The weekend before last, we worked on Emma and Sophie's science fair projects. It pretty much consumed that weekend, however the kids had fun.
Sophie's project was to better understand the process of excavating dinosaur bones. To help, we got her two different dinosaur excavasion kits and she and Beth went to work. This meant wearing goggles while she slowly chipped away at sandstone. The process ended putting the bones together into a dino-skeleton model. The first kit took 2.5 hours and the second took 40 minutes. Once this was done, it was time to get the display ready, which looked fabulous.
Emma's project was to determine if the width of a wing affects lift. This was up to she and I. We made 8 different paper airplanes with various wing types and three balsa wood planes. These were each flown 10 different times and were ranked for the one that flew the furtherest to the one that flew the shortest. We graphed the results then came to the conclusion that the width of a wing is not the sole dertimining factor in lift. Then it came time to build the display.
The science fair was last Wednsday. It was really neat to see all of the different projects. For grades 3 to 5, the winner in each grade would represent the Woodside in the school district science fair on February 19th. All the kids at the school did a wonderful job and we are so proud of Sophie and Emma. And guess what?
Emma won for the third grade!!!! So next Saturday, she will be showing her project at the District Science Fair. Sophie is extreamly happy because she gets a ribbon for participating. She and another 1st grader were the only ones to submit a project!!!
I will give an update next week on how everything goes.
Great job girls!! Auntie Katie loves science too:-) I am so proud of bith of you!!
ReplyDeleteI meant both of you;-) Typing may not be my strongest subject.
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