Andrew did a science project last year in 2nd grade, so I thought we were done for a couple of years. Nope, they had to do one again this year. I heard from another parent that they have to do one every year! Not that I think that this is a bad thing, but let's face, it who does most of the work? Danny came up with several options for science projects and we let Andrew choose which one he wanted to do. He chose one that has to do with how different colors absorb sunlight. His hypothesis was: I thought black would be the hottest.
The first step was to prepare the jars. We got some jars from my parent's house and Andrew spray painted them in the backyard. This was, by far, his favorite part. Claire and Grant wanted to help as well which caused some issues.
On the day that we were doing the experiment, Andrew filled each jar with 2 cup of water.
When all of the jars are ready we brought the little table to the backyard and lined up all of the jars and covered them with foil.
The hottest temperature was 106 for black after 4 hours. Silver was the coolest after 4 hours at only 93 degrees. The colors from the coolest to hottest were silver, white, light blue, pink, green, orange, red, and black.
Then came the time to prepare the board. Andrew wanted to type up all of the items himself, which he did over a 3 hour period. Many distractions later, he finished and we cut all of the papers with the paper cuter. This is the final board with the pictures on it. He also had to do a presentation to his class about his project. Hopefully Andrew learned as much about colors and sunlight as Danny and I did.
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