Does velocity of wind affect the tide?

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Any idea on how to conduct an experiment on this question ? Thought of charting data on tides in a specific place but was told that is not an experiment. Any ideas of an actual experiment a 10 year old can do to answer this question?

[donnahardy2]

Hi,

This is a great topic for a science fair project, however, it would be challenging to do. Your child’s teacher is right; just recording tides would not be an experiment. However, if you are close to the ocean, it would be possible to get the tide table for a specific location and then compare the measurement of the actual tide and a measurement of the wind speed. Your child could find out if the wind speed has any effect on the actual tide.

To get results, it would be necessary to do this study over several weeks or months so different wind speeds would occur.
However, for a 10 year old, I think it would be better to pick a slightly easier experiment and focus on completing each step of the science fair project. This would be a good experience to help with future science experiments.

Here is an idea for an experiment on tides that should be doable for a 10-year old.

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... #procedure

Or, since you are just starting, you can go to the topic selection wizard on this website and have your child pick another topic of interest.

Please do post again if you have more questions.

Donna