Got my LAST science fair project to do this year. 2 down and 1 to go.

Any of you do science fair that had to do with hunting or fishing?

Ideas appreciated.

What grade level are we dealing with ?

WOW Bean! This was a really long time ago but it brought back memories. When my kids were in school I got into the science projects. One of my sons did a project called "ANTLERS". It showed the yearly cycle of antler growth in deer. It had a lot of photos of deer in different stages of antler growth. Some shed antlers and deer skulls on display. It was a big hit. I was raising Fallow deer at the time so the pictures and sheds were easy. Just an idea.

6th grade

Ice fishing... a lot of science there!

When I was about that age, I caught a little bass... maybe 6" long. Brought him home and put him in an aquarium and fed him worms, minnows crawdads... whatever I could come up with. Took him to school for a science fair and had some charts and some info on some poster board... Won 1st place. Judges LOVED IT. I went to a private school so everyone had real complicated projects. I HAD A LIVE FISH!

As a scientist and several year science fair judge, I would recommend going with something with a testable hypothesis, well developed experiments, good controls, and data to support or refute the hypothesis.

They will be looking for this type of work for the 6th grade level.

A fancy poster is nice, but did not effect my grading much...it's pretty obvious when the parents did the poster/project for the kid =)

The kids who I scored high and I chose as winners did not always have the 'coolest project', but did have a good testable hypothesis and could explain it, their methods, their data, and conclusions....the topic really did not matter much.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5REsCTG4-Gg

I showed my class this one last year before we did our projects. It is very cool.

My son did an arrow penetration test using different weight field points. He used 75,100,125,150,175. He used same bow and same arrow and shot each tip 3 shots. It turned out nice. We did it at our local indoor archery range.

great idea!

If you have a chronograph, you could play on the arrow test mentioned above but with speed. Theoretically, the speed should decrease at a linear rate as you increase arrow weight, but what could be seen is that the bow will become more efficient as arrow weight goes up and the decrease in speed will slow down (amount of speed lost per grains increased, will decrease).

I like the arrow idea.

I did one on the hibernation of a turtle in 4th or 5th grade. I had a snapping turtle shell from a pretty good sized turtle my dad had caught. By about the third day on display the shell and mud and water that it was in smelled awful, i mean whole school smelled! LOL, I got to take my project home early!

i did one as a child on photosynthesis. I bought 15 plants. put 5 in a container with no light, 5 with 12 hours of light, and 5 with 24 hours of light. was interesting and did pretty well. measured the plant's growth over a 5 week period.

Thanks guys for all the ideas. Luke has decided to: Compare the Strength of Different Types of Fishing Line.

We couldn't talk mom into the gopro outer space project. That was really cool.

I want to see the results of this!

Very cool idea! Sounds like fun! Post pics of the project if you can, please? :p

I I put my vote on suffix 832 as the strongest superline !

I beg to differ…….Power Pro!!!!!!!!

Let me low if you need any samples. I have all kinds of line of various test strengths laying around.

Yeah......that what I use to think before switching to Suffix832 You need to fish in some of snag infested rivers and get off the big water to really put it to the test

If I can make a suggestion have him test the lines with different knots. Not all knots will hold 100% of the line strength. h.h.

Good suggestion. I was going to have him use an improved clinch to make it universal for the test.

You may consider a Palomar knot when testing superlines..........it is the shizzle.......BTW if you need any power pro .....I have a lot laying around that I'm not using

bean, I also have some Suffix832 on my little Niece's Snoopy rod that she bluegill fishes with. Its 20 lb test, but she keeps breaking it on those little gills!!!! :p It NEEDS tested!!!!!

Be advised bean.......you get what you pay for..........Yaz knows what I'm talking about........I'm just glad he isn't fishing with that Snoopy pole anymore

You don't know that for sure……... And what if I am?????? :p

He is.... :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :p

Ok the results:

We used a digital scale to measure the poundage of each line strength and a ratchet to slowly add tension.

All line was rated 20#.
All was tied w/ improved clinch
All broke AWAY from the knot - which I found very interesting.

Trilene Big Game mono broke at 21#
Pline Fluoro broke at 24#
Spiderwire braid broke at 18#.

We both thought braid would be stronger but it was Fluorocarbon.

He got an "A" and I am now done with science fairs.

Cool! Congrats on the grade!

That is dang cool. Now, if there is a "next" project, how about trying the same thing but at difference line temperatures to emulate varied conditions of water temperature to see if the lines act the same way at different temps. Just a thought!

Someone at my daughter's school did the exact same project, and got first prize today.