ANTS!!

Madison has been involved with her Science Fair project for about 2 weeks now. She came home one day and told me her key question: What attracts ants the fastest-bananas, apples or hot dogs? She was extremely excited about the project at hand and we spent the next week discussing how we would make this big experiment work. She was so proud of the fact that she came up with this idea all by herself. BTW, her hypothesis was: "I think that the apple will attract the ants the fastest. My reason is that the apple probably has the most sugar out of the three different foods. Ants love sugar!!"

So we set the project up on Saturday. Here is a bit of a pictorial diary for you visual learners.

Here are the objects of desire:


The hallowed placement of the plate:



The decision that ants wouldn't want
to crawl on a plate to get to the objects of desire:

After 20 minutes of waiting...no ants




10 minutes later:
"Mom, we have a problem.
There is only one banana chunk left!"



5 minutes later:
"Mom, my science project is a mess!
(She is sobbing by now.) The ants have nothing to eat!




And here is our little culprit:
Obviously, he takes after the rest of our family!
He likes music and he loves food!

We did redo our project on Sunday with great "scientific" results. Take a guess.....Apples, Hotdogs or Bananas?




Scroll Down for the answer!






More Scolling......







HOT DIGGETY DOG!
Can you believe it?

Oh, in case you noticed, I lost my signature somewhere in the midst of my picture downloading frenzy.

Heidi