| Anytime you create a fun, challenging and hands-on | | | | Reason: In this instant world, kids expect things to be |
| assignment for your students to use in class, or as a | | | | handed to them, and expect answers to instantly |
| homework assignment, you are creating an awesome | | | | appear. A project where they must do something first, |
| and highly effective learning experience. You can be | | | | have a process to follow and gather the results |
| sure the kids will love a classroom activity or | | | | themselves, and draw their own conclusions, will help |
| homework assignment that is not lecture, books and | | | | build patience and independence, both great work |
| paperwork! Including one day science fair projects in | | | | habits to acquire. |
| you teaching tool box really and truly helps create a | | | | 4) I love one day science fair projects because they |
| positive, healthy, well-rounded classroom where you | | | | are perfect thing for parents to have access to on |
| can feel learning ooze from the walls. | | | | those nights their child comes home and tells them |
| Here are five reasons why I love this kind of teaching | | | | they have an experiment due tomorrow. |
| tool: | | | | Reason: Having access to quality science projects that |
| 1) I love one day science fair projects because they | | | | can be downloaded immediately, and have complete, |
| break up the boring pencil and paper routine. | | | | easy to follow directions, with built in spreadsheets for |
| Reason: You do not want students to get turned off | | | | data entry that can be transformed into cool charts, |
| about your subject because it is all books and | | | | will save the night for both parent and child! |
| paperwork. Students that come home with a pile of | | | | 5) I love one day science fair projects because they |
| books, and all of them require basically the same thing, | | | | are hands-on, active, and multisensory, which is one of |
| read and answer questions, does not instill a love of | | | | the best approaches to teaching ever. |
| learning in most kids. Having hands-on projects gives | | | | Reason: Whether you call it motor memory, or hands |
| them something to look forward to and builds | | | | on learning, or multisensory, what you are doing is |
| excitement. | | | | bringing together, seeing, hearing, and doing into one |
| 2) I love these one day science fair projects because | | | | learning experience. The memory of the lesson |
| they are short and sweet, with easy to follow | | | | learned will be much stronger than if they were just to |
| directions. | | | | read it in a book. |
| Reason: You want to keep the attention of the | | | | "It is no good knowing about the taste of strawberries |
| students, and long drawn out complicated projects | | | | out of a book." (Aldous Huxley) reflects the theme |
| sometime lose their appeal. Having shorter, easy to | | | | behind multisensory approach to teaching. Teachers |
| follow projects that can be completed in one | | | | that create an active, hands-on learning environment |
| classroom period or in one evening as homework | | | | will create lessons that will be remembered forever. |
| ends up being a nice neat package with a higher | | | | Science teachers who use one day science fair |
| probability of success. | | | | projects regularly will may end up helping to create |
| 3) I love one day science fair projects because they | | | | independent thinkers that actually like science. |
| encourage independent work habits. | | | | |