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Teacher’s Guide to Science Fair Projects Review by Kemi Quinn
Madeline D Binder, M.S.Ed.M-ZAN Solutions Inc.
1-800-296-3650
Evanston, IL
https://www.super-science-fair-projects.com/
I really wanted our small Homeschool Group to put together a science fair and was looking for useful resources to help us plan. One of them was the Teacher’s Guide to Science Fair Projects. I thought this would be a great resource to turn to for helping me organize and set up this undertaking.
Teacher’s Guide to Science Fair Projects is a three hundred- and eighty-page digital eBook to help a teacher or facilitator put on a Science Fair for 5th through 12th-grade students. It sells regularly for $19.95 and contains thirty-two Lesson Plans along with a Teacher’s Appendix, Teacher Information Pages, Printables for Parents, a How-To for the book, a Bonus section on Building Your Student’s Confidence, Student’s Appendix, The Scientific Method, and Student Information Pages.
The Teacher’s Guide to Science Fair Projectslessons walks students (with the guidance of the teacher) through the process of finding something to research, how to conduct your research, design your experiment, write the hypothesis, record data, and pull it all together in time for a science fair.
There are no actual science experiments in this eBook but links to several resources to help the teacher and students along each step of the way, and it hasforms to keep track of it all.
The Teacher’s Guide to Science Fair Projects eBook is formulated to be used by a teacher working with several students that may be divided into groups. A homeschooling parent may be able to use this resource with their family. Although the different ages of children may mean that one student would do the bulk of the work. One student may become overwhelmed by this. I recommend this for a group of children.
There is plenty of information in the Teacher’s Guide to Science Fair Projects. Keep in mind this resource is meant to cover the space of a school year and be used by a teacher for several students.
Since there are thirty-two lessons working through them would obviously need to start at the beginning of the school year. I have a habit of jumping right to the lessons to see how they flow. The lessons in this resource begin simply by helping the students define what is a Science Fair Project and what is the difference between an Engineering Science Fair Project and a Science Fair Project. The students work together and are given small bits of homework to go along with the lesson.
While I think this resource might be a little much for a homeschool family I am checking into this resource as a possibility for our Homeschool Co-Op. This eBook would work well for a classroom or a Homeschool co-op where several children are able to contribute equally to the project and work together.
-Product review by Kemi Quinn, The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine, LLC, April 2019
