Who knew?

Who knew that Science would become Seth's favorite subject?  He likes Art too, dislikes Math and Phonics and tolerates History and Language Arts because we get to read cool stories sometimes.  Anyway, today our Science lesson was about using the Scientific Method to answer questions about the world.  It was really fun.  Seth had to find out if a popsicle would melt faster in the sun or in the shade.  His hypothesis was that it would melt faster in the shade, so we started our experiment to find out if he was right.  We put one popsicle on a plate in the sun and one in the shade.  Then we took pictures every ten minutes until one of them was completely melted. 



Ten minutes turned out to be a little too long, because by the end of 20 minutes both popsicles were melted completely.  Luckily, we were able to make our conclusion from the pictures taken at the 10 minute mark and didn't have to do the whole thing again.  Seth was happy to know which popsicle melted more quickly, but was a little sad that his original hypothesis was wrong.  I had to explain very carefully that even real scientists are sometimes wrong and that is why scientists conduct experiments in the first place; to find out if they are right or wrong.  I think it ended up making sense to him.  We finished up by enjoying a non-melted popsicle.  Who knew Science could be so fun and so yummy?