Science Fair - Holidays

Over the holidays, you are required to prepare for Science Fair by reading through the instruction booklet and deciding on a topic.

You need to have your topic ready to tell me on the first day of Term 2.

Click the hyperlinks to see the Science Fair instruction booklet and a very comprehensive list of Science Fair ideas. (You need a gmail account to access these Google Docs files).

You are welcome to print out the instruction booklet and list of ideas at home if you wish.

Click these hyperlinks to see the powerpoint of the Science Fair process and the Technology Science Fair process that we looked at in class. (You need a gmail account to access these Google Docs files).

You can also get these files by going to Mr Marsh's LMS page. To access this, sign into Ourspace, then scroll to the bottom of the screen where it says 'Search Courses'. Enter the word 'science' and click 'go'. Then click on the word 'Science' at the top left.

Original topics are best - avoid cliched topics like 'which bread grows the most mould?', 'which bubble gum grows the biggest bubbles?', 'which baked beans produce the most gas?'.  Remember experiments which involve moulds or bacteria or those which would hurt animals or people in any way are not allowed.

Also, the Regional Science Fair has awards and $$$ prizes associated with; engineering, conservation (a number), things Maori, radio, mineral/mining, statistics, flour/baking industry, forestry, horticulture, agriculture, sports, and technology science investigations so you may want to follow one of these lines.

Finally, you will need to buy a 1B5 exercise book which will be your log book for Science Fair.