Journals of the Kids' Inquiry Conference

KIC 2002 at UMBC
Bacteria
Be a Good Consumer
Bird Feeder Research
Bird Mania
Bubble Burst
Bubble Gum Flavor
Can it Hold?
Chewing Gum Flavors
Crystal Growing Mania
The "Dirt" on Soil
Eggs & Pressure
A Green Lizard and What it Likes to Climb On
Growing Plants
Investigating Mold
Making Dyes
Mighty Magnets
Minty Fresh
Oh Rats! City Pests in the Garden
The Outdoor Classroom (1)
The Outdoor Classroom (2)
Polarized Light (1)
Polarized Light (2)
Seed Survival
Shady Science: How Does the Sun Affect Plants?
Structures
Swoosh! Basketball Correlation
UV Beads (1)
UV Beads (2)
Volcanoes
Way to Water!
What Fruit Plant Grows the Tallest in Two Weeks?
The Wonder of Worms

KIC 2001 at UMBC
Bubble Gum Flavor Test
Cats: How Good Is Their Memory?
Crystals
The Diet Soda Challenge
Diet Soda Research (1)
Diet Soda Research (2)
Dissolving Substances (1)
Dissolving Substances (2)
Dissolving Substances (3)
Do People Have Different Tastes?
Dogs (1)
Dogs (2)
Dogs and How Fast They Eat
Eating Habits of Rabbits (1)
Eating Habits of Rabbits (2)
Electric Magnets
Erosion (1)
Erosion (2)
Erosion (3)
Experimenting With Polymers
Fluffy Raisins: An Experiment on Osmosis
Great Grease Experiment
Green Anoles (1)
Green Anoles (2)
Guinea Pig Research (1)
Guinea Pig Research (2)
Lighter than Air
The Little Worm that Could
Mighty Hamster Maze
Magnets
Molds
Plant Growing Experiment
Rusty Nails
Sand and Mud Mountain
Snake Eating Behavior
Snakes
Snakes' Senses and Eating Habits
UV Beads (1)
UV Beads (2)
Watering Plants
We Are Going to Talk About Solar Energy
What Will Rust Nails?
Yeast Feast

KIC 2000 at York College of Pennsylvania
Attracting Flies
Beauty in the Sky
Boat Measurement and Strength
Dew Drops
Does V8 Grow Plants As Well As Water?
Electricity and Magnets
Electromagnets
Erosion Control
Eye Color (1)
Eye Color (2)
Eyes
Ferret Food
Fossils
Heavy Heavy Liquids
How Long Batteries Last
Model Rocketry
Mold Garden
Plant Extravaganza!
Plant Growth
Plant Rally (1)
Plant Rally (2)
Rabbit Food
Rocks and Electricity
Rubber Bands
Stamp Glue
The Amazing Volcano!
Toy Vehicle Speeds (1)
Toy Vehicle Speeds (2)
Toy Vehicle Speeds (3)
U.V. Beads (1)
U.V. Beads (2)
U.V. Detecting Beads
Weather and its Effect on Flight
World in a Bottle

KIC 1999 at Towson State University
Better Beans
Crabby Crabs
Crazy Kitchen Chemicals
Flowers: White to Blue
The Flying Balls
The Great Soda Challenge
The Great Wet Lung Machine
High Flying and Out of Sight Pocket Flyers!
How Strong Can It Go?
The Intelligent Anoles
Look on the Bright Side
Looking Through an Amazing Tube
Mega Mars Mania
Mystery Crystals
Potato Party
Salt: The Melter, The Killer
The Secret of Liquids
The Strongest Structure
This Rocks
Tigers Choice
Will the Bag EXPAND?
The Wonderful World of Crystals
Would You Grow in This?
You Wanna Hear a Secret?

