I learned of a great opportunity today for teachers and families to allow students to participate in Citizen Science Research projects. http://scistarter.com/ On this site, you can search by topic for a project you could help out with in your own backyard or at your own kitchen table. It might be monitoring the rainfall in your area or counting birds that you spot or observing stars. I have some experience with this because last year my fourth grade class got a bag of matrix (the scientific word for dirt!) from a mastodon dig site in New York state. The project required the painstaking sorting of the dirt into piles of twigs, rocks, and (if you are lucky) shells and bone fragments. It was a fabulous chance for my students to see how the process of being a paleontologists isn't quite as glamorous as the movies might make it seem! Science projects are fabulous, but science projects with a true purpose are even better! Check this website out if your family is interested.
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