How Does An 11-year Old Build A Heat Detector For A Science Project?

A thermometer?

What you might do is try to capture the heat and get it do do something for you. This in effect will reveal that the heat is there.

A really simple example would be to heat up water.

Get a pyrex beaker, fill it with a suitable amount of water (say 100 ml).

Whatever other phenomena is supposed to give off heat, place it underneath your beaker in a Bunsen burner set up.

Now, enclose the top of the beaker, and fit some type of turbine or generator to the top (you might be able to buy a small one in a hobby shop).

Think through everything to make sure the water can't overheat, all evaporating and causing the beaker to burst if it gets too hot. And to make sure that health and safety is otherwise covered!

Alternatively you could do the reaction inside a beaker, and place the beaker itself inside water in another beaker. Then use a simple thermometer to indicate changes in temperature of the outside water.

Think about chemical reactions that only take place when heat is added, or that happen more dramitically or faster depending on how much heat there is, too.

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Age doesn't matter..you can do it..hehehe..

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