Science Fair

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prepared!

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Beck Science Fair Rules and Regulations

Beck Elementary Science Fair is an opportunity for students to understand the world around us through experimentation and problem solving and develop key skills in the process. Using the scientific method, students will test a hypothesis regarding a subject of their choice and display their experiments to test it, observations made, and results in a poster board. Science experts will review each project with awards given to participants in each category. 

While models and displays are fun and cool experiences to share, they’re not what we’re looking for the science fair: we want you to look into something you’re curious about and go through the steps of the scientific method as you dive deeper into answering a specific question.

PARTICIPATION

• Science Fair projects are voluntary for students to complete at home.
• There are 2 categories PreK-2nd and 3rd-5th.
• Science fair project submissions are limited to individuals or teams of 2 students maximum.
• Presentation of your science fair project:
  • You’ll have a table on the science lab or the STEM room or Science Lab to set up your science fair project.
  • You will need to have your project set up by 3:30 pm on March 6th if you’d like your project to be judged.
  • Judges need to see that you’ve followed the scientific method, so we highly recommend having a poster/display board with all of the steps you followed laid out. See below image for a suggested layout.
  • Feel free to bring other props or parts of your experiment to share.
  • Please no laptop presentations!
  • Judging is done blindly, so DO NOT put your name on the poster board. You may not perform the experiment live. You will only be judged on your display board and any other materials you bring with you to illustrate your experiment.
  • We’ll have awards for the top three projects in PreK-2nd and in 3rd-5th.
  • Families can visit the Science Fair on March 11^th, 2025 during the Open House and Multicultural night. Awards will be available that day.
  • Project pickup will be at the end of Multicultural Night or until the end of the day on March12th. Projects that are not picked up will be recycle on March 13^th.

RULES

1. Think safety first before you start. Make sure you have recruited your adult to help you. All experiments should be supervised by an adult! If there are dangerous aspects of your experiment, please have an adult help you or have them do the dangerous parts.
2. Any project that breaks district policy, and/or local, state or federal laws are not permitted.
3. Use safety on the internet! Never write to anyone without an adult knowing about it. Be sure to let an adult know about what websites you will be visiting or have them help you search.
4. Projects involving mold, bacteria, or petri dish experiments are not allowed to bring on campus, but pictures can be displayed.

How to Do a Science Fair Project

1. Come up with a question that you’d like to answer through an experiment. Think about things in your environment and daily life that you’re curious about and go from there.
2. Research your topic.
3. Come up with a hypothesis (a good guess, based on your research, as to what the answer to your question is.)
4. Run an experiment to see if your hypothesis is correct. Make sure you follow a clear method.
5. Collect and look at the data (the results of your experiment.)
6. Write a conclusion to your question: what happened when you ran your experiment? Was your hypothesis correct?