Science Fair Dates and Info

January 14 - Topics of project must be finalized (2 marks)- your purpose must be completed. ( the purpose is the question about the experiment that you are trying to answer)

January 28 - Purpose, hypothesis and Procedure must be comepleted. (5 marks) These three steps are what is needed in order to do the lab, at this point you should be ready to complete the rest of the expermiment. (remember, Procedure must be all steps and materials that are needed it must be very specific to the exact detail of what must be done in your lab. It should be able to be done my anyone given your instructions.

February 4 - Written report (15 marks) must be completed. This means that you must have all of your data ready to go- you must have all research done and all of your trials of your experiment completed. Your written report must be typed and in scientific method format. This will be evaluated and handed back to you so that corrections can be made before the science fair.

February 11 - Final project must be completed and ready to present. This happens in two ways, presentation and written report.
The presentation (15 marks)is usually on poster board on so that all parts can be viewed - other enhancers may be used, such as: video, powerpoint/smartnotebook, pictures, etc... All elements of your project must be visable.
The written copy is the corrections that you have made following my feedback - and typed. It is easy to make changes if you save your work on a flash drive. You will not be reevaluated on this, the mark from you original will stand as your mark. However, you will receive 3 marks for making corrections to written copy based on the feedback.

Nelson Science Symposium and District 16 Science Fair dates will follow. The Nelson Science Symposium will have all projects displayed and you will defend your project rather then present one at a time.

Grade 7's your dates will be adjusted to a day later in that week since you do not have Science on Monday's. Those dates will follow.