This year Cami and Jocelyn won at their school science fairs. Cami did a totally involved project growing germs from different house hold surfaces and then tried to use household cleaners to kill them off. It was eye opening and disgusting that the most germy surface was the kitchen sink....worse than the toilet even. I definitely have been more generous in my kitchen cleaner down the sink drain since then. It was fun how independent she was. I didn't help at all and she did a fabulous job!
Jocelyn saw Cami's germs growing and loved petri dishes...She came up with her own project of seeing if she really had to wash her hands every time she came inside from playing (are there more germs on outside toys?). So she grew swing and bike germs from outside and plastic horse and tablet germs from inside....All toys had a lot of germs and she is convinced she just needs to wash her hands all the time now...She too worked pretty independently and did a great job. It is fun to see your kids be curious about something and figure it out and learn. And this year Taryn was all about sitting the science fair out....and that was OK too.
And just for the record germs in petri dishes totally stink and next time I am not going to incubate them on the kitchen counter for a week each project....
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