The Ice Experiment

Today Cat participated in her first Science Fair.  Exciting!  She'd been talking about what her project would be for months and finally planned it out with Ben a couple of weeks ago.  She completed the experiment about two weeks ago and put the board and accompanying notebook together on Monday when she was out of school for MLK Day.

Ben (was) volunteered to help with the judging today and of the 25 or so projects he judged, most of them were obviously completed at least in part by the kids' parents.  We are really proud of Cat for doing the project herself.  She had the idea, she carried out the project, and she did the write-up.  She put the poster together herself also and only required a little bit of advising and direction along the way.

Her experiment was to determine which substance would help ice melt the fastest, between salt, sugar, and sand.  Cat hypothesized that the salt would melt the ice the fastest, and she was right.  She found that salt melted the ice significantly faster than the other materials and much faster than the ice with no extra substance on it.