Science Fair Projects

Students in room 40 shared their science fair projects this week! They did an amazing job on these and really impressed Mrs. Kornblum with their high level questions and experiments. We focused mainly on psychology experiments this year. Here are the display boards from our class:

Abdullah and Axel did a project on short term memory and found that there is no significant difference between boys and girls.




Klea and Neyomi repeated Piaget's famous tests for cognitive development among Kindergarten, first, and second graders.


Israel, Tommy, and Darius blew the lid off the scam artists who sell bracelets that they claim give you better balance, demonstrating that their results are nothing more than the Placebo Effect at work.


Amber and Tahlia compared the reaction time of boys versus girls and found very little difference.


Blaine, Justice, and Leonardo repeated the "Invisible Rope Trick" that we watched to see how easy it is to mess with someone's perception.


Nick and Hudson discovered that nonabsorbent material is better to use when testing whether salt water or fresh water was better for floating.


Kenniah and Chloe did an experiment to test for how smell affected a person's sense of taste, and found that it was very difficult for people to correctly identify even common fruits like limes, pears, and tangerines.


Finally, Elysha and Alexis probably learned the most from their experiment which went horribly wrong, but which allowed them to learn a lot about the scientific process and about the importance of having controlled variables.



All in all, this was probably my best set of science projects I've seen in all my years of teaching. Extremely high-level thinking and work went into these - but it's exactly what you'd expect from this year's Superstars!

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