How to use Scienteer: Scienteer is the online program we use to approve science fair projects. This worksheet will help you guide your students through the process.
How to Scienteer Videos: these videos walk you through step by step in the Scienteer process
ISEF Safety Rules (all levels of Science Fair are aligned to ISEF standards)
Houston Science Fair Scientific Notebook Rubric: the scientific notebook is part of the judges rubric for place awards, and at the Houston fair students also have the opportunity to earn awards based solely on their journals.
Supporting Your Students
YES Prep Science Fair Google Drive: in this drive, you can find a variety of useful activities & resources to choose from if you would like to design your own lesson plans.
teachengineering.org: discover a variety of engineering based lessons, activities, maker challenges, and big data labs. These lessons have been developed and tested by teachers and cover a wide variety of topics and grade levels.
biobuilder.org: really awesome bioengineering lessons/activities to do with your students.
Supporting SPED & ELL Students: go to this link in order to view an online powerpoint explaining the different ways to support SPED & ELL students in science fair. Includes links to helpful resources.
Intro to Programming Lessons: curriculum designed to help students learn the basics of programming. Use this with your students who are really invested in doing a computer science based project.
Big Data Lessons: curriculum designed to help students learn how to find trends in large data sets. Use this with your students who are really invested in problems that require analyzing large sets of data that have already been collected.
Nobel Prize Education: this website has a bunch of cool information on Nobel Prize winners as well as simple games students can play to help them understand more complex scientific concepts.