Spring Agriscience Fair

The Onalaska Agriscience Fair will be in its 10th year this year. We are very excited to have a Science Fair for students to expand their minds and investigate some part of science that they are passionate about. This also allows the community to catch a glimpse at the science that is going on at Onalaska High School and Middle School.

Students who are enrolled in Ag Biology will use this as a part of the National Association of Agricultural Education requirement for a Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) Project.

What areas of Science can the Student's Projects fall under?

  • Plant Systems

  • Animal Systems

  • Food Science

  • Environmental Science

  • Social Science

Below, you will find all of the parameters of the project. You will find what the students are expected to compose for the project and what the guidelines are for the project.

Supervised Agricultural Experience- Ag Biology

An SAE project is required of all student in Ag Education classrooms to do Nationwide. It is one of the three circles of Agriculture Education where you get to apply knowledge from class outside of the classroom. Each student in this class is required to do one as part of their grade. As Ag biology students, we will have you focus on the Research/Science Project. This year we will have all Ag Biology Students do a Science Fair Project that can be categorized into one of the following six areas:

Environmental Service Systems

Natural Resource Systems

Food Product and Processing Systems

Plant Systems

Animal Systems

Social Systems

This project needs to be done mostly outside of classroom time. There will be times when you work on component of your project in class, but the actual experiment will need to be done outside of the class period. There will be periodic project checks. Make sure that your project is a high school level project. Projects need to be to grade level standard and reflect topics covered within the biology area. This project MUST be testing a hypothesis, not demonstrating a phenomena found in nature- No volcanoes, not citrus-run batteries (unless you're testing the level of citric acid and its affect on said batteries), etc.

You will need to include the following in your project:

Hypothesis

Experimental Plan

Materials and Methods

Results

Conclusion and Discussion

You will also need to have the following:

Project Planning Sheet

Letter of Intent

Logbook

Written Report

References

Tri-Fold

Presentation


Wednesday, March 10th will be the Onalaska School District AgriScience Fair from 6-8 pm. Here, you will present your tri-fold as well as your project to the community, but most importantly the judges. There will be ribbons given and there will be a Winner in each category as well as an overall Science Fair Champion. All Ag Biology Students are REQUIRED to do this project and attend the Science Fair. Make sure you parents are aware of this ahead of time.

This Project will be worth over 1,000 points in the gradebook total. If you do not do this project, you will fail Ag Biology Semester 2.