Westbrook STEM Fair
January 6, 2020

WEEK 3 (11/18)
Students have 6 weeks left to design and complete their project.   
During Week 3, students should-
  • Pick a topic and ask a question, and record all notes in your project notebook.   
  • Research- After you have chosen a question, you need to research more about your topic. Write at least a paragraph about what you learned.  
  • Hypothesis- write a hypothesis that shares your reasoning from your research.  Use what you learned during your research to write your hypothesis. Use one of these sentence frames for your hypothesis.
*I predict _________________ because ______________________.
*I think that if we change _____________________________ then the____________ will ___________________________________ .
WEEK 2 (11/11)
Students have 7 weeks left to design and complete their project.   
During Week 2, students should-
  • Pick a topic and record all your notes in your project notebook.     
  • Ask a question that is testable and observable about the topic.  
  • Research- After you have chosen a question, you need to research more about your topic. Write at least a paragraph about what you learned.  
  • Teacher Approval Forms are due on December 9, 2019
WEEK 1 (11/4)
  • ​Pick a topic. Students can go to the USEF Website  to get ideas about great topics for the STEM Fair.   
  • Ask a question that is testable and observable about the topic.  
        How to write your question in a testable format:
  • Does changing _______ affect _______?
  • How does changing ________ affect _________?
  • If I change ________, will if affect ________?  
            * The blanks are called variables.  
  • Start your recording all your notes in your project notebook.
Teacher Approval Form- Students must turn in their Teacher Approval Form so their experiment can be approved by Mrs. Sellers by 12/12/18.