The Science Fair Podcast
I'm exploring ways to make science fair a meaningful experience for students and teachers. I do this by talking about how science fair plays out in my seventh grade classroom. I discuss what I do each day and the impact it has on my students. If you're a teacher who struggles with science fair every year and want to make it work for you and your students, this is the podcast for you.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 11 minutes
- Episodes
- 15
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2015
Episode 15: Beyond the Classroom Science Fair
Listen to this episode to hear how I chose the “winners” of my science fair. Hear how we transformed their “cloud-based” presentations into traditional projects that could go on t…
Episode 14: Science Fair Presentation Day
In this episode I share how I set up my Science Fair presentation day. I explain how students were organized to give their presentations and how I assessed them. I also refle…
Episode 13: Preparing Science Fair Presentations
On today’s podcast I talk about preparing students for Science Fair day. It will include how I prepare students for their oral and visual presentations, the technology we use t…
Episode 12: Science and Literacy – Writing Conclusions and Abstracts for Science Fair
This is where the rubber meets the road. Can students determine the validity of their hypotheses? Listen to hear how I coach students in scientific thinking AND writing as they wri…
Episode 11: Teaching Math in Science
Science Fair is an excellent opportunity to build math skills into your Science class. In this episode, I detail how I guided students in organizing their data into presentable for…
Episode 10: Analyzing Science Fair Data with Students, part 2
In this episode I continue to share my experiences with students in organizing and graphing their data. I discuss the methods for taking all their data and displaying it in a single…
Episode 9: Analyzing Science Fair Data with Students, part 1
Analyzing data always presents challenges for students. In this episode, I discuss how I approached data analysis with my students. Hear about the hangups we ran into and how the …
Episode 8: Organizing Science Fair Data with Students
In Episode 8, I discuss how students concluded their data gathering by organizing their data into a meaningful data table. We also brainstormed ways to use math to help “summarize”…
Science Fair Podcast Episode #6: Making an Observation Protocol for Science Fair
Science Fair Podcast Episode #5: Setting Up Science Fair Experiments
In episode 5, I describe how my students put their procedures into action. I detail how students self pace the activity and how I offer tailored support. I also discuss how I have my students refle…
Science Fair Podcast Episode #4: Writing Experimental Procedures
Want to know why I do Science Fair in this unusual way? I start this episode with a brief outline of how I do science fair and why. Then I go into how I lead students in writing procedures to test …
Science Fair Podcast Episode #3: Hypotheses
In this episode, students return to science class with background research in hand. They use this research to generate hypotheses. I discuss the way students debate predictions and use their resear…
Science Fair Podcast Episode #2: Questions & Variables
In episode 2 I discuss how students choose an independent variable for their project, and how to include it in a testable question. For this lesson students also learned to differential independent…
Science Fair Podcast Episode #1: Introducing Science Fair
If you’ve been struggling to make Science Fair a meaningful experience for your students and you, join in the conversation on the Science Fair Podcast.
In this first episode, I talk about how I intro…