Make science projects exciting by showing them off at a science event.
Science can be amazing, but just having a school science fair where participants roam around looking at many different projects is not the most innovative way to highlight your students' work. Create an event that highlights your students' science projects. Develop theme events at school to get the school and community involved in science learning, or create theme rooms to show off the different aspects of your students' science project themes.
Health Fair
Do science projects about parents and teachers at a health fair.
Science experiments can be an incentive for people to get healthy. Open this event to the school community or the community at large. Have participants compete to see who has the slowest resting heart rate, the fastest increase in heart rate when using an exercise bike, and the best ability to fill balloons on a single breath. Have students study the human body, then each group of students can organize a table on one aspect on human physiology, exercise and health.
Crime Day
Solve mysteries using science projects at a crime day.
Science is not only about flashes and bangs, it's also about solving mysteries. This event is most suitable for older students. Discuss the use of science in solving the mysteries of archaeology and forensics. Students can do science projects on the unique nature of fingerprints. They can look at animal skulls to determine how large and how old the animal was and what it ate, and perhaps get some clues into why it died. If you feel really ambitious, do insect and decay experiments with items like old fruit and meat and track the creatures that begin to inhabit these items.
Mad Science Day
Become a mad scientist with wild science projects.
This one is sure to go off with a bang. Students love to feel like mad scientists experimenting with strange substances. This is the time to do experiments about the solid to gas conversion with dry ice. Creating magic mud with cornstarch and water highlights the strange nature of colloidal substances. Students can also create bouncy, rubbery polymer from borax, water and glue. All these experiments should take place with adult supervision. Of course, a large baking soda and vinegar volcano is sure to add just the right touch for the beginning of your Mad Science event.
Science in History
Study great moments in history through science projects.
As part of this event, students can relive important moments in the history of science. How did the Wright Brothers try to get off the ground? Build model planes and fly them. Did Newton really get a good understanding of gravity when an apple fell on his head? Have students research the history of science and find a particular moment that interests them, then relive it in front of the class or at a school assembly.
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