The Getting Excited About Science workshops are designed for hands-on approach to learning. The students will be broken up into teams where the following skills will be used:

Observing

Team work - working well with others

Following Directions/Reading

Discovering what a Variable is in a Controlled Experiment

Relating Cause and Effect or Classifications

Inferring - Predicting results

Recording results

At the beginning of each session will have a short 5 min. talk and introduction. Each team will be assigned to a hands-on station. After about 4 min. I will say 1 min. warning, “Let’s wrap it up“. Then I will say “Switch” and all teams will switch to the next station in line. At the end of the session we will have a 5 min. wrap up.

The stations will be set up along the walls of a large room in a big open space in the middle. When the teams switch each team will go to the next station in a clock wise fashion. Each PTA helper or teacher will be asked to supervise 1 - 2 stations. The stations will have directions and posters. Each team will be given a “RECORDING RESULTS FORM”. Each team should come prepared with one pencil or pen.

The stations will be changed through out the day to best match the grade level of students participating.