Blog 5b: Science Fair Proposal

1. What is your topic?

Child Care

2. What is the driving problem behind your experiment and the quote by an expert to support that problem? (Expert citation must be MLA format.)

Problem: Lack of quality providers in daycares.
"Her travails began with a well-regarded day care center near her suburban New Jersey home. On the surface, it was great. One staff member for every three babies, a sensitive administrator, clean facilities. "But when I went in," Frank recalls, "I saw this line of cribs and all these babies with their arms out crying, wanting to be picked up. I felt like crying myself." She walked out without signing Isaac up and went through a succession of other unsatisfactory situations -- a babysitter who couldn't speak English, a woman who cared for 10 children in her home at once -- before settling on a neighborhood woman who took Isaac into her home. "She was fabulous," Frank recalls wistfully. Three weeks after that babysitter started, she got sick and had to quit."
Quote from: 
Zinsmeister, Karl. "The Problem with Daycare." Thelizlibrary.org. The American Expertise, May-June 1998. Web. 8 Nov. 2012.

3. What is your hypothesis? (Must be in If-Then form.)

If the amount of experience a child care provider has is higher, then the likelihood of the child being more stable at home is higher.

4. Write a paragraph summary of how you will perform the experiment.  Include the tools you plan on using.

In order to do this experiment, I will need to have a survey asking child care providers to answer a few questions regarding the amount of years they have worked under the child care field and the kind of experience they have. I would have another survey that would measure the stability of the child at home, I will use a survey already created by other scientists in order to help me on this part. Another survey would be used to find out the satisfaction of the parents upon sending their child to that daycare.

5. Select one of the following Project Categories for your experiment:

Behavioral/Social Science

Blog 9: Working EQ and Possible Answers

(1) What was the working EQ you used during your presentation?

"How can a child care provider ensure an emotionally and physically healthy child?"

(2) Did you decide to revise your working EQ after your presentation? If so, write your revised EQ here.  If not simple write "I am not going to revise my EQ at this time".

I am not going to revise my EQ at this time.

(3) What are possible answers to your current working EQ? 

• Providing the safest and most secure environment in which the child can explore their surroundings without any trouble.
• Constant communication with the child.
• Meeting their needs in a constant manner.