{"id":904,"date":"2009-02-14T07:49:03","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T12:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=904"},"modified":"2009-03-28T18:18:33","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T22:18:33","slug":"kids-show-up-for-science-saturdays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=904","title":{"rendered":"Kids show up for science Saturdays"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arlington Middle School has a great hands-on science program on Saturdays<\/a> to help students understand important concepts they need to pass upcoming tests. Here is one simple, but very creative activity:<\/p>\n

With a pair of chopsticks, Lawrence Andrews was desperately trying to pick up black and white dots punched from a newspaper.<\/p>\n

But wait, to provide the perfect camouflage, they were lying on top of a newspaper. The teenager had 30 seconds to deftly “catch” as many dots as possible and put them in a plastic cup.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Teacher Mikki Douglas had students pretend that chopsticks were predators and that the dots were prey camouflaged in their environment. For example, she said, think of a lion chasing a zebra camouflaged by shrubbery or a shark trying to attack a fish. Even so, students said, it wasn’t easy to capture the dots with chopsticks.<\/p>\n

The purpose is to show how animals act in their environment, the predator-prey relationship, the animal food chain and the effectiveness of camouflage, Douglas said.<\/p>\n

Lawrence, who got 15 prey animals … er, dots … in 30 seconds, said he enjoyed it because it was a different kind of assignment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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