Science project

In school David had to do a "mini" science project. The teacher basically wanted the kids to show that they know how to apply the scientific method. She stressed more than once not to do any thing elaborate. I wonder how many kids are going to show up at school with a table top display and a working model of the space shuttle? :) I know that teachers can tell when the parents actually do the work. So, while I did find some fun ideas on the internet that would be fairly easy and simple, I decided the project should be something that David came up with himself. The example the teacher gave was "who has better balance? boys or girls?" and they tested that in class. David's current interest is baseball so I asked him to think of something that had to do with baseball. He came up with "What rolls faster, a baseball or a tennis ball?" I thought it was perfect, and the teacher will know that he really did it by himself. They have to display their information in a file folder and explain each step of the scientific method. We worked on the project at home when he was recovering from his surgery. He really had a lot of fun! We "raced" the balls against each other at different inclines.


David's hypothesis was correct - the baseball won every time!