science fair project

[melodyb1985]

My son wants to do a science fair project on my ball but had only has a month and half to do it. Honestly I don't know exactly what he can do it about when it comes to punisher in that little of time. Any ideas? He is in 3 rd grade so it has to be on his level. If not on my snake he wants to do it on sea monkeys. That is his second choice.

[youbeyouibei]

Maybe something with the entire physiology of the animal itself? Poor eyesight but heat detecting pits and how their tongues work to "scent" prey/food in the air, how they can "unhinge' their jaws and the scales along their mouths are able to be opened extremely wide to swallow prey items that are larger than they are, how they achieve locomotion using their scales and no exterior limbs, how they are able to shed their skin as they grow, the fact that their jaws are able to be independently articulated to move prey into their mouths with no hands. This web-site has a lot of brief but interesting facts and topics about ball pythons; might jog something and give him or you both some ideas, maybe.

http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/...ake/index.html

[CaGirl5]

I'm thinking, how many balls do you have?

[CaGirl5]

I'm not sure how many snakes you have but maybe doing something with how they move? Maybe try having them slither through flour(?) on black paper to capture they way they move? Might be interesting if you have different types of snakes

[OsirisRa32]

Maybe something with the entire physiology of the animal itself? Poor eyesight but heat detecting pits and how their tongues work to "scent" prey/food in the air, how they can "unhinge' their jaws and the scales along their mouths are able to be opened extremely wide to swallow prey items that are larger than they are, how they achieve locomotion using their scales and no exterior limbs, how they are able to shed their skin as they grow, the fact that their jaws are able to be independently articulated to move prey into their mouths with no hands. This web-site has a lot of brief but interesting facts and topics about ball pythons; might jog something and give him or you both some ideas, maybe.

http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/...ake/index.html

lots of good ideas there...The divergent evolution of snakes jaw and fang patterns might be interesting to look into in conjunction with the unhinging mechanism of their jaw (universal) versus fang patterns being a way to distinguish species and evolutionary branches of snakes..