I am a BIG fan of science, somewhat of a science groupie if you will. To point, many of my tattoos are science related. I have Ockham’s Razor, Darwin’s Finches and one of Galileo’s sketches of the moon. I lack the training and/or mental horsepower to endeavor to do any real science myself, but I love learning about what others have done and discovered. So, it was with great excitement that I got to attend my daughter’s first science fair last night.
The auditorium was filled with table after table of earnest third grade experiments. I saw many volcanoes, electrical circuits and pop corn taste tests (how come I never thought of that??).
Here are some highlights from my trip to the science fair. I’m not sure exactly what this one was demonstrating…
But it made me giggle. If I had a nickel for every time I’ve ever made a gas.
This kid came to the conclusion, after all of his hard work, that venus fly traps are lazy!
I’m not sure about the methodology of this experiment, but the results were pretty hilarious.
They played music for five different plants to see how they would respond to different musical genres, including: pop, rock, rap and country (one plant was the control and didn’t listen to anything). The plants listened to everything from Hannah Montana to Bruce Springsteen.
What the girls concluded is what we’ve all always known, no one can stand The Dixie Chicks!
But the best project I saw in the whole fair was the one which set out to determine which laundry detergent works the best on stains (Oxi Clean, duh!). Okay, so it was my daughter’s project.
Scientists are supposed to be impartial, dad’s don’t have to be!
Arlo
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