PARKMEAD FAMILY SCIENCE FAIR

 

STUDENT CHECKLIST*

 

 

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q       Choose a topic that you are interested in doing (one that is not too hard nor too easy).

 

q       Fill out the Science Fair Registration Form – please submit the form as early as possible.

 

Once your have turned in your Registration Form, you can begin work on your project.

 

q                   Organize everything that you plan to do – make sure to follow the safety rules!

 

q                   Write out your procedures

 

q                   If you are doing an experiment, make a guess (hypothesis) about what you think will happen

 

q                   Gather your materials

 

q                   Prepare your model or collection, perform your observations or experiment, or demonstrate a scientific principle

 

q                   Record your observations

 

q                   What did you learn or find out by doing this project; what new questions come to mind?

 

q                   For experiments, see if your original guess (hypothesis) was correct.

 

q       Begin work on your display.  Present the information you collected in easy-to-read graphs or tables.  Include any photographs taken as part of your project.  If you did an experiment, reserve special areas of your display for your Problem, Hypothesis, Procedure, Results and Conclusions.

 

q       Bring your project to school for the Fair on the day of the fair. Setup is from 2:00-4:00PM and 5:30-6:15PM.

 

 

*  Adapted from Insights Visual Productions material and Delta Education’s “Great Investigations One Step at a Time!  A Teacher’s Guide to Science Fairs and Science Olympics”

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