Happy 2014 everyone!
It is once again time to think about science fair projects! I am working on a date for this year's fair - trying to coordinate with another district level science fair that is, as yet, unscheduled so we don't have a firm date yet. However, it will be in late April. This will give you plenty of time over Spring break to work on your experiments and still have lots of time to write it all up in a report and make a great display before the deadline!
The guidelines are on the page called "Cheatham Hill Science Fair Guidelines" linked at the top of this page. They are the same as the guidelines for the fair for last year, so some of you will already be familiar with them.
Projects should be experiments. This has been a very common issue with some projects in the last few years... there have been some really great ideas that were not presented in the form of an experiment and lost out on judging points because of that. You should keep a lab note book while you figure out what you are going to do and while you carry our your experiments. When your experiments are complete and you have analyzed your results and drawn some conclusions you should write up a short report that outlines the experiments, your hypothesis, the procedure you followed and your results as well as what you think it all means.
I will have some additional suggestions about how to find a project and how to make it experimental in the coming days. For now, try to come up with a list of things that interest you that you might use as a project. I will update this blog with the final date when we know more. I look forward to seeing what everyone comes up with!
