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by Adam Shopis (Author)
Frustrated K-12 science teachers look no further"Why Science Fair Sucks" provides a simple plan for turning Science Fair from fiasco to triumph
Science Fair takes hours upon hours of your time and frustrates students to no end. Yet we do it every year. This book explains why Science Fair so often fails and offers detailed resources to make Science Fair succeed in your classroom.
The book lays out a full Science Fair unit plan broken down into a series of lesson outlines. It includes teaching ideas and examples to bring Science Fair to life for you and your students. In addition, there are student directions, worksheets, rubrics and links to editable handouts.
Discover how to transform your Science Fair into a genuine learning experience in your classroom. Teachers trying to make Science Fair work, department heads and administrators looking to start a Science Fair, this book is for you. Stop wasting valuable class time and start investing in real science teaching. Science Fair doesn't have to suck!
This Book Contains:- Lesson outlines for a complete Science Fair curriculum
- Assignment sheets for students
- Rubrics for assessment
- Links to inexpensive materials for experiments
- Links to downloadable/editable versions of all classroom resources
Author Biography
I am a father, surfer, and teacher of 7th graders. I have been teaching in an urban public school in Boston for the past 13 years. I got my start in education teaching informal science at a museum in Connecticut. After that I acquired my teaching license in Massachusetts where I have lived ever since. In my career I've taught 4th-7th grade science in regular, inclusion, and advanced work classes. I currently teach general science to 140 seventh graders each year. I strive to make my students as excited about the natural world as I am. I feel that a solid science education is their ticket to understanding their world and carving out a sustainable place in it for themselves. I am also a part time writer of books. I have written a book about science fair and how it has evolved in my classroom. I've also written fiction which I plan to self publish in the near future. When I'm not working, writing, or playing with my kids, I can be found on my longboard in a lineup somewhere, scouting the horizon for the next set.
