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I love science. But at school, we con't get to do very much science-y stuff. I mean srsly, one of the experiments was where we had to blow a cotton ball with a straw and measure how long the cotton ball traveled. The repeat, with a shorter straw. I think that 11 year olds like me can handle experiments with chemicals and things like that.

cheddargirl wrote:

Mokat wrote:

I love science. But at school, we con't get to do very much science-y stuff. I mean srsly, one of the experiments was where we had to blow a cotton ball with a straw and measure how long the cotton ball traveled. The repeat, with a shorter straw. I think that 11 year olds like me can handle experiments with chemicals and things like that.

I don' know it's about the handling part, I think it's more of a safety reason - there are large number of protocols when storing chemicals and treating things like chemical spills and burns, and even with those in place it doesn't guarantee that a major accident will happen; I think most parents aren't too comfortable with elementary/middle school kids working around with toxic and carcinogenic chemicals because of the dangers that they present to kids of a very young age - it's usually less of a danger to teenagers whose bodies are more developed.

Yeah...Only 3 more years for me...3 more years until I'm a teen...Anyway, I agree with cheddargirl. I used to think that my parents were over protective, but when I saw something in the newspaper (A kid had disfigured his face), I took it back. Better to be safe then sorry.

I remember this one person said some substitute for science put potassium near a sink, and there was still a burn mark there. They might have been lying, but still. (Potassium lights on fire when it goes in water, plus the flame is purplish pink.)

Mokat wrote:

I love science. But at school, we con't get to do very much science-y stuff. I mean srsly, one of the experiments was where we had to blow a cotton ball with a straw and measure how long the cotton ball traveled. The repeat, with a shorter straw. I think that 11 year olds like me can handle experiments with chemicals and things like that.

To be honest, lab work isn't all that great.  I don't know how they do labs at your future high school, but at mine, there is a lot of groundwork that you have to write, and you have to write a lab report too.  On top of that, I've always love theory more than practice.  I guess I just don't like to get my hands messy.  Give me nice clean numbers and principles  any day of the week.

Anyway, and idea I had for an experiment was to "magnetize" water while its freezing, and see if that prevents crystals from forming.  The I could just measure the density of the ice, and if it was more dense than typical ice, it would mean that I had prevented crystals from forming.  Whether this would actually work is almost a moot point for me, I just like to think about "heavy ice". 

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imnotbob wrote:

CheeseMunchy wrote:

Are you gonna give them coffee? 

No, caffeine.

Concentrated caffeine based energy drink? 

cheddargirl wrote:

Mokat wrote:

I love science. But at school, we con't get to do very much science-y stuff. I mean srsly, one of the experiments was where we had to blow a cotton ball with a straw and measure how long the cotton ball traveled. The repeat, with a shorter straw. I think that 11 year olds like me can handle experiments with chemicals and things like that.

I don' know it's about the handling part, I think it's more of a safety reason - there are large number of protocols when storing chemicals and treating things like chemical spills and burns, and even with those in place it doesn't guarantee that a major accident will happen; I think most parents aren't too comfortable with elementary/middle school kids working around with toxic and carcinogenic chemicals because of the dangers that they present to kids of a very young age - it's usually less of a danger to teenagers whose bodies are more developed.

Thats why our school only does things with fire and strong acids and bases. Its awesome.

Berry122 wrote:

I love science. Me and my friends were in the BT young scientist competion last year (this secondary school science competition in Ireland) and we got highly commended! XD It was amazing, we came back from the awards ceremony disappointed but when we got back to our stand there was a rosette on it 

I hope to do TY so I can enter it.  I really want to.  Might ask my science teacher if I can enter next year...

Codebreaker wrote:

cheddargirl wrote:

Mokat wrote:

I love science. But at school, we con't get to do very much science-y stuff. I mean srsly, one of the experiments was where we had to blow a cotton ball with a straw and measure how long the cotton ball traveled. The repeat, with a shorter straw. I think that 11 year olds like me can handle experiments with chemicals and things like that.

I don' know it's about the handling part, I think it's more of a safety reason - there are large number of protocols when storing chemicals and treating things like chemical spills and burns, and even with those in place it doesn't guarantee that a major accident will happen; I think most parents aren't too comfortable with elementary/middle school kids working around with toxic and carcinogenic chemicals because of the dangers that they present to kids of a very young age - it's usually less of a danger to teenagers whose bodies are more developed.

Yeah...Only 3 more years for me...3 more years until I'm a teen...Anyway, I agree with cheddargirl. I used to think that my parents were over protective, but when I saw something in the newspaper (A kid had disfigured his face), I took it back. Better to be safe then sorry.

The thing 'bout that is that my science teacher last year let us make things like vinegar/baking soda volcanoes and there was even this man who came and talked to us and he put a bouncey ball in liquid nitrogen and froze it and dropped it and it shattered. My point being, I think that it might just be that I have a different teacher who has a different opinion about that.

imnotbob wrote:

I was going to experiment on some hamsters and see if caffeine affects their intellegence. But I learned I have to have a licence to do it at a university.

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