Sunday, July 4, 2010

Observations

Happy 4th of July!   Despite trying to think of a red, white, and blue science project, I could not.  June was an incredibly busy month for us and we are exhausted.  Unfortunately July is turning into another busy month.  Hopefully we can enjoy the lazy days of summer in August with many afternoons spent swimming in the lake!  

I saw these dinosaurs in the grocery store and decided that these would be our science project.   


To make this activity scientific, I thought we would graph their growth.

To make them grow, we placed in them into warm water.

After a couple of hours, we measured them and compared the new size to the starting size.




We started this project too late in the day so the boys had to wait until morning for the next measurement.  The dinosaurs grew a lot over night.  I have more of them so I will repeat this activity but start in the morning.