1. Virtual Science Fair Celebrating Our Virtual Science Fair Projects
iLearn Elementary
Science Session 8

2. Focusing Questions
• How can students learn to make constructive comments and fairly judge one another's Science Fair Projects.
• How can students learn to utilize the discussion board of the wikispaces to post comments and provide feedback.

3. Instruction

4. Framing The Session In today's session we will focus on:
appropriate criteria to judge and make comments on another student’s project
to utilize wikispaces to make comments and provide feedback about other student's projects

5. Teaching
Remember...
Students need some kind of instrument to fairly judge a Science Fair Project

6. Teaching
What kind of instrument could we create for the students to use?

7. Teaching
Virtual Science Fair Project "Water Water everywhere, but is it fit to drink?"

8. Teaching Guidelines for judging a Science Fair Project may include:
checklist
rubric
point system

9. Guided Practice Now it is your turn to try it.
Go to

10. Guided Practice We will look at the following projects:
Which liquids evaporate faster?
Pollution Prevention at School
Photosynthesis and How Plants Grow

11. Guided Practice Extra Information for Judges:
“Photosynthesis and How Plants Grow”
The student needed adult help to come up with the hypothesis and the procedure
“Which Liquids Evaporate Faster?”
The student needed help coming up with the hypothesis

12. Work Time

13. Getting Started In prior sessions we have learned;
How to set up a wikispace account
How to add student’s usernames and password

14. Work Time We are now going to use that technology to:
Discuss the Virtual Science Fair Projects using the wikispaces site

15. Share

16. Share
What would you like to share about your postings on wikispaces?

17. Discuss:
How would posting comments to the wikispaces enhance a Virtual Science Fair?

18. For more information Office of Instructional Technology