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Originally Posted by pamplemoose77
ok, seriously, what is the point of first graders doing science fair projects???
she's handwriting it all, but i'm doing EVERYTHING else! they even sent home notes at the beginning warning parents to not do too much... and trust me, i'd be doing WAY less if it was possible... but how on earth is my 7yo supposed to come up with the hypothesis, procedure, bar graph, and results of a project that she didn't even get to choose?!?!
i'd be less bitter if they'd let us do the experiment that she came up with.. she wanted to see if cats or dogs could smell better.. we were going to hide food in the room and time each pet to see who smelled it the fastest... but NOOOOO.. no animal experiments 
so she came home with the thrilling question of "does chalk dissolve?" or something like that. are you kidding me?!? i understand the marble/acid rain connection, but i hardly feel that we are accomplishing anything here 
i'd be even less bitter if the freaking thing was working like we'd hoped.  |
Ugh! Sounds as stimulating as the crystal-growing experiment we had to do with my daughter when she was a little older than yours.
Sheesh...poorly written instructions, a REALLY slow developing crystal, and an unclear assignment made that one hideous. I feel for ya! At least you didn't have to build the Trojan Horse, do a term paper on the Trojan Wars, and deliver the report in a home-made Trojan soldier costume, as my 6th grader son did this year as part of his "I-Search" project. We called it the "We-Search" project, and "we" got an A on that project. He did look pretty cute as a Trojan...
