Sometimes children find science in the most unlikely places. A student in Charles Pearce's fifth-grade class was reading Betty McDonald's Mrs. Piggle Wiggle . The protagonist, sitting on the grass, begins to cry buckets of tears. The child planted grass seed in five different pots and varied the salinity of the water she used to care for them. She was surprised that the one with a little salt did better than the one watered with H20 from the tap.
Science IS questions and answers.
But it is also a story, a series of experiments, wrong turns, twists, garbled data, and sometimes elegant explanations. There's much to be savored on this scenic drive. N.Y. She is a professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County in Baltimore. This document has been accessed 647 times since April 3, 1997.