These are not great photos because they're from my camera phone. But at least it's something! I will add the photo of Jazz with her project to this post later today. Am waiting for the e-mail from my phone to make it into my e-mail account. So if you check this post tomorrow I will, hopefully, have added the photo of Jazz with her science project.
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It's soap's EFFECT, not AFFECT. EFFECT = noun, AFFECT = verb.
Sigh.
It looks great, though :) Back when I was a kid, everyone used stencils for all their wording. Made the science fairs look like military supply depots.
@ Brenda - I purposely looked up the 2 words in the dictionary and affect was more appropriate.
Thanks for posting this, it looks great. As Brenda said, you can tell it was done by a kid.
And yes, it really should be "effect". Maybe Jazzmin should have looked the words up in the dictionary? :)
OK - Maybe it was the thesauraus on MS word I consulted. Because the dictionary didn't give the same meaning as the thesaurus implied.
OK, so it's wrong, do you really have to point out every mistake you find in my blog posts? lol
Totally great!! I am really impressed by what she did (with a little help from mom, of course).
Fourth grade projects -- this is a walk down memory lane. I never did a science fair project, but in fourth grade, I do remember drawing pictures of valves for a report on "My Dad's job," and making that flour/salt/water dough and painting it for a model of "Our Solar System."
Affect is sometimes a noun, true --but mostly just used in the context of psychology. "The lady at the DMV exhibited a negative affect." So maybe some molecules were copping some attitude???
@Hillary - Yeah that's it - those water molecules and their attitude problems. Geesh. Water molecules these days, I tell ya.
Being that the project was to be done by a 9 year old. I think the judges will forgive the use of affect instead of effect. If anything, it will confirm to them that she did it herself. Even though it was me who chose the wrong resource to figure out which was the correct word. The ironic thing is I originally had put effect.
What was the assignment when you had to do that martian? Remember, the one with the clittering green body, etc.
Sorry, I'm just psycho about misspellings. There was an error message in the program I work on which said "In-Valid blahblahblah". I nearly died. How could a respected insurance company like this EVER let someone who obviously had no command of the language write their error messages? But, unfortunately, the whole SOx thing means you just can't go fixing things like this, you have to have it reported, then scheduled as an action item, fit into a quarter's plan, assigned to a BA, developer, and QA, and the audit trail for the change prepared into a Maintenance Release Document (usually about three pages minimum), including a business case analysis and with team lead signoffs.
So, usually these things don't, well, can't get fixed.
Hey, welcome to business IT.
The martian was 4th grade too. Boy, they did make me do a lot of projects that year!
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