Grades 3-6: I hope your planning is going well! Please check in with your science teacher about your ideas before moving forward with your project. Check out the following slide show about how to plan an experiment to go with your Testable Question.

Your science fair project will show how you used the Scientific Method to solve a problem or answer a question.

Check out this video summarizing the steps scientists use to solve problems:

As you think of ideas for your science fair project, look for things happening in the world around you that make you ask questions. A scientific question is one that can be tested!

A great place to find some testable questions is at this website:

Science Fair Central – Investigation Starters

HOMEWORK: Email your project idea or testable question to your science teacher by Fri. 3/20.

Science Inquiry Fair

Grades 3-6 will focus on using the Scientific Method to answer question and solve everyday problems.

The Scientific Method involves:

1. Making observations and asking a testable question.
2. Forming a Hypothesis, or educated guess about the problem.
3. Creating a fair test to collect data about the problem.
4. Analyzing data and looking for patterns.
5. Drawing conclusions about the problem, and asking more questions!

Please use the planning guide to organize your work as you complete the project. The completed project should be structured like this:

If possible, please include the actual results of your experiments, or photographs to show what you did.

The judging criteria will look like this: