Episode 8: Organizing Science Fair Data with Students
Release Date: 11/29/2014
Episode 15: Beyond the Classroom Science Fair
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Episode 14: Science Fair Presentation Day
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In this episode I share how I set up my Science Fair presentation day. I explain how students were organized to give their presentations and how I assessed them. I also reflect on how the presentations went and the ups and downs of the results. Finally, I describe how I conform my non-traditional Science Fair methods to the demands of the district level Science Fair.
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Episode 13: Preparing Science Fair Presentations
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On today’s podcast I talk about preparing students for Science Fair day. It will include how I prepare students for their oral and visual presentations, the technology we use to do it, and how our Science Fair day is different than a tradition science fair. ...
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Episode 12: Science and Literacy - Writing Conclusions and Abstracts for Science Fair
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This is where the rubber meets the road. Can students determine the validity of their hypotheses? Listen to hear how I coach students in scientific thinking AND writing as they write up their conclusions to their Science Fair projects. Also hear how I guide my students to writing an Abstract which they use to summarize their entire experimental process. Also, hear how the awesome Language Arts teachers on my team interdisciplinized the Science Fair by creating an independent reading list which students used to contextualize their project in their writing. This has proven especially...
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Episode 11: Teaching Math in Science
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Episode 10: Analyzing Science Fair Data with Students, part 2
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In this episode I continue to share my experiences with students in organizing and graphing their data. I discuss the methods for taking all their data and displaying it in a single table. In addition, I outline how students gain expertise on graph types and decide what type of graph to use for their data. Click the links below to download copies of materials I used with my students.
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Episode 9: Analyzing Science Fair Data with Students, part 1
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Episode 8: Organizing Science Fair Data with Students
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In Episode 8, I discuss how students concluded their data gathering by organizing their data into a meaningful data table. We also brainstormed ways to use math to help "summarize" the data. Finally, students researched types of graphs in order to choose one that best represented their data. ...
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Episode 7: Science Fair Goes to Humanities - Working With Colleagues, part 1
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The awesome Lillie Marshal, 7th grade Humanities teacher joins for this episode of the podcast. She shares how she welcomed Science Fair into her classroom and curriculum and how she used it to teach research concepts. Listen to hear how to work with colleagues to “interdisciplinize” your Science Fair.
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Episode 6: Making an Observation Protocol for Science Fair
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In Episode six, I reveal how students went about crating an observation protocol. They know that they are trying to find the affect their trash item has on the growth of plants. But what do they mean by growth? There are many ways in which a plant grows. I'll explain how I engaged students to create a protocol for what they will measure and how they'll go about doing it.
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In Episode 8, I discuss how students concluded their data gathering by organizing their data into a meaningful data table. We also brainstormed ways to use math to help "summarize" the data. Finally, students researched types of graphs in order to choose one that best represented their data.
In addition, I took this moment in the Science Fair continuum to have students reflect on the process so far. It's important to do this regularly because the experiment takes place over such a long period of time. It helps them to put their day to day work into the context of their overall experiment. It's easy for them to forget the point!