Middle School Science Fair Help
For the past five years the former middle school science teacher stopped teaching and basically turned science class into social hour for the kids. He basically gave them used their laptops and then sit at his desk and won’t acknowledge the kids. After numerous complaints he was finally let go and I was brought in to help with the science fair. All the other middle school teachers have told me that in the past science fair has been a disaster content wise and behavior wise. The kids could not stay by the boards and would always mess around even knowing they would get points docked for not being away from their boards.
I would love ideas on systems or tasks the students could do to have them stay at their boards. Someone mentioned to have the kids collect questions and comments on a sheet and they have to receive x amount. But I’m not in love with it. I was also thinking of having a BINGO style sheet with things like “explain your hypothesis to 3 people.”
I would appreciate any help with this! Thank you so much