“Watch out Mr. Newsome!” Savannah screamed.
Mr. Newsome ducked just in time to miss the messy slush that had accidentally erupted from Savannah’s volcano experiment. Robbie jumped up from his desk and grabbed the wild container.
“Settle down, class!” Mr. Newsome commanded.
Once everything was under control, Savannah heard her classmates giggling under their breath. Perhaps her brother had been right: maybe she was a science disaster.
“Savannah, did your instructions tell you to put that much powder into the container?” Mr. Newsome inquired.
Savannah held her head down. She was tempted to lie, but she knew lying would only make things worse.
“I didn’t have my instructions, Mr. Newsome. I accidentally left them at home. I thought I could remember what was on the instructions,” Savannah admitted.
Savannah felt her cheeks flush. “Sorry,” she whispered. “Next time I’ll tell you if I don’t have the instructions.”
“That’s probably a good idea, but did you know that there were lots of scientists in our history who made mistakes while doing experiments?” Mr. Newsome said.
“Really?” asked Savannah. “Like who?”
Mr. Newsome smiled, “Well, Thomas Edison failed thousands of times while trying to invent the light bulb, Marie Curie had problems as she worked with radium, Ben Franklin had his share of problems too, and, of course, me! I’ve failed at lots of experiments! The key is to form a hypothesis, to tell what you think may happen in the experiment and learn as much as you can while you experiment.”
When Savannah got home, she told her family what had happened.
They reminded her that science is all about trial and error. She still had time to impress Mr. Newsome and make it into the upcoming science fair.
**Did she make it to the science fair? Found out HERE!**
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