12 April 2010

Science Fair FEVER


What can we expect at the upcoming Alan Shawn Feinstein Broad Street Elementary School Science Fair? Here's a photo from a science fair in Iowa, with everyone's privacy shielded. Unfortunately, everybody looks like a blockhead.

Our science fair at ASF Broad St Elementary is also an experiment, because it is the first time this school has had a science fair. The teachers for our 4th and 5th graders are working to make sure every student who participates will have a very clean organized presentation, with the title, hypothesis, problem, method, and findings (conclusion) clearly set out on a trifold board.

Some scientists will have photographs. Some will make use of graphs. Some scientists will find out that their project will prove what they set out to prove when they wrote their hypothesis. But some scientists, like Brenlee N, will have their hypothesis go CRAZZZY.

Brenlee and her partner put one plant in sunlight for 5 days, and one in a closet for 5 days. Neither plant got any water. While we know sunlight is like food for plants, it turns out the plant in the closet grew a lot and the one in the sunlight just sat there. Tomorrow we will look at how this could happen.