KIC 1999 at York College of Pennsylvania
Baby Peeps
Bacteria Research
Baking Soda Submarines
Baseball Power
Batteries
Bird Odd Behaviors
Bird Seed Experiment
Birds
Birds of Prey (#1)
Birds of Prey (#2)
Bright Lights and Colored Sights (#1)
Bright Lights and Colored Sights (#2)
Cardinal Research
Chameleons
Cloud Watching
Conditions Effecting Rust
Dimes
Egg-cellent
Erosion
Feeding Different Liquids to Petunias
Gerbils oh Gerbils
Goldfish Investigation
Gooey, Messy, Cool, it's Clay! (#1)
Gooey, Messy, Cool, it's Clay! (#2)
Growing Plants
Hamster Maze
Homemade Weed Killers
Household Conductors
It Keeps Going and Going and Going!!!
Liquid Batteries
Man Made Toy Boat
Mealworm Beetles Diet
Mealworm Food
Mealworms and What They Eat
Planets (#2)
Plant Fertilizers
Plants and Their Growth
Solar Cars/ Solar Energy
The Amazing Light Bulb
The Blue Whale and Human Skeleton Compared
The Ultimate Lower Leg Guard for Soccer
Three Little Potatoes
Water Balloon Bonanza
Water on Mars
What are the Favorite Birds of Students at Arbutus Elementary School?
What Birds Fly in Flocks?
What Birdseed Do Birds Like Best?

KIC 1998 at Towson State University
Antibiotics
Bacteria
Burglar Alarm
Colorful, Colorful Colors
Cool Rainbows
Crazy Cool Crystals
Fish- Characteristics/ Cage Set-up
Fish- Feeding/ Care Taking
Hermit Crabs: Eat and Go!
Hot or Cold?
Ice, Ice Baby
Leopard Geckos- Animal Characteristics
Leopard Geckos- Cage Set-up
Leopard Geckos- Care-taker
Leopard Geckos- Feeder
Parakeets- Animal Characteristics/ Cage Set-up
Parakeets- Care-taking
Parakeets- Feeding
Plastic Pages for Keeping Cards Safe From Water
Rabbit- Animal Characteristics/ Cage Set-up
Rabbit- Care Taking
Rabbit- Feeding
Reading Your Friends Mind By Looking at Their Eyes, Is It Possible?
Rubberband Propelled Planes
Salamanders, Newts, and Fire-Bellied Toads- Animal Characteristics
Salamanders, Newts, and Fire-Bellied Toads- Cage Set-up
Salamanders, Newts, and Fire-Bellied Toads- Care Taking
Salamanders, Newts, and Fire-Bellied Toads- Feeding
Snake- Animal Characteristics/ Cage Set-up
Snake- Care-Taking
Snakes- Feeding
The Tetrahedron Kite
Yo! Ants!
Zoom Balloon!

KIC 1997 at Becton Dickinson
Bacteria (1)
Bacteria (2)
Bacteria (3)
Bacteria Beyond Belief
Bacteria Fur Farm
Bacteria Research
Bacteria: Friend or Foe Good or Bad
Bouncing Goop!
Can Lizards Learn From Experience?
Clay Crazy
Computer Game
Do You Train Your Cat or Does Your Cat Train You?
Dog's Best Friend
Eh, What's on the Menu Doc?
Electricity
Experiment #1
Flavor or No Flavor
Goops
Hamster Mazia (1)
Hamster Mazia (2)
Hamsters and Mazes
How Appealing
Iodine + Starch = Purple
Kelly 5/10/97
Mood Things
Paper: A Struggle Against Liquids
Pendulum Art
Rabbit Research
Rabbits and Their Growth
Sinking and Floating
Stain Mania
The Boston Terrier's Choice
The Rabbit Race
The Rotten Truth
UV Topps or Trash
Volcanoes
Wind Power Boat
Wind Powered Vehicles

KIC 1997 at York College of Pennsylvania
Water Rocket
Learn About Flying
How Does a Clock Work?
Rodent Remains
Yum Yum, Almost Dinner
The Force of Motion
Fuzzy Boney, Boney and Fuzzy
Silly Markers
The Race Is On
Going, Going, Gone
Weather or Not, Here It Comes
Fantastic Balloon Popping
Testing Boats That Sink and Float
Earthworms Eat! Earthworms Sleep!
Did You Ever Wonder About Bubble Gum?
Fantastic Rocket Balloons
Hungry, Sleepy Hamsters
Sticky Goo Glue
Markers: The Next Colorful Thing
Magnets Stick Like Magic
Herbs and Flowers
Mealworms
Super Speed is a Snap
Parachute Drop
KIC Shirts: They Art To Dye For!
Look on the Bright Side
Crystals
Light Reflecting
How Does a Boxcar Go?
How Hard Will Bean Seeds Search for Water?
Super Salamanders and Nosg Newts
See the A-maze-ing Hamster!
How Can Vou Make a Volcano Erupt?
How Can I Make the Water Clean?

