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fergusonscience4th/5th	Mrs. Ferguson
St. Theresa School
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4TH AND 5TH GRADE

Jan 15 2010

Starting the RAIN FOREST .
Jan 29,2010 the 4th and 5th grade will be Rain Forest tour guides for K-3rd grade.
Each student will need to to what grows, lives, and know how important it is for us.
More to come after Christmas break.

Remember if you are absent you must write a 1 page report on anything science or play 3 games below. Or you will get a zero for that class day. Only exception: if you are sick you must have a note.

SCIENCE FAIR
TIME LINE

GET A NOTEBOOK Due Jan 15 th 2010
Use a small notebook to write down everything related to your science project.

INFORMATION GATHERING Due over Christmas break
Find out about what you want to investigate. Read books, magazines, search the internet, or ask professionals who might know in order to learn about the effect or area of study. Keep track of where you got your information...write the reference information in your notebook.

PICK A PROJECT Due over Christmas break
What do you want to find out? Write a statement that describes what you want to do. Use your observations and questions to write the statement. Write the statement in your notebook. The project you pick to study should be a way to test something you have noticed or to answer a question you have about how something works. Keep it simple. Try to make your science project easy to test, within a reasonable amount of time. Your science project should be your own idea. It is cheating to copy someone else’s idea.

TITLE THE PROJECT Due Jan 15, 2010
Choose a title that describes the effect or thing you are investigating. The title should summarize what the investigation will deal with. Write your title in your notebook.

MAKE A HYPOTHESIS Due Jan 15
Make a statement describing how or why you think the observed things work. A hypothesis must be stated in a way that can be tested by an experiment.

DESIGN AN EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE TO TEST YOUR HYPOTHESIS DUE JAN 22,2010
Design an experiment to test your hypothesis. Make a step-by-step list, in your notebook, of what you will do to answer your questions. This list is called an experimental procedure.

Guidelines for Experimental Procedures
• Select only one thing to change in each experiment. Things that can be changed are called variables.
• Change something that will help you test your hypothesis.
• The procedure must tell how you will change this one thing.
• The procedure must explain how you will measure the amount of change.
• Each type of experiment needs a "control" for comparison so that you can see what the change actually did.
OBTAIN MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT Due JAN 22,2010
Make a list in your notebook of the things you need to do the experiments, and prepare them. If you need special equipment, a local college or business may be able to loan it to you. Keep track in your notebook of where you got your supplies.

INITIAL OBSERVATION Due JAN 22.2010
You notice something, and wonder why it happens. You see something and wonder what causes it. You want to know how or why something works. Ask a question about what you have observed. The first step is to write down in your notebook what you have noticed and a question or questions you have about what you have observed.

DO THE EXPERIMENT AND RECORD DATA DUE FEB 12, 2010
Do the experiment and record all numerical measurements made in your notebook. Data can be amounts of chemicals used, how long something is, the time something took, etc. If you are not making any measurements, you probably are not doing an experimental science project.

RECORD YOUR OBSERVATIONS DUE Feb 12, 2010
Observations can be written descriptions of what you noticed during an experiment, or problems encountered. Keep careful notes of everything you do, and everything that happens. Observations are valuable when drawing conclusions, and useful for locating experimental errors.

CALCULATIONS
Perform any math needed in your notebook to turn raw data recorded during experiments into numbers you will need to make tables, graphs or draw conclusions.

SUMMARIZE RESULTS DUE Feb 26, 2010
Summarize what happened in your notebook. This could be in the form of a table of numerical data or graphs. It could also be a written statement of what occurred during the experiments.

DRAW CONCLUSIONS DUE Feb 26, 2010
Using the trends in your experimental data and your experimental observations, try to answer your original question. Is your hypothesis correct? Now is the time to pull together what happened, and assess the experiments you did.
Other Things You Can Mention in the Conclusion
• If your hypothesis is not correct, what could be the answer to your question?
• Summarize any difficulties or problems you had doing the experiment.
• Do you need to change the procedure and repeat your experiment?
• What would you do different next time?
• List other things you learned.

WHAT IF MY SCIENCE PROJECT DOESN'T WORK?
You do not have to do a different science project if yours didn’t work as planned. No matter what happens, you will learn something. Science is not only about getting "the answer." Knowing that something didn't work is actually knowing quite a lot. Experiments that don't turn out as planned are an important step in finding an answer.

This will be done at School Starting March 12, 2010
You must have a board at school ON this day.

WE WILL MAKETHE POSTER PRESENTATION AT SCHOOL

MAKE A POSTER

A free-standing, foldable, regulation size (36” x 48”) project board will be purchased by the student …available at Staples or Office Depot for about $10.

The poster should contain:
• Title
• Hypothesis statement
• Experimental procedure
• Materials and equipment
• Results in written and graph or table form with appropriate axes labeled
• Conclusions
• References
• Student name and grade level
• Other material may be added to the poster as desired.
• The notebook should be presented along with the poster

SCIENCE PROJECTS ARE DUE AT School Friday, MARCH 26H
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PRESENTATION

The science projects will be set up in the Social Hall at St. Theresa’s on the morning of Friday March 26. Students from other classes will have an opportunity to view the science projects during the day on 3/29/10 Science Fair open all weekend and on Monday 3/29/2010. All projects picked up by 3:15 PM or they will go in the trash.

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