science fair reminders

                                Mar Vista Science Fair 2016

2/3/2016   science fair project due (in Mar Vista MPR)  and  6-7 parent night
*we will be presenting our projects in class on 2/5
2/12/16   registration for the county science fair closes
3/12/16  county science fair

About your board and journal:

Journal:   Should  really be a record of your experiment planning, process, thinking, observations and practice for presentation board.  No white out or erasing, just cross out with a single line.

entries should include:

-choosing project/research done

-gathering supplies

- setting up the experiment ( intro, hypothesis, procedure)

-  what happened during the experiment (observations/data/results/thoughts and ideas/problems that occur changes that need to be made etc)  (anything and everything…the more the better)

-if you had to watch your experiment over a time period you should record your data/observations

- why did you get those results?  what was learned (conclusion)

Science Board

Introduction What is your experiment’s purpose? What is your question your are trying to answer? What are you trying to solve/figure out? Hypothesis What do you think will happen? Methods/Procedure: What are the steps of your experiment?

CATCHY TITLE AND SCIENTIST NAMES Visuals Photos, graphs etc. Data data tables, charts and/or observations Results What were the results of your experiment? What happened? What did you find out?

Discussion/Conclusion Was your hypothesis supported or not? Analyze and interpret your results?  Why do you think you got the results that you did? What do results mean? What were sources of error or problems? What are your next steps? Why does this matter? References Any resources used or research done (websites, books, magazines etc.) Acknowledgments people to thank or those whole helped you in some way.

* we will be presenting our boards in class on (do not take them home until after you present them in class) 

Presentations will be short (1-3 min)- where you describe your experiment- what you did and what you were trying to figure out?  What the results were?  Why it is important/what you learned?

*You only need to do a science report if you go to the county science fair.

How you will be scored:

Journal (10 pts) -easy to understand -thorough/detailed

Science Board/Overall Project (25 pts) -neatness/attractiveness -sequencing of display was logical -clear explanation of project -adequate sample size (3 trials min.) -accurate observations and measurements -demonstrates and understanding  of the material -conclusions accurately based on data

Presentation  (15 pts) -well described project: what you did?  what you were trying to figure out? what were results?  what did you learn/why was this important?