Beginning this year the 8th grade science students will prepare a Science Education Fair Project. This project differs from the regular Science Fair in that the students will NOT be preparing a project, experimenting, collecting data and communicating results. This project allows each student to choose a topic of interest and find the connections to the science community. Science plays vital roles in the development of inventions, determining laws in government, and medical discoveries among other important aspects of our lives.
The students will develop a research project, find the science involved in the topic and prepare a board for presentation at our Science Education Fair (CVMS). The students will be given time during the next few months to choose a topic, prepare materials, and gather research. The students however, WILL need to prepare their boards at home to bring to the fair. This Science Education Fair is an opportunity for the students to choose a topic of interest and follow through the history and research of how science influences our decisions across the globe. Communicating their projects will give the students a chance to showcase their learning at our fair. Use the following site for resources and research: Utah Online Library Below are some possible examples of Science Education Fair Topics: Addiction (causes and treatments) Safety Features of Modern Automobiles Alternative Energy Sources San Andreas Fault Alzheimer’s Disease San Francisco Earthquake 1906 Amazon River Great Barrier Reef, Australia Animal Camouflage Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe Animations (by computer) Northern Lights, Alaska Antibiotics Grand Canyon, U.S. Artificial Organs Paricutin, Mexico Attention Deficit Disorders Mount Everest, Nepal Bio-Fuels Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt (Engineering) Brain Research Great Wall of China (Engineering) Cancer Treatments Taj Mahal, India (Engineering) Challenger Explosion Space Flight Chernobyl Nuclear Accident Sputnick & Space Race Coral Reefs Staph Infections (Drug Resistance) Deep Sea Exploration Surgical Techniques Diamonds Tornadoes Diseases Tourette’s Syndrome Dust Storms Tsunami in Southeast Asia, 2004 Dyslexia U.S. National Park (Choose one) Electric Cars Water Resources Global Positioning Systems (GPS) Renewable Energy Sources Global Warming Major Rivers of the World Hurricane Katrina Modern Farming & Agriculture Hurricanes Mudslides Invention of Artificial Heart Multiple Personality Disorder Invention of Kevlar Newton’s Laws of Motion Invention of Lasers Planets (Choose One) Invention of MRI Plate Tectonics Invention of Pasteurization Rain Forest Invention of Penicillin Microwave Ovens Invention of Polio Vaccine Nuclear Power Plants Invention of Smallpox Vaccine Computers Invention of Telephone Airplanes Invention of X-Rays Welding Machines Invention of Microscope Incandescent Electric Lamp Invention of Internal Combustion Engine Anesthesia Invention of photography/photographs Compass Invention of Turbines (Water) Internet Invention of Washing Machine (Engineering) Invention of Eco Homes Invention of Solar Cells Invention of Alexander Graham Bell Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek Louis Pasteur Galileo Galilei James Clerk Maxwell (Radio) Isaac Newton Thomas Edison William Cooke & Sam Morse Charles Chamberland (Autoclave) Charles Goodyear Nikola Tesla Joseph & Louis Lumiere (1st Movie Projectors) James Russell (CD Players) Albert Einstein Niels Bohr Charles Darwin Aristotle Marie Curie Rosalind Franklin Stephen Hawking Rene Descartes Robert Hooke Carl Linnaeus Benjamin Franklin Thomas Edison Dmitri Mendeleev Sally Ride (Astronaut, Teacher, Physicist) Leonardo DaVinci Francis Cricke (Partner with Watson) Jean Piaget James Watson (Partner with Cricke) George Washington Carver Robert Hooke Edwin Hubble Jacques Cousteau Comments are closed.
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