BISHOP SCIENCE NIGHT

Students of all grades can conduct AT HOME experiments or research a question that sparks their curiosity and present their results on Science Night! 

Posters can be submitted by individual students or groups of students working as a team.

To submit your experiment, click here: Science Night Student Poster Sign-Up

Sign up until Monday, April 14th. 

Blank poster boards are available in the Bishop office.

Need Some Ideas?

What is up with the neighborhood turkeys?  Where do they sleep at night, what do they eat and why are they in our neighborhood?

Create a neighborhood nature guide.  We have turkeys, coyotes, squirrels (grey and black--what's the difference between the two?), chipmunks and many kinds of birds.  Take pictures or do an internet search.

Look for patterns in the sky.  Map the constellations over time.  Look for where they are relative to a stationary landmark like your neighbor's house or a light pole.  How do they move over the night (look every hour, from after dark until 9 or 10 PM).  You can also chart the location of the moon over several weeks.

Want to learn about kitchen chemistry?  Bake some bread to learn about respiration.  The yeast in the bread is alive and it converts the sugars in the dough, making the gas bubbles that help the bread rise.  Make bread with different quantities of yeast or vary the amount of sugar.  What happens?

Make any recipe into a scientific investigation by changing just one thing and observing what happens.  Bake a batch of cookies with eggs then make the same recipe substituting bananas for the eggs.  How are they different?  How are they the same?  What happens if you leave out the baking soda?  What does baking soda do in the recipe?

What lessons have you learned from the Bishop Garden?  How did rubbing kale leaves with lemon juice make them softer?

Explore grocery store botany.  Which parts of the plant are we eating when we eat lettuce?  Celery?  Broccoli?

Where does water go when it rains?  Go for a walk in the rain and watch how it flows on the ground.  Draw a map of the neighborhood showing places where rain flows and collects.