6th Grade Experiment Sheet
Name: Morgan Stower
Category: Earth and Space Science
Adapted from: Kranz, G. Et. Al. (1998) Science Fair Make It Work. Chicago, Ill:World Book, Inc.
Title of Experiment:
Experiment or Problem: Which color ping-pong ball will collect more solar energy- a black one, or a white one?
Hypothesis: It is believed that the black ping-pong ball will collect more solar energy.
Independent Variable: The color of the ball.
Dependent Variable: The temperature of the ball.
Control (if applicable): None
Constant Factors: This is everything that is staying the same or everything except your Independent and Dependent Variables. You may add as many items as you need.
A thermometer will be used to measure the internal temperature of each ping-pong ball.
Materials: List all of your materials. Be specific. Be sure to use metric units.
Name: Morgan Stower
Category: Earth and Space Science
Adapted from: Kranz, G. Et. Al. (1998) Science Fair Make It Work. Chicago, Ill:World Book, Inc.
Title of Experiment:
Experiment or Problem: Which color ping-pong ball will collect more solar energy- a black one, or a white one?
Hypothesis: It is believed that the black ping-pong ball will collect more solar energy.
Independent Variable: The color of the ball.
Dependent Variable: The temperature of the ball.
Control (if applicable): None
Constant Factors: This is everything that is staying the same or everything except your Independent and Dependent Variables. You may add as many items as you need.
- Type of flower pot
- Type of ping-pong ball
- Aluminum pie plates
- Thermometer
- The soil used to weigh down the flower pots
- The dowels
- The duct tape
- The location of the experiment
A thermometer will be used to measure the internal temperature of each ping-pong ball.
Materials: List all of your materials. Be specific. Be sure to use metric units.
- Six flower pots
- Six Ping-pong balls
- Black paint
- Six pencils or dowels
- Six Aluminum pie pans
- Thermometer
- Soil, sand, or rocks to weigh down the flower pots
- Six 2.5 cm square of duct tape
- Fill the six flower pots to the top with soil.
- Insert the dowels in the center of each flower pot.
- Poke a hole in the center of each pie plate and slide over the dowel until there is 10cm of dowel above the pie plate.
- Paint 3 ping-pong balls black.
- Create a hole in each of the six ping-pong balls that is just large enough for the dowel to fit through.
- Create a hole in each of the six ping-pong balls that is just large enough for the thermometer to fit through. This hole should be on the side of the ball so as not to be directly across from the hole for the dowel.
- Place the ping-pong balls on the ends of the dowels.
- Create a duct tape flap that is 2.5cm square for each of the thermometer holes.
- Place the duct tape over each of the thermometer holes.
- Place all six of the solar collectors in the location where the experiment will be run.
- Angle the pie plates so that they can reflect the sunlight onto the ping-pong balls.
- Collect temperatures from each of the ping-pong balls at least twice a day for as many days are possible from October 5th to October 31st.
6th Grade Science Fair 2018/2019
Below are the Due Dates for Science Fair. These dates are subject to change. Please note that
the 6th grade class will be doing an experiment, but will not be doing a research paper.
All paperwork will be done in Google Classroom. Therefore, most dates will NOT be
affected if we are to miss any school due to inclement weather.
**YOUR GOOGLE CLASSROOM CODE APPEARS HERE ON YOUR PAPER COPY OF DUE DATES**
Sept 12 - Proposal Assigned
Sept 20 - Proposal Due
Sept 24 - Experiment Sheet Assigned
Sept 28 - Experiment Sheet Due
Oct 1 - BEGIN RUNNING EXPERIMENTS
Oct 15 - Conclusions and Applications Assigned
Oct 31 - EXPERIMENTS COMPLETED
Nov 5 - Conclusions and Applications Due
Nov 5 - Display Board Assigned
Nov 19 - Display Board Due
the 6th grade class will be doing an experiment, but will not be doing a research paper.
All paperwork will be done in Google Classroom. Therefore, most dates will NOT be
affected if we are to miss any school due to inclement weather.
**YOUR GOOGLE CLASSROOM CODE APPEARS HERE ON YOUR PAPER COPY OF DUE DATES**
Sept 12 - Proposal Assigned
Sept 20 - Proposal Due
Sept 24 - Experiment Sheet Assigned
Sept 28 - Experiment Sheet Due
Oct 1 - BEGIN RUNNING EXPERIMENTS
Oct 15 - Conclusions and Applications Assigned
Oct 31 - EXPERIMENTS COMPLETED
Nov 5 - Conclusions and Applications Due
Nov 5 - Display Board Assigned
Nov 19 - Display Board Due
7th & 8th Grade Science Fair 2018/2019
Below are the Due Dates for Science Fair. These dates are subject to change.
All paperwork will be done in Google Classroom. Therefore, most dates will NOT be
affected if we are to miss any school due to inclement weather.
**YOUR GOOGLE CLASSROOM CODE APPEARS HERE ON YOUR PAPER COPY OF DUE DATES**
Sept 12 - Proposal Assigned
Sept 20 - Proposal Due
Sept 24 - Experiment Sheet Assigned
Sept 28 - Experiment Sheet Due
Oct 1 - BEGIN RUNNING EXPERIMENTS
- Data Table and Graphs Assigned
Oct 15 - Conclusions and Applications Assigned
Oct 31 - EXPERIMENTS COMPLETED
Nov 5 - Conclusions and Applications Due
- Data Table and Graphs Due
Nov 5 - PAPER BEGINS
- Outline Assigned with Sources included in each section
- References Assigned
Nov 19 - Outline and References Due
- Rough Draft Assigned
Dec 10 - Rough Draft Due
Jan 3 - Final Paper Assigned
- Display Board Assigned
- Abstract Assigned
Jan 14 - Final Paper Due
Jan 18 - Abstract Due
Jan 21 - Display Board Due
All paperwork will be done in Google Classroom. Therefore, most dates will NOT be
affected if we are to miss any school due to inclement weather.
**YOUR GOOGLE CLASSROOM CODE APPEARS HERE ON YOUR PAPER COPY OF DUE DATES**
Sept 12 - Proposal Assigned
Sept 20 - Proposal Due
Sept 24 - Experiment Sheet Assigned
Sept 28 - Experiment Sheet Due
Oct 1 - BEGIN RUNNING EXPERIMENTS
- Data Table and Graphs Assigned
Oct 15 - Conclusions and Applications Assigned
Oct 31 - EXPERIMENTS COMPLETED
Nov 5 - Conclusions and Applications Due
- Data Table and Graphs Due
Nov 5 - PAPER BEGINS
- Outline Assigned with Sources included in each section
- References Assigned
Nov 19 - Outline and References Due
- Rough Draft Assigned
Dec 10 - Rough Draft Due
Jan 3 - Final Paper Assigned
- Display Board Assigned
- Abstract Assigned
Jan 14 - Final Paper Due
Jan 18 - Abstract Due
Jan 21 - Display Board Due