SCIENCE

YOUNG SCIENTIST WEEK

• Young Scientist Week March 5 - March 9, 2007
• Family Science Night Wednesday, March 7th, 2007 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM
• Egg Drop Contest Wednesday, March 7th, 2007, 11:30 AM to 12:50 PM

Bennett Elementary's Young Scientist Week is much more than a science fair - it is a week-long celebration of the scientist in every child! The Bennett PTSA works to fund, develop, and staff the activities leading up to and during this week. Your support helps every student at Bennett.
Any Bennett student can enter a science project for Young Scientist Week. Science workshops will be offered to help get kids started (look for time and date announcements in the Friday Flyer). Remember, you can really have a lot of fun doing your project! Using an inquiry-based process, you will make interesting discoveries and you will improve your skills in reading, writing, researching, drawing, and higher level thinking at the same time! You can work alone or with another Bennett student. All students who complete a project for Young Scientist Week will receive a very cool science medal.

We aim for 100% participation by Bennett students. If students need help getting started, plan for them to attend one of the Science Workshops (see dates below for this year). Students can also print out the Science Project Worksheet (Download below) and get an adult or older student to help work through it to get started. There are also some great science web site links with ideas for projects and experiments on the Bennett web site kids page. Parents or students may want to read the Bennett Science Project Handbook (Download below) for more information. The PTSA also offers low price science display boards (order forms download below)

This year, Young Scientist Week will feature the following:

• Student science projects will be on display in the school halls and library from Monday through Thursday. Students will get to experience sharing their discoveries with their classmates and buddies. Download the Science Project Handbook (below) for more information.
• Visiting scientists from the Pacific Science Center will do hands-on experiments in each classroom that are linked with the science curriculum in each grade.
• Fifth graders will participate in an environmental field course taught by the Pacific Science Center/Mercer Slough Environmental Center.
• Family Science Night will be on Wednesday evening. Plan to attend this fun event with your children to see their science project displays and get messy learning science with hands-on activities. Look out for particularly wacky senior scientists – explosions have been known to occur!
• Egg Drop Contest will be held midday Wednesday. Students enter their designs to be dropped from at height of nearly 70 feet. Plan to attend this egg shattering event and cheer for your favorites! Download the Egg Drop Contest Rules (below) for more information.

  
   

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Lunch Recess Science Workshops.   

Science workshops will be held to help students come up with a topic they are interested in and start planning their experiments. The workshop will be open to students during their lunch recess, but participants will be limited based on the number of volunteers available. Location: Bennett LRC. Lunch recess workshops are scheduled on the following dates:

• Wednesday, January 24 2007

• Wednesday, February 7th 2007

Workshop will be open to students during their lunch recess, but participants will be limited based on the number of volunteers available.  Location: Bennett LRC 

• Science Project Handbook  

• Science project work sheet

• Egg Drop Contest Rules

• FAQ's (Frequently Asked Questions about Science Projects and Young Scientist Week)

• For cool science websites for kids  go to the Bennett web site kids page!  

Display Boards

Display boards will not be ordered.

Science project display boards will be sold through the Bennett Student Store on Wednesdays. Price is $3.00 each.