http://homepage.mac.com/stevespangler/iblog steve@stevespangler.com © Jack Spangler Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:43:57 -0700 Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:44:01 -0700 iBlog 1.4.0 Tonight is the night that everyone shares their science project at school. Mrs. Herman set up a lot of tables for all of the kids who are in the science fair. Most of the kids who did science projects are in 4th and 5th grade, but there were still 8 kids from kindergarten who did projects. Lots of parents and grandparents showed up tonight and everyone received a medal for doing a good job. I had to stand at my table and explain my project over and over and over to anyone who was interested. And if they were really interested, I gave them an alligator to try at home. Here's what I told them, "If you want the alligator to grow really big, get a big tub of water, use distilled water (although it really doesn't matter that much)... and don't put any salt in the water! That's the secret of the growing alligator."



Keep reading to see my final video... ]]> Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:43:49 -0700 Tomorrow night is the big night when everyone brings their science fair projects to school. My Mom and Aunt Lisa are helping me put together my poster.

]]> Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:12:28 -0700 My guess at the beginning was that the alligator in the salt water would grow bigger. By doing this experiment I made a discovery. I discovered that these toy alligators do not grow in the salt water! The salt water alligator stayed small and the plain water alligator grew big.

]]> Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:05:54 -0700 At the beginning I guessed that the one in the distilled water would get bigger than the one in the tap water. You can see that my prediction was correct. But I thought that the alligator in the distilled water would get a lot bigger than the plain water alligator.

]]> Sat, 19 Feb 2005 21:07:54 -0700 My guess at the beginning was right. The alligator in the biggest tub grew bigger than the alligator in the smaller tub. But I thought that it would get a whole lot bigger. I even measured the alligators one more day and the one in the large tub even got bigger.

So, my prediction was correct. If you want to grow the biggest toy alligator, use a big tub of water.

Keep reading to see my video. ]]> Fri, 18 Feb 2005 17:45:43 -0700 The alligator in the salt water has only grown 1 square and the plain water alligator grew 8 squares.

]]> Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:39:17 -0700 The tap water alligator caught up with the one in the distilled water. They're both the same size - 27 squares each.

]]> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:24:49 -0700 Remember that my first experiment (#1) is with the 3 tubs of water - small, medium and large. The alligator in the large tube keeps getting bigger...

]]> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:26:22 -0700 I want to know if the growing alligator toy grows best in salt water or plain tap water. I will measure how well each alligator grows for 5 days in the same size plastic tub.

]]> Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:29:37 -0700 My Dad invited me to go with him to his job at KUSA-TV 9NEWS in Denver and show everyone what I was doing with my science project. While I'm trying to get this dumb alligator to grow as big as I can, my Dad is trying to teach teachers how to use a blog to make science fairs more fun for the teachers, parents and the kids. Click on Growing Alligators on TV to see what I did on television yesterday. Look at this...


]]> Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:09:36 -0700 For my second test, I want to know if there is any difference between growing the alligator toy in regular tap water or distilled water from the store. I will measure how well each alligator grows for 5 days in the same size plastic tub.




Keep reading to see my video. ]]> Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:34:39 -0700 The alligators are growing, but they seem to be catching up with each other.

]]> Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:22:58 -0700 My prediction was that the alligator in the big tub of water would grow bigger than the alligator in the small tub.



Keep reading to see my video. ]]> Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:59:47 -0700 I have 3 plastic tubs (a small, medium and large size) and 3 growing alligator toys. I will measure how well each alligator grows for 5 days.



CLICK ON READ MORE... ]]> Sun, 13 Feb 2005 09:49:37 -0700 Hi, I'm Jack Spangler and I'm a kindergartner in Mrs. Riscoe's class at Wilder Elementary. My teacher invited us to all do a project in the school science fair. Mrs. Riscoe said that the first thing we had to do is to think of an idea. I asked my Mom and Dad for help and they helped me come up with a list of things that might be fun to do. I have a toy called a growing alligator. The instructions tell you to put it in water and it will grow, but the instructions never tell you how big it gets. The instructions also do not tell you how big the container of water should be or what kind of water makes the alligator grow the biggest. So, for my science project I am going to conduct three experiments to find out how to make a growing alligator toy grow the best.



Okay, let's be honest. I'm only 6 years old and I can't really type this much stuff into our computer. My Dad asks me questions and then he types my answers into the computer. Today, we made a video of the first part of my project so you can see what I'm doing. Every day I will come back and tell you what I discovered... so keep reading... and keep watching. By the way, my Dad is trying to teach teachers about the idea of blogging. You can see our interview on 9NEWS KUSA-TV from February 14, 2005.

Keep reading to see my video. ]]> Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:35:00 -0700