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Eight-year-olds publish scientific paper.

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JennyB:
This is such an inspiring example of Socratic science teaching: a class of Devon primary school children has had a paper on bee's colour perception accepted in the Royal Society Biology Letters.    :Thmbsup:

Here's the background to the experiments, done two years ago when the eldest of the children was just eight:  :o

The experiments were not devised by the ‘scientist’, but by twenty five 8-year-old children. The children devised the questions; they reasoned an answer; they designed the experiments; and they did all the data analysis.
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Some questions asked by the children about bees:


* What if... we had a colour in the tube that connects the hive to the arena, and then they have to go to that colour on the flower wall?
* What if... we could find out how much effort the bees will go through in order to get a reward? For instance, they have to move something heavy out of the way to get a reward.
* What if... we could find out if they prefer warm or cold nectar?
* What if... we could find out if they could follow a route of colour?
* What if... we could discover if bees can learn to go to certain colours depending on how sweet they are?
* What if... we could find out if some bees could learn faster than others?
* What if... we could find out how many colours they could remember?
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 :-* :-* 8)

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