Science Fair

A few weeks ago the girls' school had a science fair. We did not make the girls enter but Emily chose to. She is facinated by all things related to science. She loves to figure out why things work, how things work, and why things in our world are the way they are. Well we decided to try to see if we could get different fruits and vegetables to power a clock. Keep in mind that the science fair occurred the week after we returned from Christmas break and we forgot about the whole project during the break. Mommy went to the store and purchased a variety of fruits and vegetables on that Monday. After school, we sat down to try and connect a clock to the lemons which we knew *should* work for sure. We had no luck. We tried all different ways of connecting it (to the point that Emily was no longer interested in working on the project) Okay we had to figure out FAST what kind of project to do with all the fruits and vegetables. Mommy remembered the old baking soda/vinegar trick and realized that Emily did not know about this. We decided to add baking soda to the juice of all of the fruits to see what would happen. We got a lot of pretty neat reactions so we recorded them and researched why they happened. Emily was a trooper and did a lot of recording data and putting information on her display. Turns out, she got 2nd place in the second grade division (it was actually honorable mention but there were only two prizes per grade) We are very proud of her. Not sure if it was a good lesson learned though (waiting until the last minute and still succeeding) but there is always the other lesson of wait until the last minute and work your hiney off! Here are some pictures of her project: