Some of the experiment outcomes made me laugh out loud, such as one about taking a gerbil on a Ferris wheel ("hypothesis: Gerbils would like bigger wheels."), which ended with "Gerbil not allowed on ride. Although the "experiments" are playful and silly and unrealistic, they could also be a good intro for thinking about science experiments and how they are conducted. Repeat three times a day until spring."), and "what happened" ("-stomachache -brain freeze -love of ketchup wavering"). It's about a nameless girl who performs 11 "science experiments." Each would be a stretch to call "experiments," given that the hypotheses are things like, "A kid can survive on a diet of snowballs and ketchup." But they're really fun and what's really great is that each "experiment" is written up like an actual science experiment, with a question ("Can a kid make it through the winter eating only snow and ketchup?"), hypothesis ("Ketchup and snow are the only food groups a kid needs"), "what you need"/materials list ("-ketchup -snow"), "what to do" ("1. However, it turned out to be something a lot more whimsical and fun than that. For some reason, I thought that 11 Experiments That Failed would be about historical experiments that failed, like.
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