Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Science Fair Projects

The 4th grade will be participating in the first annual Science Fair at the school. It will be held the week before Christmas break. The students in our class have been put into teams and have had projects assigned. We decided that this would be a good way to encourage teamwork and also learn how to approach all the work that is needed in a scheduled manner to complete a science fair project.

The teams are as follows:

Team A
VIDEO GAME ADVANTAGE: What effect does playing video games have on reaction time?
Gabby Padilla
Gabe Boda
Noah Bergeron

Team B
UP ON THE ROOFTOP: What is the effect of the color of roofing on a house's temperature?
Annabelle Marcotte
Brianna Sturgis
John Fosset
Blake Horton

Team C
FAMILY FINGERPRINTS: What effect does heredity have on fingerprint characteristics?
Abby LeBlanc
Hanna Pullen
Noah Williamson

We will start this adventure tomorrow and with your support at home and the class time we shall devote these teams are going to do a GREAT JOB and learn A LOT!! I am encouraging the team members to be in contact with each other outside of school when needed if questions arise and if possible to get together as a group.

Each team has a project sheet and we will start discussing the 6 steps to the scientific method and how their project will be set up to show all the steps.

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