Science Fair

We still have six five days to finish Mr. Boy’s entry in the annual school science fair. It’s voluntary for second graders like him, required thereafter. He’s doing a collection and classification, and though he has most all of his materials gathered for the subject–sharks–he needs all the time left. Turns out there are more than 360 known species, too many to even list on his display board, which would be boring anyhow. But the Web has allowed him to "collect" graphic drawings of representative members of some of the eight orders of sharks. Next problems: a creative layout and practicing his oral presentation. Next year and henceforth, experiments will be required, but collection was a good introduction to research and scientific terms. The Web offers a vast amount of ideas. Must have been a lot tougher before the Internet.