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February 3, 2016 12:15 PM

The project display board offers students a wonderful opportunity to show off and summarize their science fair project. What goes into making a well-organized and successful project display board, and how can students fill all that blank space? Review project display board basics with students to help them create effective display boards that showcase their hands-on STEM projects. It's science fair season, and as students wrap up their science,… Read more

Putting Together a Science Fair Project Display Board

March 9, 2015 5:00 AM

The project display board is how you present your project at the science fair. What goes into a well-organized and effective science fair project display board? For additional information related to doing a science fair project display board (and keeping notes along the way that make the whole process even easier), see the following: Science Fair Project Display Boards Perfecting the Project Display Board Get a Jump Start on the Project Display… Read more

Kids Read Science News

January 14, 2015 10:00 AM

A new website feature at Science Buddies, sponsored by the Cisco Foundation, brings science news to students. With the news feed, students can easily locate science news stories related to a project or an area of science interest. Students will find links to related science news articles on the "Background" and "Learn More" tabs of Project Ideas at Science Buddies. Read All About It! Read Science News at Science Buddies Science Buddies continues to expand its resources and… Read more

Get a Jump Start on the Project Display Board

November 4, 2014 11:00 AM

You don't have to wait until the last minute to start the project display board for a science fair project. A great board takes planning, and you can do a good deal of preliminary legwork getting your board ready even before the project is complete! Above: Students share their science projects with project display boards. See these students' stories: Galactic Curiosity and A Crash Course Science Project. The Science Fair Project Display Boards… Read more

Teachers who Pin: Teachers Find Support and Inspiration for Science Education at Pinterest

March 7, 2014 11:00 AM

Teachers may or may not be tweeting their science lesson plans or sharing every hands-on engineering classroom activity at Facebook, but they are finding inspiration and community at Pinterest, where discovering new ideas and approaches to teaching is fun, visual, and easy. See it. Like it? Pin it for later. As a virtual bookmarking and filing cabinet system, Pinterest gets an A+ from many teachers—and is helping this teacher with classroom science and math planning. Pinning… Read more

Helping Teachers Approach Next Generation Science Standards

September 24, 2013 4:30 PM

As administrators and school boards around the country consider the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), Science Buddies is helping teachers begin ramping up, now, for some of the ways in which traditional classroom science projects and assignments may change. Side-by-side Comparison Science Buddies teacher resources and blog posts help teachers prepare to incorporate the engineering design process more widely in their classes. Rhode Island, Kansas, Maryland, Vermont, and… Read more

Understanding the Engineering Design Process: Teachers Embracing Engineering Design

September 16, 2013 12:27 PM

Teachers tasked with adapting science lesson plans to meet new standards that place increased emphasis on engineering design as a critical scientific practice need real-world resources to help them integrate engineering design in the classroom. Teaching and celebrating the engineering method is a positive change in K-12 science education, and Science Buddies can help teachers sort out the differences between scientific and engineering methods—and how the methods may play out in student… Read more

New Science Standards Emphasize the Engineering Design Process

September 13, 2013 9:00 AM

The Next Generation Science Standards encourage a multi-dimensional view of science education, one that highlights the importance of students learning to use the engineering design process—as well as the scientific method. Science and Engineering Methods Side by Side in Next Generation Science Standards A classic physics activity challenges students to discover how to keep an egg from breaking when dropped from a certain height. Using the scientific method, a student may initially… Read more

Top Science Teacher Inspires Student Science with Science Buddies

August 14, 2013 8:00 AM

For this middle school science teacher, Science Buddies has a front-row seat in the classroom, providing support for hands-on student science fair projects and for curricular and extra-curricular planning. Students and Teachers Find Hands-on Science Success with Science Buddies Angela McDaniel uses the Topic Selection Wizard and Project Library of more than 1,300 hands-on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) project ideas with her students in Moatsville, WV. In recent years,… Read more

K-5 Teachers Science Survey and Chance to Win!

April 1, 2013 12:06 PM

Science night? Science fair? Science lab? Family science event? We want to learn more about science education at your school. All K-5 teachers who complete our teacher survey will be automatically entered for a chance to win a great prize pack from Elmer's (pictured above). Read more

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