Science Fair Information!
The 7th Grade Future City Teams will share their projects at our annual Science Fair in lieu of individual experiment and research projects.
The Science Fair date for 2015-2016 is the evening of April 7, 2016 for parents/families. The morning Grandparents' Day fair will be Friday, April 8, 2016.
The Science Fair date for 2015-2016 is the evening of April 7, 2016 for parents/families. The morning Grandparents' Day fair will be Friday, April 8, 2016.
Many helpful readings may be found on the sciencebuddies.org website.
The calendar of due dates may be accessed below.
The calendar of due dates may be accessed below.
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Student Science Fair Packet - You can download the student science fair packet. It has all of the worksheets/planning pages that were handed out to the students, except the research paper checklist that can be found at sciencebuddies.
Readings are found here. With each assigned reading, there is a tab for "worksheet". Some of these are the similar to ones included in the science fair packet and may be printed from here if needed. You may need to make a free account at the site.
Sites to check out for science fair ideas:
- www.sciencebuddies.org - this is our main source, but your project does not required to be from this site
- http://www.ipl.org/div/projectguide/choosingatopic.html - lots of information here, including more links...lots of links! Somewhere here you can find the perfect project!
- http://school.discoveryeducation.com/sciencefaircentral/ - many more ideas and helpful hints for a great project!
Helpful Links:
- http://rsufsd.drupalgardens.com/sites/g/files/g326596/f/201412/Science%20Fair%20Excel.pdf - an excellent guide to using Excel or similar "Open Office" programs to for data table and graphs (from the Remsenburg-Speonk Elementary School in Florida)
- http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/help/user_guide/graph/howto.asp - more on graphing
- https://www.mathsisfun.com/data/data-graph.php - an easy-to-use graph generator