My 7 year old signed up for the science fair this year! We homeschool through a public charter school with about 1000 kids, so there will definitely be some good competition! He's really excited and hoping to win a ribbon :shy: 
I helped him come up with the experiment idea. "Do tortoises have a favorite color?" Honestly, to us it's kinda silly but I wanted something that would involve a cool tortoise, be interesting for kids and easy enough for my first grader to do ON HIS OWN! (..too many parents do the work for the kids...)
I'm hoping that when the judges see he did it all himself, that'll stand out more than the elaborate parent performed experiments LOL
Anyway, back to the tortoise. We have permission to take Levi to the school and put him on the table next to the trifold board. 
my son is very excited!
Here's what we have so far..
The plan is to make 5 colored boards and clip a piece of lettuce to each one. See which one he walks up to and eats from. We'll do it every day for a week, maybe 10 days and record it. Maybe we'll determine that he has a "favorite color" when he chooses to eat from a particular color? LOL
My son thinks he'll choose green because it looks like grass. Good hypothesis! I think he'll choose red but only because of what I read on here.
This should be interesting! I'll share more photos later when we begin experimenting
I helped him come up with the experiment idea. "Do tortoises have a favorite color?" Honestly, to us it's kinda silly but I wanted something that would involve a cool tortoise, be interesting for kids and easy enough for my first grader to do ON HIS OWN! (..too many parents do the work for the kids...)
I'm hoping that when the judges see he did it all himself, that'll stand out more than the elaborate parent performed experiments LOL
Anyway, back to the tortoise. We have permission to take Levi to the school and put him on the table next to the trifold board.
my son is very excited!Here's what we have so far..
The plan is to make 5 colored boards and clip a piece of lettuce to each one. See which one he walks up to and eats from. We'll do it every day for a week, maybe 10 days and record it. Maybe we'll determine that he has a "favorite color" when he chooses to eat from a particular color? LOL
My son thinks he'll choose green because it looks like grass. Good hypothesis! I think he'll choose red but only because of what I read on here.
This should be interesting! I'll share more photos later when we begin experimenting
