I’ve always thought alligators were really cool. So in third
grade when I had to do a specialty project on the animal of
my choice, I picked alligators. After I did some research I met
with the staff at the Heron Park Nature Center and the South
Carolina Aquarium to ask a lot of questions. Next I talked
my grandmother into stalking alligators with me. She let me
use her camera to take pictures (always from a safe distance)
on Kiawah and at Magnolia Plantation’s Audubon Swamp
Garden. With a little bit of help, I was able to self-publish a
book of what I learned about alligators.
Charlie Smith; age 15
A Fish Story
So we were fishing for fish I caught a really big fish then a
alligator came under the bridge and he snagged the fish off of
my hook and that was the end of my fish story.
Lucy Frost; age 6
For a science project at school, I had to come up with a
hypothesis and set up an experiment to support or disprove it.
I wanted to see if birds preferred one color feeder over others.
There are so many birds in my grandparents’ yard on Kiawah,
that was a good place to test. We bought the same bird feeder
in five different colors. I put the same seed in each feeder,
hung them close together at the same height and rotated their
position each day. At the same time every day, I measured
and recorded the amount of seed the birds ate that day. My
hypothesis was that birds would prefer the red feeder because
I remembered seeing hummingbirds and butterflies around
red flowers in the garden. However, my experiment showed
the birds that visited my feeders preferred the dark green one.
It was a fun project.
Scotty Smith; age 12
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