Science Fair Wrap Up
In case you missed my initial post on John's science fair project , let me take a sec to catch you up... At John's school, participation in science fair is completely optional and family involvement is welcomed (obviously a Kindergartener can't go about this on his own.) John wanted to investigate if bird's like their food to be colored and that we did! First we made a hypothesis that “Birds will prefer blue bird seed.” We backed that up with a couple of nuggets of info from the internet and the made some assumptions that birds can see color, birds must be attracted to certain colors and that birds will probably like blue food the best because it will be the most camouflaged. (This last one came directly from the PCP.) We purchased three identical bird feeders and filled them each up with bird seed – one regular (our control group), one dyed red and one dyed blue. We used food safe coloring and set to work shaking and scraping the seeds aroun...