Chair: Ivy Arak

• A Kinder Science Fair (Guidance on how to come up with a question and answer it, an overview of process skills for younger kids)
• Answering Your Own Questions (Helping students classify, generate, and answer questions based on their own interests or common materials
• Engineering Encounters (Using every day things - like cooking - to come up with ideas on how to generate an engineering design problem)
• Engineering Encounters (Using Fairy Tales and books to come up with a question to investigate)
• NSTA Position Statement on Science
• Outstanding Science Trade Books
• Investigable Questions (Taking the questions children ask us every day and transforming them into investigations)
• School Maker Faires (Blending Next Generation Science Standards goals with the concepts of the Maker Movement)

• Understanding New Science Standards (Grades K-2) | En Espanol
• Understanding New Science Standards (Grades 3-5) | En Espanol
• Understanding New Science Standards (Grades 6-8) | En Espanol

• Integrates almost every skill children have been taught.  A science fair project can involve reading, logical thinking, writing, grammar and spelling, math, statistics and data analysis, computer science, and graphic arts, as well as scientific methodology.
• Develops organizational, social and presentation skills
• Offers practice in public speaking, and how to explain their work to others 
• Engages students in scientific investigation beyond class work
• Heightens student interest in science and allows for the exploration of personal interest areas
• Fosters the development of students’ sense of personal capabilities and qualities, confidence and competence
• Instills an appreciation for the relevance of science in daily life and promotes a spirit of scientific inquiry
• Provides an opportunity to recognize and commend peer accomplishments
• Applies hands-on, minds-on science learning in a real world problem solving context
• Encourages independence and accountability, and develops the ability to handle mistakes and setbacks
• Enhances science process skills - Predict & hypothesize, Identify and control variables, Use scientific tools, Observe, Analyze data, Infer, Communicate