Chico Science Fair Foundation

Week # (Monday Date)

Check When Completed

Week1 (Jan 27)

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Choose a topic that you are interested in doing (one that is not too hard, nor too easy).

Week 2 (Feb 3)

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Application/Registration available on-line (Due by March 15, 2013).

Week 3 (Feb10)

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Once you have received approval from your teacher, you can begin work on your project. Science Experiment Worksheet would be helpful.

Weeks 3 thru 6

(Feb 10 - Mar 9)

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• Organize everything you plan to do.
• Write out your procedure.
• If you are doing an experiment, make a guess (hypothesis) about what you think will happen.
• Do background information research
• Gather your materials.
• Perform your experiment. (Probably several times to be sure you have good results).
• Record your observations.
• What did you learn or find out by doing this experiment?
• See if your original hypothosis was correct.

Week 7 (Mar 10)

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Begin work on your display. Present the information you collected in easy-to-read graphs or tables. If you did an experiment, reserve special areas of your display for your Problem,Rresearch/Background Information, Hypothesis, Procedure, Results and Conclusion. If you plan to use photographs, allow enough time to have them printed.

Deadline for Applications On-Line.

Continue working on project.Make a written report to include with your display (optional).

March 18 - 22

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Spring Break for Schools

Week 8 (Mar 18)

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Continue working on project.

Week 9 (Mar 25)

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Bring your project to Fairgrounds between 12 noon and 6pm on Monday March 25, 2013.

Week 9 (Mar 29)

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Pick up project at Fairgrounds, between 8 am and 10 am on Friday March 29, 2013