Max's 6th grade science project is due tomorrow....not a moment too soon! Here is the story..
First, he chose a project having to do with measuring the speed of light or something...I lost interest as soon as I read the header...
Weeks went by with me asking about next steps and deadlines. "Not yet", I was told. "We have until early April sometime".
Friday before last, Max woke up not feeling well. Nauseous and overall bad. Finn went to school and Max went back to bed. Later that morning, Brent called and said "Max isn't sick....I think I got to the bottom of something". Uh-oh...
So, the first part of the science project was due on the Friday Max was "sick". That said, all the other kids had selected their project and actually done the test part. A write up was due. Since Max had chosen something he had no interest in and not even started it, we made him chose something else and that weekend, all material was purchased and the science test began. Max was going to create two home made shampoos and test them against a store bought product in various situations. He wrote a long email to his science teacher, informing her that he was behind the ball, had selected something new and explained to her what it was, how far along he was and if she was okay with him switching things up. The following Monday she spoke to him after class, approved the shampoo project and gave him an extension of the original deadline by a week.
Max had a lot to do and worked daily on soiling neutral yarn with the different shampoo products and then the cleaning process. The coming Friday, he had his write-up and was as far along as the rest of the class. Now, the final project results on presentation board is due tomorrow. That said, we spent the weekend buying the presentation board and colored poster board for framing each sheet of paper and gluing it all together. This project cannot be done soon enough...
Some images of Max's project process...
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