Kids publish school science project in prestigious journal

[Canada 02]

It came with wobbly writing and hand-drawn diagrams, but an elementary school science project has made it into a peer-reviewed journal from Britain’s prestigious Royal Society.

Biology Letters published a report conducted and written by a group of eight- to 10-year-olds from an English elementary school investigating the way bumblebees see colours and patterns.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle1847786/

Principal finding ‘We discovered that bumble-bees can use a combination of colour and spatial relationships in deciding which colour of flower to forage from. We also discovered that science is cool and fun because you get to do stuff that no one has ever done before. (Children from Blackawton)’.

Link to the science article:

http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.o...5-2426d496d3be

[Reggie Dunlop]

Science is cool and fun!

[ernie]

It's amazing what great teachers can bring out in kids. Glad I had a few of those teachers growing up.

And science is cool and fun.

[corporatejay]

I'm impressed 8-10 year olds can use the word spatial. Good on them.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Originally Posted by corporatejay

I'm impressed 8-10 year olds can use the word spatial. Good on them.

Spatial Needs Class.

[Kybosh]

I didn't get my first peer-reviewed article accepted until I was 23. Dag yo.

At least all my papers are in higher impact journals than Biology Letters .

[algernon]

Originally Posted by Kybosh

I didn't get my first peer-reviewed article accepted until I was 23. Dag yo.

At least all my papers are in higher impact journals than Biology Letters .

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