Posted by: hannaheath on 04/27/2008 07:29 PM
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23rd Annual Calaveras County Science Fair~By Hanna Heath
Angels Camp, CA....The 23rd Annual Calaveras County Science Fair went on this weekend at the Calaveras County Board of Education Office. Students who entered their project participated in interviews for the judging of their experiment. Projects were judged in two categories, experiments and displays. The Calaveras County School Science Fair provides opportunities for all students in grades 4-12 to explore areas of interest and then creatively exhibit them......
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Some of the experiment titles include: does gender affect lung capacity, CO2 Unleashed, Water Filter, What container keeps fresh the longest, and the dark and light plant project. We spoke with Gabby Reed who is the creater of the dark and light plant project who is in the 5th grade at Christian Family Learning Center. She recently entered her project at her school science fair and placed 2nd and then was asked to enter her project in the county science fair.
"I had two experiments, plant A that I placed in sunlight without water and it died and plant B with no sunlight and water and it lived," shared Gabby. "I enjoyed being creative and putting together my demonstration board."
Below are the areas of judging for the display section:
1. CLARITY AND SKILL (25)
a. Neat? Clean? Workmanship - durability? 0-5
b. Easy to understand? Sequenced work? 0-5
c. Balanced presentation of material? Simply presented? 0-5
d. Good spelling, punctuation, sentence structure, grammar? 0-5
e. Tables and graphs clear? 0-5
2. COMPLEXITY/ DEGREE OF PROJECT (30)
a. Complete concept presented? 0-5
b. Depth of research? 0-10
c. Higher Level thinking skills presented? 0-5
d. Data Tables/Graphs (labeled, readable, multiple trials?) 0-10
3. THOROUGHNESS (15)
a. Lab notebook clean, organized, table of contents? 0-5
b. Would the exhibit benefit from photos, models, art? 0-5
c. Relates to science? Scientific methods? 0-5
4. CREATIVE ABILITY (20)
a. Does the exhibit sell the idea? (Colorful, attractive, neat?) 0-5
b. Is your first impression of the exhibit:
excellent, good, other? 0-5
c. Is it original? 0-5
d. Ingenious use of materials? 0-5
5. ORAL INTERVIEW (10) 0-10
Below are the judging in the area of experiment:
1. SCIENTIFIC METHOD (50)
a. Question: Is it specific and well-phrased? 0-5
b. Hypothesis: Is it reasonable and worthy of research? 0-5
c. Research: Was it researched? Multiple sources?
Bibliography? 0-10
d. Experiment: Is there a lab notebook? Are the results
measured? Is there a control? A variable? Multiple
trials? List of materials? 0-10
e. Results and Analysis: Results indicate a conclusion?
Results graphed? Is there statistical analysis? Did new
questions arise? Conclusions supported by data? 0-10
f. Write-up: Legible? Clear? Clean? Bound? 0-10
2. CREATIVE ABILITY (10)
Original in approach/handling? 0-10
3. THOROUGHNESS (10)
Is the idea developed? Knowledge of topic displayed? 0-10
4. SKILL, CLARITY AND WORKMANSHIP (15)
Is it clear to an average viewer? Is the workmanship good? 0-15
5. DRAMATIC VALUE (5)
Is the display attractive and graphic? Does it attract your
attention and reward you for your time? 0-5
6. ORAL INTERVIEW (10) 0-10
Plaques were presented to the first, second and third place winners
(individual or group projects) at each grade level. All participants received a Participation Ribbon. The most outstanding project of the Science Fair received the Grand Prize award. Also, The California Native Plant Society gave a special award and a gift for the most outstanding project dealing with plants.
Adam Shartle was the 2008 Calaveras County Science Fair Winner. Congratulations Adam!
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