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    Ideas needed for science project with horses

    My 2nd grade daughter wants to do her science fair project on something to do with horses. Does anyone have any good ideas? We have two ponies and a horse at home so we have access to them daily. Appreciate any help you can offer!!
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    What type of project? Can it be anything?

    I know when I was little I was fascinated by anything that could be measured. So maybe measure hoof growth, mane or tail growth. Some composting things with manure?
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      May be a little too much for your daughter, but a friend's daughter did a comparison of materials for violin bows - the standard is horse hair and she did that as compared to wire and other materials and why horse hair was the best material.

      Or maybe a comparison of body types and use such as Thoroughbred & racing, drafts and pulling, QH and cutting ....

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        It can be anything - an experiment (testing a hypothesis) or a demonstration.

        I have thought of testing what treats they like best (all of them LOL).

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          We did the following science fair project for our son at about that age.

          We got 12 small pots of soil. We planted grass seed in them. We did nothing to 3 pots, we added commercial fertilizer to 3 pots, we added lime to 3 pots and we added manure to 3 pots. (The amounts added were the same.) All pots had the same light exposure and all were watered at the same time.

          He measured the grass growth and density over a period of time and then reported it. It turned out that the manure enhanced pots grew thicker and taller.
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            How about how many pounds of poop a pony makes in a day compared to how many pounds of food you feed it? I home school my 1st grader and this one was easy for her to do without too much help. We weighed the food and hay that we fed and then we put the poop in a wheelbarrow ( that we had weighed previously) and weighed that. We did keep pony in for 24 hours so we did not miss any poop that might have been dropped in the field LOL!! Not the most glamorous project but my DD loved it!!
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            • #7
              Rutgers University in NJ has a nice website that might be helpful with ideas

              www.esc.rutgers.edu

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                For an elementary school project one of my daughters asked the question "after 3 minutes of exercise which horse, will the 12 year old horse or the 2 year old horse, return the resting pulse and respiration quicker?" She took the HR and respiration rate on each rested, longed each horse, recorded the stats at the conclusion of the 3 minutes then again 10 minutes later.
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                  Originally posted by ClearviewFarm View Post
                  It can be anything - an experiment (testing a hypothesis) or a demonstration.

                  I have thought of testing what treats they like best (all of them LOL).
                  A while ago The Horse ran some articles about the most popular flavorings for horses - you could dig that up and see how your horse's compare to the list.

                  http://www.thehorse.com/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=12280

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                  • #10
                    I don't intend to be rude, but what is the benefit of you coming up with the ideas for your daughter's project? Isn't thinking up the central hypothesis an important part of the learning?? I understand wanting to help, but IMHO you would be furthering her eduction in much more meaningful ways by just asking her some open questions, something to provoke her OWN thinking and her OWN ideas.
                    * What kinds of things do your friends ask you about horses? Is there something you'd like to show off?
                    * What interesting behavior do you see them do?
                    * How do you think horses are different from other pets?
                    * What kinds of things change over time, that you think you can measure?

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                      Originally posted by kewpalace View Post
                      May be a little too much for your daughter, but a friend's daughter did a comparison of materials for violin bows - the standard is horse hair and she did that as compared to wire and other materials and why horse hair was the best material.
                      What a neat idea. I hope you don't mind if I pass this on to my DD?

                      Good luck with the project.

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                      • #12
                        Good idea! I wish I'd thought of that when I had to do those fool things. Maybe Clearview's daughter could do pony vs. horse.

                        Originally posted by SLW View Post
                        For an elementary school project one of my daughters asked the question "after 3 minutes of exercise which horse, will the 12 year old horse or the 2 year old horse, return the resting pulse and respiration quicker?" She took the HR and respiration rate on each rested, longed each horse, recorded the stats at the conclusion of the 3 minutes then again 10 minutes later.
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                          Thank You!

                          Thanks everyone for the wonderful ideas. And, Hungarian you are right - I am not trying to do the project for her, but as a 2nd grader I think some help generating ideas is appropriate, and then she can choose and develop the idea.

                          Thanks again everyone!! I will try to keep you posted on the project.

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                            Originally posted by hellerkm View Post
                            How about how many pounds of poop a pony makes in a day compared to how many pounds of food you feed it? I home school my 1st grader and this one was easy for her to do without too much help. We weighed the food and hay that we fed and then we put the poop in a wheelbarrow ( that we had weighed previously) and weighed that. We did keep pony in for 24 hours so we did not miss any poop that might have been dropped in the field LOL!! Not the most glamorous project but my DD loved it!!
                            I love this idea! That would be easy for my 2nd grader, too. We have a small (shetland), medium (14 hh tb/welsh) and "large" (my 16.1 warmblood) - so maybe we could do all three and compare by percentage of body weight.

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                              Originally posted by Come Shine View Post
                              What a neat idea. I hope you don't mind if I pass this on to my DD?
                              Not at all! I thought it was an interesting project and kept having my friend give me updates, LOL.

                              I have thought of testing what treats they like best.
                              I really like this idea! I saw an article in Equus I think (last year?) about what treats horses like ... the favorite was something like cherries or banana ... .

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                              • #16
                                A girl in my sons class did one about how much food goes undigested in the horses intestinal tract- she used wet cob as her feed, an had a diagram of the horses intestinal tract, and had a bag of the feed, a bag of horse poop, and then a mason jar with a lid that had some poop in water so you could see more of the hard grains that were not digested. Mostly corn,lol. it was a fun demo that grossed alot of people out- so i enjoyed it,lol..

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                                • #17
                                  About 7 years ago, my daughter did her high school science project on fertilizing grass with horse manure versus chicken manure versus commercial fertilizer and no fertilizer. She used fescue grass seed and took photos of the grass every week. I was amazed at how thick and dark green the horse manure fertilized grass got. The other fertilizer grass samples got taller faster, but stayed sparse and then slowed down in growth. The science project won a prize in her high school science fair.

                                  I think kids need some help with ideas for science projects, no matter what their ages. Teachers often don't instill the basics about how to do a project. Kids need to be helped to understand their choices of type of study design (e.g., experimental) and how to design the study and analyze the data. If no one helps them, they can't learn it very well on their own. Once they understand how to do a study, it becomes exciting to them.

                                  My daughter who did the study on fertilizing grass is now a grad student who is doing a clinical trial on a physical therapy robot that she helped design. Her love of research began with school science projects. Kids look forward to research if they are given a chance to enjoy it without too much frustration. Once they realize that research is fun, they will look for more opportunities to do research.

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