Should have gotten a creativity award
By TheRealDawn
@dawnald (85137)
Shingle Springs, California
March 26, 2010 10:51am CST
So yesterday we went to Dearra's school after work to check out the science experiments. Dearra's didn't win an award. It was interesting looking at them. For example, one was all pink with glitter and curling ribbon. I asked Dearra if the girl who did it was a cheerleader. She laughed and said she sure was.
Most of them were very serious, of course. A couple caught my eye because they were just different. The first one was somebody who watched the other students at lunch and kept statistics on whether the boys or the girls were more likely to pick up their trash. The girls won by a slight margin. Maybe this one should have gotten a creativity award?
But the funniest one was the one right next to Dearra's. Would you survive a zombie attack? And he had a graph that showed how fast the zombie was going and whether you were likely to survive if crawling, walking, riding a bike, riding a skateboard, driving a compact car, a Mercedes or a Maserati. We laughed so hard. Now that kid should have at least gotten a few extra points for creativity! 
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6 responses
@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
26 Mar 10
hi dawnald I remember going to school when my son was about
Dearra's age and seeing the different science experiments
and getting amused at some of them, too. I wonder if the
one who watched and kept statics on whether the boys or girls
were better at picking up their trash well go on to be a writer,
or maybe a statistician while the one with the graph about
zombie attack will surely grow up to a writer,wow. You are right, he should have won an award for the most creative. he he he.
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
26 Mar 10
maybe next year there will be a comedy award!
@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
26 Mar 10
Wow, I applaud the school for allowing them the freedom to do the science experiments in the way they chose. I think the school should get a creativity award. I always had, and so did my kids, a list of appropriate topics and you could not stray from that list in any way, shape or form. I am impressed, completely.
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
26 Mar 10
There was a list of topics, and most of the experiments I saw were repeated several times by different students. But maybe it was just a suggested list...
@cloudwatcher (6861)
• Australia
28 Mar 10
School sure has changed!
Nothing like that happened when I was at school.
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
29 Mar 10
I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have dared get away with something like that!
@Wizzywig (7847)
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26 Mar 10
There are quite a lot of kids who have that creative streak when they're given the opportunity to explore. Many of them build really complex structure with the construction toys available now and they can tell you in great detail what their 'machine' is and how it works and 'eavesdropping' on the role-play areas is a real eye (or should that be ear)-opener! Its great to see children coming up with these ideas but,oh so sad when it is blatantly obvious that the parents have given them the ideas and 'taken over'. I reckon the zombie kids work was his own! 
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
26 Mar 10
It has to have been. As opposed to the one with the huge pulley and I don't know what all. Kind of suspect...
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
26 Mar 10
hopefully a passing grade, it was worth it for the laugh!
@bounce58 (17380)
• Canada
26 Mar 10
I could understand the fascination with zombies! My kids have been playing this online game called 'plants vs. zombies', and it has actually gotten into a lot of things that they do. They would run around the house pretending one was a zombie, when they ate they pretended eating limbs because they were zombies, and they've been singing a song with a line that says 'there's a zombie in your lawn'.
But making it into a science experiment, that is taking it to another level. And that does deserve a creativity award.
