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School Name: Sherwood Heights School
Team Size: 1
Grade Category: 4-6
ProjectType: Experimental
Subject Area: Earth/Energy/Environmental
Language: English
Team Captain First Name: Emily
Team Captain Last Name: Nesbitt
Awards: Honorable Mention
Project Title: Sucked In
Hardware Used: Digital Camera
software Used: Notepad
Special Skills: html
Project Abstract: The purpose of my project was to create quicksand. I did this by using cornstarch, water, a plastic mixing bowl, and spoon. My hypothesis was that by making quicksand I would be able to determine the the effect of viscosity of objects in fluid. I used visual observation to record my results. I observed that moving your hand slowly through quicksand makes it easy to pull through, but when you move your hand quickly it will make it almost impossible to go through. I also discovered that when you sink your hand to the bottom of the container filled with quicksand and pull it up swiftly, the container would sometimes rise off the table. When I punched the quicksand it didn't splatter. I concluded that viscosity slows the movement of objects.
my last years project:<"http://virtualsciencefair.org/2007/nesb7e2">2007 project
www.virtualsciencefair.org/2008/nesb8e2