Week # (Monday Date)

Check When Completed

  
     

Week1 (Jan 23)

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

Week 2 (Jan 30)

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Application for INDIVIDUAL or CLASS projects available on-line (Due by March 16, 2012). Paper form available from school office for GROUP projects ( 2, 3, 4..... students).

Week 3 (Feb 6)

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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 6- Feb 27)

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(Feb 17 and Feb. 20 - School Holidays).

  • 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 guess was correct.

Week 6 (Feb 27)

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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.
Week 7 (Mar 5)   Continue working on project.
Week 8 (Mar 12) _________

Deadline for Applications- Friday March 16 On-Line.

Continue working on project.

Make a written report to include with your display (optional).

March 19 - 23

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Vacation Break for Schools

March 26 - 30  

Continue working on project.

Make a written report to include with your display (optional).

Week 9 (April 2)

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Bring your project to Silver Dollar Fairgrounds - Commercial Building, between 12 noon and 6pm on Monday April 2, 2012

Week 9 (April 5))  

Thursday - Reception with Light Refreshments 4 - 6pm, Remove Projects 6 - 8 pm.

Week 9 (Apr 6)

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Pick up project at Fairground, between 8 am and 10 am on Friday April 6 if you have not picked up Thurs. Night (Note that Friday is a School Holiday)