Science Fair 

Here is a link to the science/engineering fair format 

Another link to the science fair timeline will be here in early September

Here is a link to BK library resources to help with science fair resources (If it asks for a password: knights)

In early September - Please join my Google classroom (code to follow soon) to get information on the 2025 science/engineering  fair. 

  Science Fair will be held here at Saint Joseph’s on a Friday, in December 2025 (TBD) The 6th and 8th graders will be doing a science/engineering fair project. Our science fair this year will have an engineering component along with an experimental component. Students in the 8th grade will be working with the engineering side, coming up with a project that looks at one aspect of physics (motion, speed, acceleration, force, light, sound etc) and develop a machine to perform a task, and then change a variable to make it better. Students will have to have 2 working models of their machine for presentation. 

Students in the 6th grade will be following the scientific method to isolate a variable and prove that the variable is responsible for a change in something. 6th graders will be able to choose from all science disciplines - Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Microbiology, Behavioral Science (humans only), Biochemistry, Geology, Horticulture, Zoology (Invertebrates only) Students should begin to research a topic in August to come up with something they would LIKE to investigate. 

Most of the work for these projects will be done at home and I will have a comprehensive time-line that the students will be following.  Grades for the science fair will come primarily from:

•  adherence to the time-line

•  final draft write-up of the project

• demonstration of project to peers at school and to judges. Engineering projects will need their prototypes here too.

Information on the science fair will be forth coming early in the school year. "Watch this space!"