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Title: Open Your Activities


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Gavilan Peak School
Standards Based Science Fair
An A Program
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Overview
  • Inquiry
  • Standards Based Science Fair

3
  • If a single word had to be chosen to describe the
    goals of science education during the 30-year
    period that began in the late 1950s, it would
    have to be inquiry
  • (DeBoer, 1991, p. 206)

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Inquiry is NOT equivalent to
  • Problem solving
  • Critical thinking
  • Hands-on learning
  • (But it is associated with these)

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Ways of Thinking Acting Associated with Inquiry
  • Asking questions
  • Planning and conducting investigations
  • Using appropriate tools and techniques to gather
    data
  • Critical thinking about relationships between
    evidence and explanation
  • Constructing and analyzing alternative
    explanations
  • Communicating results/arguments

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Defining Inquiry
  • Exploratorium Institute for Inquiry (1996)
    developed the following definition Inquiry is
    an approach to learning that involves a process
    of exploring the natural or material world, that
    leads to asking questions and making discoveries
    in the search for new understandings.

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Levels of Inquiry Learning (Herron, 1971)
  • 0. CONFIRMATION activity to confirm a concept
    with results known in advance.
  • 1. STRUCTURED INQUIRY activity to discover a
    concept with a prescribed procedure.
  • Recipe Style Lab
  • FOSS kits
  • 2. GUIDED INQUIRY students investigate a
    teacher-presented question using student-selected
    procedures.
  • 3. OPEN INQUIRY students choose problems,
    design and conduct investigation

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Levels of Inquiry Learning
X boxes mean it was given to the student.
0. CONFIRMATION 1. STRUCTURED INQUIRY 2. GUIDED
INQUIRY 3. OPEN INQUIRY
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A focus on inquiry develops
  • ALL of the Science process skills
  • Understanding of the Nature of Science
  • Creativity and Critical Thinking
  • Planning skills
  • Science Content

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The biggest problem is choosing a problem.
  • Most challenging and creative aspect of science
  • Choosing a problem that can be solved
  • The formulation of a problem is often more
    essential than its solution.
  • --Albert Einstein

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Which are good problems for a science fair?
  • Why is the sky blue?
  • What food do mealworms like best?
  • Can I make a filter to clean water?
  • How long will a candle burn before it goes out?
  • How does the mass of a car influence its speed
    down a pine wood derby track?

12
Goal Progress to Open Inquity
  • What a child can do with assistance today, they
    can do on their own tomorrow.
  • Vygotsky
  • Parents as allies

13
The Standards Based Science Fair
  • 1st time in the world Gavilan Peak School May
    2004

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Problems of Traditional Fairs
  • Judging
  • Takes a lot of judges
  • Weak inter-rater reliability
  • Can be perceived as not fair
  • K-8 setting students dont explain their projects
    to judges and answer questions
  • Little or no judges feedback
  • Students are compared to students
  • A child does a great project but another does a
    little better. So first child does not get the
    award
  • There are only a few winners
  • Losing is discouraging
  • Parents and mentors focus on producing a winning
    project and push it too far beyond student
    centered.

15
The Standards Based Science Fair
  • Students are not compared to each other but to
    the AZ state inquiry standards
  • Many legitimate winners
  • It puts the fair back into science fairs
  • Students get opportunities to present their
    projects
  • Specific feedback given to the students

16
The GPS Standards-Based Science Fair
  • Teachers hold mini Science Fairs in their
    classrooms
  • Teachers evaluate all of their class projects
    using the rubrics
  • Data collected and analyzed
  • Teachers arrange to host and visit another class
  • Ribbons will be provided
  • Pure Standards Based
  • No Best in Class Award
  • No Student Choice Awards

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Interdisciplinary
  • Can this project be used to develop and assess
    written and spoken language?
  • Can this project be used to develop and assess
    math abilities?
  • Can art teachers provide instruction on how to
    create attractive and effective display boards?

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Timetable
  • Parents Night November 15, 2005
  • Problem Statement (question) due
  • Around the first week of December
  • Suggestions for Project Due Date
  • February 13 to 17th
  • Science Day February 21, 2006
  • Sharing between classrooms
  • Parents Viewing
  • Lots of great science events happening

21
Meeting the Standards
  • Different Rubrics
  • Kindergarten
  • Grades 1-3
  • Grades 4-6
  • Grades 7-8

22
GPS SBSF WWW Site
  • www.west.asu.edu/rillero/gps
  • All the rubrics
  • Science Fair resources that promote inquiry

23
For more information
  • Shannon Harshman
  • 623-445-7468
  • Peter Rillero
  • Rillero_at_asu.edu
  • 623-551-1889
  • Lunch with grade level team

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Self-expression is the prominent necessity of
human nature.
  • William Winter
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