First we built a weather station in our kitchen and learned all about barometric pressure. Each morning the boys would bound down the stairs to see if the straw was up or down to determine if the day was going to be sunny or cloudy.
They are great simple kits that are giving my boys an appetite for science that might, one day, lead them to become a Science Fair Champion, or maybe he’ll do something as simple as try to grow a sweet potato and expose the damaging chemicals being used in food production.
The very cute video by fourth grader Elise, is going viral this week.
She did a simple experiment trying to grow vines on a sweet potato in water. After weeks, nothing happened. So she asked the supermarket produce manager who told her sweet potatoes (along with cranberries, blueberries, carrots, onions, tomatoes, spinach, and beets) are sprayed with bud nip to stop the spread of vines.
It wasn’t until she found a purely organic sweet potato that she saw behavior one would expect from a potato placed in water.