Hi! It’s Tuesday, January 11, 2011 and time for Science at ClickSchooling!
Recommended Website:
Google’s Science Fair
Age Range: 13-18
This morning Google is launching a worldwide, web-based science fair! Students can enter and compete (individually or in a team of 2-3) to win cool prizes. The Grand Prize includes:
- An all-expenses paid 10-day vacation to the Galapagos Islands with National Geographic Expeditions!
- A $50,000 Scholarship
- An experience at CERN, Google, LEGO, or Scientific American
- A personalized LEGO Prize
Just submit an “interesting, creative project that is relevant to the world today” and then:
- Plan your science project.
- Conduct your experiment.
- Write up your results.
- Create either a two-minute video or 20-slide presentation giving an overview of your project.
- Follow the directions to submit your project by April 4, 2011.
The global science competition is being hosted in partnership with CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), LEGO, National Geographic and Scientific American.
Teachers can sign up to receive free classroom materials that include posters, stickers and bookmarks at the website where you’ll also find a free printable outline of the “Scientific Method” that includes:
- Question
- Hypothesis
- Research
- Experiment
- Data
- Observations
- Conclusions
Put on your lab coats, get out your test tubes, and submit your entry! Or just follow the fair online to learn a lot and be inspired!
