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The Science Fair Podcast
by sciencenugget.com
I'm exploring ways to make science fair a meaningful experience for students and teachers. I do this by talking about how science fair plays out in my seventh grade classroom. I discuss what I do each day and the impact it has on my students. If you're a teacher who struggles with science fair every year and want to make it work for you and your students, this is the podcast for you.
Episodes
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Episode 15: Beyond the Classroom Science Fair
Listen in iTunes Listen to this episode to hear how I chose the “winners” of my science fair. Hear how we transformed their “cloud-based” presentations into traditional projects that could go on to compete at the school-wide and city-wide Science Fair. Also learn how I used this as an opportunity...
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Episode 14: Science Fair Presentation Day
Listen in iTunes In this episode I share how I set up my Science Fair presentation day. I explain how students were organized to give their presentations and how I assessed them. I also reflect on how the presentations went and the ups and downs of the results. Finally, I describe how I […]
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Episode 13: Preparing Science Fair Presentations
Listen in iTunes On today’s podcast I talk about preparing students for Science Fair day. It will include how I prepare students for their oral and visual presentations, the technology we use to do it, and how our Science Fair day is different than a tradition science fair. Hear about using…
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Episode 12: Science and Literacy – Writing Conclusions and Abstracts for Science Fair
Listen in iTunes This is where the rubber meets the road. Can students determine the validity of their hypotheses? Listen to hear how I coach students in scientific thinking AND writing as they write up their conclusions to their Science Fair projects. Also hear how I guide my students to writing...
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Episode 11: Teaching Math in Science
Listen in iTunes Science Fair is an excellent opportunity to build math skills into your Science class. In this episode, I detail how I guided students in organizing their data into presentable form. I used tutorial videos to help students develop 21st century cloud based data analysis skills....
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Episode 10: Analyzing Science Fair Data with Students, part 2
Listen in iTunes In this episode I continue to share my experiences with students in organizing and graphing their data. I discuss the methods for taking all their data and displaying it in a single table. In addition, I outline how students gain expertise on graph types and decide what type of...
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Episode 9: Analyzing Science Fair Data with Students, part 1
Listen in iTunes Analyzing data always presents challenges for students. In this episode, I discuss how I approached data analysis with my students. Hear about the hangups we ran into and how the activity unfolded in my classroom.
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Episode 8: Organizing Science Fair Data with Students
Listen in iTunes In Episode 8, I discuss how students concluded their data gathering by organizing their data into a meaningful data table. We also brainstormed ways to use math to help “summarize” the data. Finally, students researched types of graphs in order to choose one that best represented...
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Episode 7: Science Fair Goes to Humanities – Working With Colleagues, part 1
How Our Humanities Teacher Helped Make Science Fair Rock! The awesome Lillie Marshal, 7th grade Humanities teacher joins for this episode of the podcast. She shares how she welcomed Science Fair into her classroom and curriculum and how she used it to teach research concepts. Listen to hear how…
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Science Fair Podcast Episode #6: Making an Observation Protocol for Science Fair
In Episode six, I reveal how students went about crating an observation protocol. They know that they are trying to find the affect their trash item has on the growth of plants. But what do they mean by growth? There are many ways in which a plant grows. I’ll explain how I engaged students to […]
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Science Fair Podcast Episode #5: Setting Up Science Fair Experiments
In episode 5, I describe how my students put their procedures into action. I detail how students self pace the activity and how I offer tailored support. I also discuss how I have my students reflect on the process to revise their experimental procedures. Below are links to the web based…
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Science Fair Podcast Episode #4: Writing Experimental Procedures
Want to know why I do Science Fair in this unusual way? I start this episode with a brief outline of how I do science fair and why. Then I go into how I lead students in writing procedures to test their hypotheses.
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Science Fair Podcast Episode #3: Hypotheses
In this episode, students return to science class with background research in hand. They use this research to generate hypotheses. I discuss the way students debate predictions and use their research to back up their ideas. I also explain the hypothesis format I use and how it helps students...
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Science Fair Podcast Episode #2: Questions & Variables
In episode 2 I discuss how students choose an independent variable for their project, and how to include it in a testable question. For this lesson students also learned to differential independent and dependent variables. In addition, I elaborate on how I collaborated with my Humanities teacher…
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Science Fair Podcast Episode #1: Introducing Science Fair
If you’ve been struggling to make Science Fair a meaningful experience for your students and you, join in the conversation on the Science Fair Podcast. In this first episode, I talk about how I introduce the science fair concept to my seventh grade students. The whole podcast is recorded on my...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
I'm exploring ways to make science fair a meaningful experience for students and teachers. I do this by talking about how science fair plays out in my seventh grade classroom. I discuss what I do each day and the impact it has on my students. If you're a teacher who struggles with science fair every year and want to make it work for you and your students, this is the podcast for you.
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sciencenugget.com
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I'm exploring ways to make science fair a meaningful experience for students and teachers. I do this by talking about how science fair plays out in my seventh grade classroom. I discuss what I do each day and the impact it has on my students. If you're a teacher who struggles with science fair...
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