2. Common Core Literacy Standards Production and Distribution of Writing Research to Build and Present Knowledge Next Generation Science Standards Eight Science and Engineering Practices  Teachers should take the opportunity to incorporate Science and Engineering Fair projects into their curriculum.

4.  Internet Resources Internet Resources  Make a Timeline  Funding  Location  Education and Familiarization Science After School Science Class At Home

5.  Teachers should make time in instructional day/periods to discuss and teach the components of a quality science fair project

6.  Choosing a project/ The problem?  Writing a hypothesis  The journal  Research  The difference between an experiment and a demonstration  Collecting data/How to measure?  Replications  Reporting Results  Drawing conclusions

7.  Students need to understand the necessity of conducting safe experiments  Rules and Regulations: ◦ RIMS Science and Engineering Fair

8.  Live Vertebrate Animals  Human Subjects  Tissue Samples

9.  Talk to parents on how to help their students produce a quality project  Recruit parent volunteers  Help with ceremony & awards

10.  Teachers  Parents  Community members  Scientists  Can get a parent chairperson to recruit judges

11. Awards Ceremony  Choose and book location  Programs  Awards- Ribbons, trophies, certificates or medallions  Invited quests  Refreshments

12. http://412science.rusd.k12.ca.us/science_fair.htm

13. Questions and Answers

14. Dale Moore Riverside Unified School District Instructional Services Specialists, Science (951) 788-7135 (Ext. 55136) dmoore@rusd.k12.ca.us