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IDENTIFY THE NUT

The Moderator agrees with teachers at each site the nut/s which their children are to investigate.

Students give one another evidence/clues to help the making of hypotheses about the nuts being studied.

The collection of evidence will involve the science process skills of:

1. Observation: sensory
2. Observation: measurement
3. Periodic predictions based on accumulating evidence
4. Knowledge: Location, country of origin
5. Knowledge: Those animals which eat the nut
6. Investigation: calorific value of an agreed sample amount
7. Social factors: foods in which the nut is included (recipes)

Sites will collect evidence for all the nuts being studied and complete the project by sharing a table showing that they have predicted which of their number provided the information for each sample.

Proposed timetable:

• All schools to be registered by September 30, 1995
• Project begin next week.
• Clues to be mailed by October 15, 1995
• Then from then on one per week

Recipes for the use of the nuts as food will be shared in an end of project party.

Project will by led by a teacher at The Richmond Math Science Centre in Richmond Virginia.

Project Co-ordinator: Dr. Mano Talaiver

KIDPROJ Information Contact: Patti Weeg pweeg@shore.intercom.net

KIDPROJ WWW Contact: Grant Dougall dougallg@indigo.quadrant.net