IMPORTANT SCIENCE FAIR INFORMATION

Dear Parents and Guardians and Grade 1 Super Kids,

Our school will be having a Science Fair on April 24 and 25!
We hope that, with your enthusiastic encouragement, your child will participate in the fair by preparing a project. This will be an exciting experience for your child!

Although students receive help at school from teachers, parent support and assistance are essential to
your child’s success. This is one of those opportunities for families to work with children and brothers and sisters to help each other.

I am confident the following benefits will result from your child’s participation in the Science Fair:

• œ Reinforcement of grade level science, literacy and math skills 
• œ Fostering curiosity, awareness, and creativity 
• œ Increased scientific knowledge 
• œ Learning research techniques 
• œ Growth in ability to work independently 
• œ Having fun with science! 

In addition to the opportunity to work on a project, the Science Fair provides students with an increased awareness of science and an opportunity for them to develop positive attitudes about themselves and their work. The science project allows children to use critical thinking and problem solving skills learned in science and in math.

Please decide who you would like to pair up with based on your geographic location (as much of the work will need to be done at home) and let me know also what your topic will be.

Please find a list of websites below to help you choose a topic:

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/sciencefaircentral/

http://www.surfnetkids.com/science_fair_ideas.htm

http://pbskids.org/dragonflytv/scifair/index.html

http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/

http://www.fatlion.com/science/

http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/HomeExpts/HOMEEXPTS.HTML

http://www.reekoscience.com/

If you have trouble finding a topic, I have a book of experiments for children that they can look at during school time. I cannot lend it out, however, because I am borrowing it from another teacher myself. Please write a note in the communication book to let me know who your child will work with. They may work alone or up to a group of 3. If you could let me know Monday March 10 who you will be working with, that would be ideal. Tuesday March 11 at the latest please.

This is an example of Science Fair project. Students should pick a topic that excites and interests them. They must have a question they want to find an answer to, follow a procedure to find the answer, and then write about what they learned. They will need to write everything out and put it on a poster board similar to the one found above. Like I said, we will work on this in class but much of it will also need to be done at home. Closer to the date of the fair, students will bring their projects into school and I will help them with the finishing touches and we will practice presenting their findings.