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SCIENCE FAIR NEWS

SCIENCE FAIR NEWS. Essential Question:. What are the steps necessary to completing a quality science fair project?. SC.H.1.2.1: Understands and applies the scientific method to evaluate the natural world. Objectives:. Understand the requirements for a complete science fair project

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SCIENCE FAIR NEWS

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  1. SCIENCE FAIR NEWS

  2. Essential Question: What are the steps necessary to completing a quality science fair project?

  3. SC.H.1.2.1: Understands and applies the scientific method to evaluate the natural world.

  4. Objectives: • Understand the requirements for a complete science fair project • Choose a project that interests the student • Begin the process by choosing a topic and receiving teacher feedback on the topic

  5. Brookview Elementary Science Fair 2012 - 2013 Date: February 4 - 8, 2013 Eligible Students: All students will enter a project. Projects can be completed either individually or with a group. Only 4/5th grade students can advance to the regional science fair. Science Fair Committee Rebecca Blenker blenkerr@duvalschools.org Julie McAvity mcavityj@duvalschools.org Debbie Clingenpeel clingenpeeld@duvalschools.org

  6. Brookview Elementary Science Fair Project Application Dear students and parents, Students are required to participate in this year's science fair. All science fair projects will be completed at home, though they will be able to receive feedback in class. All students will receive a Science Fair Handbook that will explain all the rules and procedures. These are available on the class website if you misplace yours. The due date for your child's entry to the science fair will be February 4th, 2013. The top three projects from each class will participate in the school competition. If you have any questions, please contact your child's teacher. .

  7. Steps for application and completion • The student will pick up a Science Fair Handbook from his / her classroom teacher. • The student then chooses a topic and completes the science project. • • Students will need to use a bound notebook (composition notebook) to record his/her hypothesis, research, experiment log, results, etc. • • Remember, experiments do not have to be a success in order to compete in the fair. • The student displays his/her project on the display board. The display board must include the following: Title, Problem, Hypothesis, Procedure, Materials, Data Analysis, Results, and Conclusion. All display boards are due Monday, February 4th, 2013. • Judges will evaluate each science project on Tuesday, February 5th, 2013. • Projects will be on display February 6th and 7th for students, teachers, and parents to visit. • • Each student will receive a Certificate of Participation. Students scoring in the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place category based on the number of points earned will also receive a ribbon. Judging will be done by selected members of the science community.

  8. Criteria for Judging Evidence of knowledge Conclusion drawn Validity of information Use of scientific method Visual presentation of board Tabulation of results • Required Materials for Display • Display board must include the following: Title, Problem, Hypothesis, Variable, Procedure, Materials, Data Analysis, Results, and Conclusion • Scientific log that records day by day events of your experimentation. The contents of the Log Book must be handwritten with ink in a bound book. • A written report must be included, as well as an annotated bibliography.

  9. Special rules and restrictions * No live animals, taxidermy specimens, preserved vertebrate animals or parts, including embryos * No dried or living plant materials * No human or animal food * No photographs of human subjects, unless a permission form has been signed and is included with the abstract. * No soil or waste samples * No chemicals, including water * No human / animal parts or body fluids * Anything potentially hazardous to public display is prohibited, such as live disease causing pathogenic organisms, microbial cultures, and fungi, food, syringes, flames (open or concealed), highly flammable display materials, combustible solids, dangerous chemicals, including caustics/acids, tanks with combustible gases, or lasers.

  10. Science Fair Project Timeline This is a timeline of the order of the events. This would be helpful to use in setting personal goals and completion times. Use the timeline to create a series of deadlines to keep you on target.

  11. GETTING STARTED • The first thing you need to do is choose a topic. Make sure you pick a topic that you are interested in. • You may have hobbies or problems that you see that need solutions, and you may have an idea for it. • A science project is something that has not been proven yet. For example, we already know how volcanoes erupt, so this would NOT be a topic. • Be sure your teacher approves your topic BEFORE you begin

  12. But, if you are trying to decide if people can tell the difference in the taste of a cookie used with Splenda or a cookie baked with sugar, this WOULD be an experiment. • The most important things to remember when conducting a science experiment are the following: • Be sure to follow the scientific method • Be sure to keep a log book • The display board should be the LAST thing you do.

  13. Data Log Book • The log book is the MOST important part of your experiment. EVERYTHING will go into your log book. • Start with making a list of topics that you are interested in studying. (put in log book) • Conduct some research so that you are familiar with your topic. (put in log book) • Your log book should be HANDWRITTEN in ink.

  14. Leave a couple of pages blank in the front of the book to allow for a table of contents • Make a list of all materials that you will need to do your experiment. • It is a good idea to make drawings of things that may help to explain your project. • Make notes of any problems that you may have. • It is important to make any notes like this because this is how scientists can invent new things because of other researchers’ errors!!!

