Class Presentation of Science Fair Project

Our in-class science fair presentation will start on Wednesday March 3, 2010.  The rubric that you will be graded on is:

Presentation of Science Fair Project Rubric

Criteria Excellent Needs improvement

A.  Content (30 points)

1.  Thoroughness*     10  9  8  7  6  5  4  3  2  1 

2.  Accuracy*           10  9  8  7  6  5  4  3  2  1

3.  Clarity*              10  9  8  7  6  5  4  3  2  1

B.  Voice Modulation (10 points)

Varies voice in an  interesting manner  10  9  8  7  6  5  4  3  2  1

C.  Posterboard (30 points)

1.  Contains all required information   10  9  8  7  6  5  4  3  2  1

2.  Execution                            10  9  8  7  6  5  4  3  2  1

3.  Creativity                            10  9  8  7  6  5  4  3  2  1

Points for Presentation:      ______/40  = _______

Points for Posterboard:        ______/50 = _______

* Presentation included the following (20 points):

•Background Information About Your Research

•Purpose of Research

•Hypothesis Stated

•Description of Experimental Design

•Results and Conclusions

•Discuss any problems you encountered

•Ideas for further study

An example Powerpoint template will be posted on Snapgrades.

2010 Carver Fair Participants

Congratulations to the following students who were invited to present their science fair projects at the Philadelphia George Washington Carver Science Fair on March 9th, 2010:

7th Grade

Amani Bey
Huidan Mei
Jieying Chen
Wayne Lee
Jacky Li
Timmothy Mak
Sandy Yu
Yingci Chen
Aaron Zheng
Sandy Tang
Talia Smith

8th Grade

Sydney Marchiano
Zhewei Wu
Lihang Lin
Cindy Li
Sierra Hall
Nicholas Collis
Xin Lin
Joseph Szarak
Weilin Li
Yiaming Liu

Assignments for Classwork 2/2/10 and 2/2/10

Classwork (Due at the end of class tomorrow)

Chapter Review Page 53 #'s 18 to 25. (hand draw your circle for 25)

In groups complete the new Study Island Assignment to prepare for the PSSA science test. Let me know who is in each group and

which login you used for each group so I can put your groups score into snapgrades.

Do the Framiliarize Learn and then Test sections on the website: http://quizlet.com/17094/pssa-prep-science-8th-gr-flash-cards/

THEN play the "Space Race" and "Scatter" and show me your best time.