Bellview Science Fair
Thursday, April 18th, 2024
6:00pm-7:00pm
What: The Belleview Science Fair! This is a noncompetitive, voluntary event.
Where/When: Thursday, April 18th in the school gym from 6pm-7pm.
Students will bring their project displays to their classrooms the morning of the 9th and set them up in the school gym during the first hour of the school day.
All projects should be able to be set up without outside adult support. There will be a team of 5th grade Science Ambassadors to help any student who needs assistance setting up their displays on the day of the event.
Projects need to be taken home on Friday, April 19th.
Who: All Bellview students are welcome to participate, K-5! Projects are to be completed at home. Projects can be done individually or with a friend and/or class.
Display boards are available at the front office when you turn your permission slip in.
How to do a science fair project:
1. Pick a topic that interests you! This can be about anything – what are you curious about?
2. Decide what type of project you want to do (see below)
3. Do the project, do the research!
4. Create a display board that explains what you did and shows your results
5. Bring your project to school and share what you learned
Types of science fair projects:
● Collection: Observe and display a variety of some type of thing. Examples: airplanes, rocks, seeds, bicycles, seashells, crystals. How are they different?
● Observations/Research Passion Project: Present information on a scientific topic that you’ve found in books, the internet, or other sources. Examples: nebulas, sharks, narwhals, rainforests of Costa Rica, just about anything in the natural world!
● Demonstration: Explain and demonstrate how something works. Example: How do airplanes fly?
● Inventions: Identify a need or problem and then invent or modify a product that fills the need or solves the problem. Example: It’s hard to get all the toothpaste out of the tube!
● Experiments: Ask a question and then attempt to answer it through a test. An experiment uses the “scientific method” (below) that allows scientists to answer questions and build knowledge.
The following are steps used in the scientific method:
Purpose/Problem:
Ask a question.
Hypothesis:
Guess what the answer is.
Procedure:
Come up with a way to test your hypothesis.
Observations and Results:
Describe what you observed, and how you observed it.
Conclusion:
Did your observations and results agree with your hypothesis? If so, what did you learn from that? If not, make a guess (new hypothesis) as to why your observations did not agree with your first hypothesis, and an idea for how to test your new hypothesis.
Here is an example of a display board for a science fair project using the scientific method:
TITLE
Purpose
(Ask a question.)
Procedure
(What you did to answer the question.)
Results
(What happened)
Hypothesis
(What you think the answer is.)
Photos, Drawings Pictures
Conclusion
(What you learned)
Name & Grade go on the back of your board
Many science fair ideas can be obtained by searching through library books or safely searching reliable internet sites for “science fair projects”. Below are some examples of project ideas.
● Why did my penny change color when it fell in my lemonade?
● Why do some things dissolve in water and others do not?
● What makes plants grow slower or faster?
● Demonstration about different types of leaves.
● Research on animals speed versus size
● What is a wart? How do you treat it?
● Does water with salt boil faster than plain water?
● Does water with salt freeze faster than plain water?
● What is “rot”? What happens when something rots?
● Why do some things float, and other things don’t?
● Why do balls bounce?
Rules and Guidelines:
1. All projects must be safe. Project displays must have no open flames, smoke, bad odors, flammable or poisonous chemicals, or high voltage wires. No projects will be allowed to use electricity from electrical outlets.
2. Projects must be humane. All experiments using animals or humans should cause no harm or undue stress to the subject (this includes your friends, pets, and siblings).
3. You can display additional items as long as they will fit on the table in front of your board. If these items are valuable or fragile consider taking pictures instead of risking damage to the original item.
Leave animals at home during the science fair.
Let's get started!
Yno Monjes
ynocencio.monjes@ashland.k12.or.us
Science Fair Coordinator
Return the registration form below to the main office by April 8th to participate.