  15. Record all your data in your log book. • If you are measuring something or observing it over a period of time, write your data down daily. • Be sure to write all the steps of the scientific method in your log book as you go through your experiment.

  16. The Scientific Method

  17. Step 1. Observe and ask Questions • Based on your observations, identify the problem you wish to explore. • Then, ask a clear, specific, testable question. • I am going to use the cookie project for the example for the next few slides.

  18. I want to bake cookies for the students in the classroom, but I have a diabetic student who cannot have sugar. This is my problem. So, I would do some research on Splenda to find out what it is made of, and how it is made. • Then, I would create a question to find the answer, “Is it SPLENDA or SUGAR? Can people tell the difference between a cookie made with Splenda or a cookie made with sugar?”

  19. STEP 2: Form a Hypothesis • This is “What do you think will happen?” • After conducting research and getting familiar with your topic, it is time to form your opinion as to what the results will be. • It is ALRIGHT if your hypothesis is not the same as your results! DO NOT change your hypothesis. • A hypothesis is just an educated GUESS with a clear reason for your thinking. It must be written in the following format: • “If I do __________, then _______ will happen, because of _________.” It is incomplete with this!

  20. So, I am going to form a hypothesis for my project. • “If I use Splenda in some cookies and white sugar in others, then people will be able to taste the difference, because other things with Splenda taste different from those without it.”

  21. STEP 3: PLAN your experiment • ALWAYS PLAN before you do! • You need to make a list of all materials that you will need. • Then, you will need to make a list of the procedure that you will do your experiment. • Make step-by-step instructions.

  22. Materials • Recipe for sugar cookies • sugar • flour • Splenda • butter • mixing bowl • mixer • cookie pan • PAM • oven • timer • spatula • 2 plates • index card • marker • 5 people

  23. Procedure • Step 1: I will get all my materials together to begin making my cookies. • Step 2: Follow recipe for making sugar cookies. • Step 3: Bake sugar cookies • Step 4: While sugar cookies are baking, prepare recipe again, but substitute Splenda for sugar. • Step 5: Bake Splenda cookies • Step 6: Place each batch on different plates • Step 7: Fold index cards in half and label the sugar cookies A and the Splenda cookies B. • Step 8: Then, choose 5 people (usually family members) to do a taste test to determine if they can tell which cookie is baked with Splenda. • Step 9: Record their findings in log book.

  24. STEP 4: Conduct the experiment • Follow your materials and procedure.

  25. STEP 5: Results • After you conduct your experiment, you need to record all results in your log book. • Your data can be easily put into a graph. You can draw one or create one on the computer.

  26. Results • Out of the 5 people who participated in the taste test, only 1 person was able to tell the difference between the two cookies.

  27. STEP 6: Conclusions • When writing the conclusions to your experiment, answer whether or not your hypothesis was correct and of anything that may have affected the results of the test. Include things like: Should you have conducted the experiment on more people? What variables were important? • NEVER alter your results or hypothesis to fit a theory. • Even if your results did not support your hypothesis, you still have accomplished successful scientific research.

  28. Conclusions My hypothesis for my study proved to be incorrect. I believe that in order to have a more accurate answer, I need to conduct my experiment on more than 5 people. One thing that may have affected my results is that out of the 5 people who participated in the study, 3 of them use Splenda regularly at home.

  29. DISPLAY BOARDS

  30. Pictures of the Display Boards as a Finished Product

  31. What Judges Look for: • Creativity -Be creative when phrasing your question and how you display it on your board. • Your Own Work -Be sure that you make your board yourself. Your parents can help, but YOU should be the one who is writing everything and putting it together. • Write big - The rule is that if it can’t be read 6 feet away, it is too small. If you are typing, use a big font. Use bullets-you don’t have to write in complete sentences on your board • Understanding -You should make sure you have knowledge of what you did. Your board and log book should show that.

  32. Things you need to know • Neither food or living things can be part of your display. That includes plants, foods, candy, etc… • However, you can, and should, take pictures throughout your experiment and post them on your board. • IF you use PHOTOS, you ARE allowed to be in the picture. However, you must give credit to the person who took the picture. If it is someone that is not part of your family, they must have a permission form completed.

  33. You CANNOT grow any kind of molds! No cheese, breads, etc.. • You CANNOT alter a plant such as using sugar water, coke, etc.. However, you can use ideas like “Which fertilizer makes plants grow faster?”

  34. The last thing you should write in your log book is: • “If I had the chance to re-do my investigation, I would change……..”

  35. Additional Online Resources Science Fair Resources http://www.sciencebuddies.org Science Fair Project Resource Guide http://www.ipl.org/div/projectguide/ Science Fair Info http://www.kathimitchell.com/scifair.htm Elmer’s Science Fair Central http://school.discoveryeducation.com/sciencefaircentral/ http://www.cgcc.edu/sci_fair/home.html

  36. GOOD LUCK!!!!

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