Elijah Nelson (left) and Camden Gleason stand in front of the colorful bulletin board about butterflies and plants about which they studied and then made booklets. The kindergarten through second grade students made the display for the science fair April 26 at the Swan Valley Elementary School. Butterfly pupa hang in the cage. The students are waiting for the butterflies to emerge and then let them fly free outside. Plants are emerging from the seeds the student planted.
Visitors to the Swan Valley Elementary School Science Fair on April 26 were asked to write their comments about each project. Community resident Rick Ferguson writes a comment about fifth grade student Matthew Cardenas' project. Cardenas learned how to determine whether an egg is raw or cooked by how fast it spins and whether it stops immediately when pressure is added to it. He demonstrated that the raw eggs doesn't spin as fast and is slower to stop spinning. The liquid inside the raw eggs keeps it turning a bit more since the shell has stopped but the liquid inside is still moving.
Fourth grade student Aubrey Matthew explains how to make ice cream in a bag. She stated on her display that it mattered how long the mixture should be worked. The longer the mixture was worked the better the formation. She concluded that it is necessary to use salt with the ice surrounding it to make it freeze. Matthew further wondered if adding flavoring would work or if it would take longer.
SWAN VALLEY - All 31 Swan Valley Elementary (SVE) School kindergarten through eighth grade students participated in a Science Fair held April 26. It was the culminating activity resulting from the Swan Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) grant SVE received this school year.
The funds enabled the students to visit the Insectarium in Missoula, Mont., the Planetarium at the University of Montana and hosted the Mr. G science show.
The students were also able to work with the We Are Montana in the Classroom Program. The University of Montana sponsors faculty members, graduate students and professionals who expose students in Montana to higher education and career goals with hands-on and minds-on activities.
For their final activity, the SVE students chose a specific science fair subject to demonstrate. Most of the students used the internet to research their project while others came up with original ideas that they wanted to pursue. Then students each created a display to communicate what they learned to parents and members of the community who attended the science fair. The projects included butterfly and plant observations, demonstrating the power of various caliber firearms; experiments with color; and how to tell if an egg is raw or hard-boiled egg by spinning.
A poster signed by the student body thanked the SVCF for the help with the science instruction.
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