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Scientific Method
4th, 5th 6th Grade
Awards:
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Best Oral Presentation
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Best Display
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Best Effort
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Most Original Idea
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Best Overall Use of Scientific Method
Check out sciencebuddies.com and education.com/science-fair for some ideas
City library will have books on every subject
Pinterest has many experiment ideas
Websites with great ideas –
http://www.easy-science-fair-projects.net/paper-airplane-science-fair-project.html
https://www.education.com/science-fair/
https://www.icanteachmychild.com/science-fair-projects/
http://www.cobbk12.org/varner/sciencemethod.pdf
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/science-fair
Some recommendations for our 4th and 5th Grade Scientists
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Make sure your project only takes up the space of a tri-fold project board. These can be found in the dollar store or an office store.
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Students should decorate their own display and be creative. The work should be done by the student, we want them to be excited about their learning.
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Prepare a 5min presentation for the judges explaining:
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Where did they get the idea for this experiment?
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What do they find interesting about the topic?
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What was difficult? Why?
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Did your experiment work as expected? If not, why? The best experiments do not yield the results we expect, this is how we discover new medicine and technologies!
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The project board should include these Headings –
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Title – make it catchy !
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Question
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Hypothesis - your guess at what YOU think will happen in your experiment
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Background research – read about your topic and write a paragraph to explain it to the judges
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Materials
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Procedure – the steps you too took
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Results – explain what happened, create a table of results and/or a graph
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Conclusion
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Did you answer your Question?
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Was your Hypothesis correct?
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If not, what happened instead? Do you know why that could have happened?
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If you did this experiment again, what would you change?
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