Science Fair Presentations

My example board that is displayed in the classroom

We have 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 days before students' science fair boards are due!  Yikes!  Are you guys ready?

     Once students turn in their boards they don’t just get to forget about all their hard work they did on their experiments.  To share their findings, we are going to do presentations about the experiments in class.  We will be taking a week to do these presentations.  Our classroom presentations prepare students for higher education and their future careers.  New information is presented to peers and colleagues in various forms of formal presentations.  I want to prepare my students to succeed in life.

     If you check the rubric attached to the science fair packet that was sent home in December you will see that a portion of their grade for the science fair is the presentation of their experiment.  Please have your child practice presenting their information at home to get the comfortable with talking about it in front of people.

      Students are expected to talk about the following things in their presentations:

• The question they tested
• State their hypothesis
• List the materials they used
• Explain the steps they took to test their hypothesis
• Discuss their data (results)
• State their conclusion:

o   Restate their hypothesis

o   State if their hypothesis was correct or not

o   Explain why their hypothesis was correct or not by REFERENCING THEIR GRAPH

o   Describe what they would do different next time to improve their experiment

To help students have the best presentation possible here are some tips:

• Write out the above mentioned things on a piece of paper or note cards
• Practice talking loud enough to be heard in the back of the room
• While practicing face AWAY from the board
• Encourage them to memorize the above mentioned things so they don’t have to keep looking at their board

A good speaker has some of the following qualities: 

• knows what they are talking about 
• always faces the audience
• speaks loud enough to be heard by the person farthest from them 
• doesn't have a lot of pauses or say "Umm" 

Again these are great skills for the students to know!  Thank you again for the support at home!