2023-24 Theme:
"Science For All"
"Science For All"
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What About My School Science Fair? |
MS and HS School
Science Fair Plans to be completed by DCs |
Each MS and HS in RHSD will host a Science Fair and will choose 10 projects to proceed to the RHSD Science Fair. Each school will determine their own format for their school fair. Each school will determine the format of it's Science Fair. Some will require the students to be present for judging others will not. Please check with your Science teacher about the date of your school science fair and the specifics of how it will operate.
Some teachers have asked for a template students may use to submit their project to the teacher as a lab report. Click Here
Some teachers have asked for a template students may use to submit their project to the teacher as a lab report. Click Here
How Do I Decide on a Project?
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Thinking of a Science Fair project can be challenging. I suggest that you start with your interests. Everyone is interested in something whether it be sports, or technology, photography or pets. What questions do you have regarding your interests? What new techniques are out there, how do we know one is better than another? How could you perform a test and collect data to show a difference? The best projects are those that are based on student interests. This is because the student will be intrigued to continue the study and expand the research. The student will be able to articulate the the judges and the pubic the importance of the findings.
There are online sites that give ideas for Science Fair projects, too. If you use these resources, don't neglect your interests. For example, maybe you find a project that asks: Do Plants Grow Taller With Music? This sounds interesting, but if you don't like plants, you think they take too long to grow, and you forget to water your plants - this may not be the project for you. Additionally, lots of other students probably saw this experiment idea so it may not be unique. Use your creativity to ask a question that only you (potentially) have asked.
Check with your Media Specialist. The Media Specialists in RHSD have told me that they want to help students with Science Fair. When you have some time, go to the Media Center and ask the Media Center Specialist where the books and other Science Fair resources are located, you may find or develop a great project this way. Remember, there are a variety of categories in the Science Fair. Math is a category under Computer Science. Maybe you find an online database and analyze the data of something of interest to you. We also have a category called Research Results. In this category, students may present the results of their research. Maybe you are interested in West Nile Virus - it's not feasible to perform an experiment in which you and your friends get stung by mosquitoes and you analyze how many of you get WNV, right! If WNV is of interest to you, you could study it using reliable online resources and present the data you collect as a Research Results project. You would still ask a question, but rather than testable, you ask a researchable question. The answer would not be found in one place, but would be the result of much, extensive research. Example project titles for this category include:
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What are the Categories?
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The Elements of your Presentation
This photo, from http://templatedb.me/pick/ is a suggestion of how your board might look.
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How will my project be judged? |
Need Some Ideas?
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This a video compiled of photos taken at the RHSD Science Fair in
January 2020 |
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