For Teachers
We Want to Hear from You
The Science Fair Foundation BC is interested in working more closely with teachers to identify and develop support for science fair programming in the classroom. If you have ideas or would like to be involved, please get in touch.
Other Resources
Looking to start up science fairs in your classroom? Refer to the list of resources below!
We are always looking to improve our resources, so if you have any specific questions or requests, please send us an e-mail at info@sciencefairs.ca.
A step-by-step guide to help your students through their science fair project. This includes K-9 curriculum correlations.
This list, categorized by project type (Experiment / Innovation / Study), provides ideas of topics that students can choose to explore with in their science fair project.
Written by Morgan Whitehouse (SD73), Last Updated: December 2019
Each row of this rubric is meant to be a step in the process of guiding the student through the process of designing their project: evaluate as the project progresses, once a row has been filled the student can move onto the next step, there is no need to revisit a previous row.
This rubric is designed for assessing projects within classrooms. Science Fairs at the Regional and Canada-Wide level use a ranking rubric to evaluate projects: while the ranking is helpful for choosing projects to progress to the next level of competition, it is not necessarily a good tool to assess science fair projects individually.
Written by Albert Chang (Crofton House), Last Updated: October 2019
Worksheets for students that have completed a science fair project:
– Self Assessment of Curricular Competencies
– Self Assessment of Core Competencies
– Career Life Exploration & Connections
– Integrating First Peoples’ Principles of Learning
Written by Morgan Whitehouse (SD73)
A standards-based assessment for Science Fair, using the Emerging/Developing/Proficient/Extending levels of competency.
Written by Morgan Whitehouse (SD73)
A resource book for a non-competitive approach to science fair projects
Ensure that students follow Youth Science Canada’s ethics guidelines. Projects in violation of these ethics requirements may be subject to disqualification at higher levels of competition.
The Smarter Science Framework
Smarter Science is the training tool developed by Youth Science Canada (YSC). It is a Canadian framework for teaching and learning science process skills and for developing the skills of inquiry, creativity, and innovation in a meaningful manner for students from Grades K-12.
Teachers are coached on techniques for teaching the processes of inquiry and technological problem solving. The inquiry-based approach of this framework lends itself naturally to self-directed project-based science.
A key feature of Smarter Science is its open-source nature. All resources developed by cooperating jurisdictions and contributed by teachers can be accessed online, at no cost, through www.smarterscience.ca. Resources may be freely reproduced and distributed under Creative Commons licensing.
The Science Fair Foundation BC is no longer stocking Smarter Science Posters. Please click here to order posters directly from Youth Science Canada.
Learn more about the Smarter Science Inquiry Framework.
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