is laughter a social interaction
How smell affects memory
Polling innacuracy and bias
Environmental
Effects of chemical or pH changes on water supplies and invertebrates
Finding new ways to filter emissions
Engineering
Cheap artificial limbs
Cheap artificial lung
Polyabsorbant crystals—oil booms
Biological
Oil-eating bacteria
Sound illusions
Physical Science
Piezoelectricity
Power of suggestion
Magnets could clean tap water of impurities
Filter comparisons
Reverse osmosis
Subconscious awareness
Temperatures effects on phosphorescence
Temperatures effects on adhesives
Causes of yawning or contagiousness
Eye dominance
Pessimism and optimism
Murphy’s Law
Group learning vs. individual learning
Model of earthquakes for simulation
Does birth order affect a person’s religious beliefs
Adhesive strengths of different glues
Negative imprints in plants
Hands-free umbrella
Are gambling tendencies linked to age/sex/personality
Correlation between power lines and cancer.
Using Polyabsorbant Crystals (Granular/Powder) to...