KIC 1996 at Becton Dickinson
Splash, Boom, Bing, Bang
Sim City
The Fascinating Facts about Paper Towels
Unsanitary Uglies
Colors, Colors Everywhere!
Flower Power
Creating, Using, and Loving Glue
The Volcano-Chemical Connection
Motors in Water
Super Surveys
Water Catching Umbrella
Hospitals in Space
Back to the Future IV
What is a Hamster's Favorite Food?
How Will a Plant React to an Acid and a Base?
Can Guinea Pigs Climb Stairs?
Come See the Frog Eat Rainbow Fish
Who Has the Brains: A Hamster or a Mouse?
What is the Digestive System of the Venus Fly Trap?
To Change or Not to Change?
What Will the Hamster Go for: Dog or Cat Food?
Twinkies Ring of Food: Which Food is Twinkle's Favorite?
To Explode or Not to Explode? That is the Question
Electricity with Metal: Which is a Better Conductor?
Is Sugar or Plant Food Better for a Growing Plant?
An Icy Situation
Frog and Toad Battle it Out in Hop Till You Drop
Can a Fish Go Through a Maze?
Recovering Soil from Sea Water
Glue
Cave Formation
Resin Beads
Resin Beads
Resin Beads
Recovering Soil from Sea Water
Gases and Balloons
Gases and Balloons
Becton Dickinson Resin Beads
Cavern Formation
Resin Beads
Snake Intelligence
Snake Intelligence

KIC 1996 at the Stouffer Renaissance Harborplace Hotel
Will They Die?
Amphibians: Eating and Other Habits
Baking Soda, Vinegar, and Other Liquids and Powders
Weather
Investigating Cells
The Camera: How Does It Take Pictures?
How Far Can a Frog Jump?
Keeping Flowers Alive
What Water is Best for Plants?
Planting in Soils
Our Classroom Aquarium: Why Does It Turn So Green?
Electricity
Mealworms
Space and Beyond
What Do Gerbils Do?
A Comparison Between a Balloon Monorail and a Balloon Car
Batteries
Book Kids
Boxcars
Bubble Gum
Clay Company
Dental Health
Eruption Group
Markers and Pens
Newts and Salamanders
Crystals
Gerbils: Are They Smart?
Those Mealworms
Plants, Plants, and More Plants
Volcanoes
Solar Ovens
Solar Powered Ovens
Chemicals on the Loose
Hot House
Electromagnet
Building Structures
Solar Power Cookers
Solar Powered Cars
Herman's Bottle Rocket
Crickets

KIC 1995, May 25 at UMBC
Balloons
Batteries
Batteries
Boxcars
Clay
Crystals
Diapers
Dog Food
An Environmentally Safe Household Cleaner
Erosion
Glues
Glues
Glues
Hamsters, Are They Really Smart?
The Literature Ladies
Magnets
Magnets
Making Glue
Mealworms
Mealworms
Mixtures
Mold
Oil Spills
Ozze Tubes
Polymers
Saltwater and Grass
Sealed Terrariums
Soap and Bubbles
Water Clocks
Water Research
Which Glue Lasts the Longest?
Which Glue Lasts the Longest?

KIC 1995, May 26 at UMBC
The Amazing Airsled
A-maze-ing Mealworms
Bees
Bell Circuits
Can Volcanoes Help Earth? (and other things about volcanoes)
Chimpanzees
Colored Popcorn
Common Garter Snake
Cool Color Changing
Crystals
Crystals
Diapers
Dumb or Smart, Do You Know Your Dog's IQ?
Ecosystems
Fashion Foods (Dogs)
Frogs, Toads, and Tadpoles
Fruity Facts
Gerbils, Gerbils, Gerbils
Glue
Grass
Incredible Dyes
Magnetic Hockey Game
Magnets
Mealworms
The Mousey Awards
Newt Reactions
pH Levels
Poison
Rabbits
Seashells
Snakes
Snakes
Soap and Windex
Soda
Squid Adventures
Squirrel Proofing Bird Feeders
Stars and Building a Planetarium
TV Shows
Tyrannosaurus Rex Model
Volcanoes
Water Fountain

KIC 1994 at UMBC
Balloons
The Battery Group
Carpet Cleaners
Diaper Research
Dogfood
Electronics
Gases and Balloons
Giant Squid
Glue Research
Goldfish
Household Cleaners
Ice Cream Research
Molds
Oils
Paint People
Plants and Fertilizers (1)
Plants and Fertilizers (2)
Sealed Terrariums
Solar Ovens
The TV- Watching Project
Water Group
Weedkillers

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