Beyond the Science Fair Creating a Kids Inquiry Conference (Paperback (Trade Paper))

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Beyond the Science Fair Creating a Kids Inquiry Conference Wendy Saul is Shopmaker Professor of Education at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Its time to rethink the traditional science fair, with its tired tri-fold posters and first-prize ribbons. Its time to create an event where children share the results of authentic, personally meaningful explorations with one another rather than compete for adults praise and attention. Its time for a Kids Inquiry Conference (KIC). Beyond the Science Fair is a how-to manual for organizing and hosting a KIC thats linked to your curricular planning and goals. Beginning with a snapshot of a KIC developed by the authors, Beyond the Science Fair guides you through the specifics of organizing and hosting the conference in your classroom, school, or district, with a wealth of narrative descriptions of KIC classrooms examples of student projects personal reflections by students and teachers involved in KICs tips on encouraging student involvement an extensive resource list 26 helpful, reproducible forms like student registrations, promotional flyers, and letters to parents. Then Beyond the Science Fair details how KICs can contribute toward your curricular objectives, including information on how they help you meet science and literacy standards develop students critical-thinking, analytical, and presentation skills implement inquiry-based science instruction use cross-curricular learning to support scientific inquiry. Adopt a more meaningful and student-centered alternative to the science fair. Read Beyond the Science Fair and create opportunities for kids to investigate their world and share the products of their natural curiosity with a scientific community of their peers. The Kids Inquiry Conference An Overview The Evolution of KIC The Road to KIC A Classroom Story KIC in the Classroom I Laying the Foundation Through Exploration KIC in the Classroom II Moving Beyond Exploration to Investigation and Presentation Connecting Science and Literacy Through Inquiry and the Kids Inquiry Conference Assessment in the Inquiry Classroom Supporting Science and Literacy Standards Through KIC Learning to Think Outside the Box A Students Story The Nuts and Bolts of Organizing and Hosting KIC Resources Forms Adopt a more meaningful and student-centered alternative to the science fair. Read Beyond the Science Fair and create opportunities for kids to investigate their world and share the products of their natural curiosity with a scientific community of their peers. Beyond the Science Fair is a how-to manual for organizing and hosting a KIC thats linked to your curricular planning and goals. Beginning with a snapshot of a KIC developed by the authors, Beyond the Science Fair guides you through the specifics of organizing and hosting the conference in your classroom, school, or district.--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Adopt a more m

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