Expect The Best
You won't always get the best version of me, and I understand I won't get the best version of you each day. I do, however, have high expectations of myself and for myself. I give my best each day. I expect the same from you.
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"I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." Thomas Jefferson
"I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me. Failure always made me try harder next time." Michael Jordan
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." Albert Einstein
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Science Fair Project will be due in May, second Semester
The Science Fair will be upon us soon. A science project serves more than one purpose. The most obvious goal is to extend a student’s understanding of science. Science is hands-on by nature, and there is no doubt that hands-on experience facilitates the learning process.
During the second semester, a Science Fair Guide will be available as a resource tool for Parents to help guide your child through a science project using the following five phases, which mirror the scientific method:
Phase 1: Generating an Idea
Phase 2: Research and Planning
Phase 3: Data Collection and Analysis
Phase 4: Writing a Report
Phase 5: Creating and Exhibiting a Display
The Scientific Method
The scientific method allows scientists to further the advancement of knowledge in a strategic and unified manner. When students use the scientific method to design and execute a project they use the same steps that professional researchers use to assemble new information about the world.
The steps of the scientific method that your child will be using appear below.
Purpose: developing an investigative question
Hypothesis: making an educated guess about the answer to the investigative question based on research
Experiment: testing the hypothesis, collecting data, and making observations
Analysis: organizing data from the research an experimentation and looking for patterns
Conclusion: determining if the hypothesis is supported or disproved by the experimental results
Communicating the Results: sharing the conclusions with others
Science Fair Project
Students will be given an opportunity to come up with an idea for a science project to complete.
Variety of resources will be available for the student to research
If a student needs assistance, a project will be assigned.
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