<p>I need suggestions! I'm in Honors Chemistry and my teacher gave us our research paper that is due in a month. It isn't necessarily a paper he's kind of lax on what we can do. </p>
<p>We have to learn about and present our knowledge of "the chemistry of ___________" </p>
<p>I was going to do the chemistry in education. But I want to do something really interesting. My friend is going to talk about the chemistry in eating disorders. I was thinking about also doing chemistry of love...like talk about pheromones and such. If I did this I was thinking about doing a documentary or video on what attracts people to things. I don't know if that sounds stupid. If I do one on chemistry education, I'm thinking about teaching something that we haven't covered in class. </p>
<p>We can use books, doc video, internet, interview w/ experts in area of research. We just have to cite our sources. And we can do but not limited to: written reports, power point, demonstrations, videos, posters presentations, and speeches. </p>
<p>Please give me suggestions and ideas! I would like to either do power point, demonstrations, and/or videos. I don't want to do anything with lots of math related topics (I actually hate math and science) but rather things related to the biochemistry. </p>
<p>*Note: really not trying to get you all to do my homework just don't have any ideas.</p>
<p>^I agree…my science fair project was to see if using baking powder or baking soda in cookies would create a cookie with greater height, it worked well and my house smelled really good!</p>
<p>If you go with this make sure you have an oven thermometer and a timer so the leavener is the only variable.</p>
<p>Fireworks - different elements create different colors.
Cell phone batteries - reversible chemical reaction allows recharging.
Perms - chemical bonds are broken and formed within the hair to change its shape.
Spider silk - lightweight, yet as strong as steel. How do they do it?
Tooth decay - bacteria produce acid that decays teeth, but how does fluoride help?
Super Glue - how does it bond so strongly so quiickly?
Lightning bugs - how they create that glow, or bioluminescence in general.</p>
<p>Chemistry of Love is kind of cute, considering the word “chemistry” and romance often go hand in hand. :)</p>
<p>Maybe…</p>
<p>Chemistry of the elements? (earth, wind, fire, water)
You could do a little bit with that.</p>
<p>Chemistry of sports?</p>
<p>Chemistry of everyday life?
ex: talk about the types of amino acids you can find in everyday things such as toothpaste and drinking water</p>
<p>Wow I’m in Chemistry this year myself and I feel like I’m braindead when it comes to ideas.
But maybe that’s because I haven’t gotten any sleep in 2 days, haha.</p>
<p>Last year I did a chemiluminescence presentation, and even did an experiment that made chemicals light up, for the class. You could modify it to do Chemistry of Light, which is bound to be super interesting (chemiluminiscence, phosphorescence, etc…maybe even bring in a glostic or make one yourself).</p>
<p>then for bio stuff, there’s bioluminescene. Dinoflagellates!</p>
<p>Let that inspire whatever you want it to inspire. I’ve always wanted to make a book on that.</p>
<p>The chemistry of everyday life also works, you could do a saponification experiment and make soap! like take a video of the process to make it and then show the video and bring in the finished soap to class.</p>
