Monday, November 24, 2008

Do science fair projects teach science?

When you do a science fair project, you become really familiar with the scientific method and the topic of what your project is on.  So in a sense, you don't really learn "science", you just learn a lot about the components of your topic.  Other things that you do learn from the Science Fair process are to use resources, to use detective skills, to be specific when you write things down, and to always take data.  Overall, Science Fair projects just educate you in the basic steps of doing an experiment. 

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Stem Cell Blog

I agree with the use of Stem Cells because I think we should take advantage of the Stem Cell's ability to become other cells.  This ability can help create replacement cells and can help make drugs safer and more effective.  More importantly though, it could save the lives of those who need certain cells.  Also, the research of the Stem Cell can lead to other life saving medical treatments.