Presentation ideas on school projects.

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material and ideas for projects but are often asked as to to school project presentation. Even if science fair is being conducted at elementary school level the school project presentation matters a lot.

Though the presentation of the project changes a bit for elementary school science project to middle school science project but the idea behind the presentation remains the same.

Here I am mentioning a step by step method to present school project in the best way possible.

STEP 1 : Select a category

Many science topics come under one single category as in sub categories and further into topics.

For example topic of renewable energy is one category of science where in topics like wind energy and solar energy are sub categories to further the kind of project you want to do on one category further narrow it down to the science fair project idea.

STEP 2: Researching the topic

Getting the topic for school science project or as it says the science fair idea is the hardest part. The easy way to go through the process is researching that is collecting the maximum information on a category and finalizing the topic for science project.

The other part of researching the topic is to finding and researching the problem, the hypothesis and the experiment. It is not only important in the case of exploratory science project but any other school-project for middle school and high school.

STEP 3: Finding the problem

Any project presentation needs to start with problem the science project is solving and what questions can be answered through the project idea. Hence any statement which defines the problem you are trying to solve through your science fair science project is the problem statement.

STEP 4: Project hypothesis.

As the word itself says is the predictable solution to the problem which was identified in step 3.

STEP 5 : designing the experiment

The method or the ways with which you will find solution the identified problem is designing the experiment.

STEP 6: Data Collection.

Results from the experiment being conducted for school science project is the raw data. Once the raw data is collected it can be presented in a science fair through organized graphs, pie- charts or tables.

STEP 7:  Designing project display.

Designing and presenting project display is important and critical for evaluator/ assessor to review the school science project in a step by step way.

All the information once collected for the science project being made should go on the display with a brief summary about school science experiment project.

An oral and brief presentation during the display also helps.

The best part of taking part in a science fair or school science project competition is to create something from scratch and doing research about the topic for the same. The objective should be to discover science instead of reading about or going through science text books.

Experimentation is the most important part of science as a subject and when it comes to discovering or making something from start its a joyful experience for the same.

Unlearn

When i started projectsforschool.com, i had to unlearn so many things. I am a physiotherapist. I was a running a clinic of my own and starting a start up was a different game altogether.

I had to unlearn, adapt to so many different things and ways which were almost alien to me.

Unlearning is moving away from a state of learning which can be difficult i would rather suggest adapt to new ways instead of unlearn. be flexible to the new ideas. B e adaptable to the new habits.

To succeed in this very competitive and highly dynamic world adaptation is what always help.

The thing which i have observed is if you keep your mind open to new ideas and you are okay with adapting new ideas and ways, the process is a whole lot easier and you eventually learn to adapt, flow and grow in the process naturally.

I was stubborn in the beginning, wary to the process of change but then it became easier because i loved what i was doing, enjoying it actually.

Summer Nostalgia

Where did all the summer fun go??

I miss those days when summer vacations were a much awaited affair. All the cousins getting together at one place to have a month long blast. Lazy afternoons and endless fun. Buckets of mangos and ice lolly and never ending games and fights. Chor sipahi and evening gali cricket , nothing could stop us from playing not even the scorching heat of mid june.  But today, i see children bound to summer schools and activities. Children are busy more than ever competing, studying and learning to get that extra edge.

Children deserve a break too and so do their parents who are mostly running around from one tuition to other lesson class. The exhausting circle is never ending and the worst part of the whole drama is most of these extra classes serve no purpose, but they do over burden the child and burn a hole in parents pocket.

Summers should be free of apps and internet, days should be full of joy and delight. Children these days are so absorbed in TV and Tablets that they are missing out on the whole part of being a child is to be not chained to one place.

Let children be children. Lets not take away their childhood with too much of vain activities.

Hilarious excuses for not doing homework

Working for projectsforschool.com, i meet with many teachers and educators and we get talking about how we deal with making learning fun.

The best is when they start explaining how their students hate doing homework and come up with very interesting and creative excuses.

1. I was just finishing my homework and mom spilled water on it as she was serving dinner at the same table
2. I took  my holiday homework to my holidays and left it in the hotel
3. My dog ate my homework
4. I ran out of all the pencils
5. Ultimate is my mom was too tired to do it for me ( that was from 3^rd grader)
6. My mother teared my notebook to scribble a phone number
7. I gave it to my friend and she lost it
8. I didn’t wanted to increase my teachers workload
9. I was not well last night
10. My little sister tore my notebook
11. And my favourite is plain and simple “ it was too boring so didn’t feel like doing it”

Un-Learn: Working on the laptop 14 hrs everyday day , the ...

Un-Learn:

Working on the laptop 14 hrs everyday day , the ...: Working on the laptop 14 hrs everyday day , the noble idea of starting again with the “it” thing Start up. Its been almost an year now...

Working on the laptop 14 hrs everyday day , the noble idea of starting again with the “it” thing Start up.

Its been almost an year now and we are still struggling. The journey has been a lonely one. Especially for me. I have lost touch with most of my friends. My family is angry with me for the decision of leaving a stabilised job and career.

I have had a few bitter short relationships in a futile and clumsy effort to hold on to something which has left me more bereft than ever. I used to be a pen and paper gal and now laptop actually occupies all of my lap all the time.

The shift started with much zest to do something disruptive and the idea of changing the world and making it a better place.

To live alone comes with a package of its own. You stop laughing. You stop being silly. Your colleagues are overly criticising, you lose the child in you. Because you put up a mask of all knowing entrepreneur, when inside you are scared and alone.

I come from a very cushioned background. I used to be a happy go lucky person who never thought what would happen tomorrow. Now tomorrow scares me.

Words were my friends once, they helped me to be me and now i don’t know if i am me anymore. People tell you when you reach the top it is lonely up there but no one actually tells you the journey is more painful. You lose an inch of belief in your vision everyday while scaling up the mountain.

People say make failures your friend but i lost my friends when i started making too many failures. I yearn to be silly and talk about things which make no sense but i cant.

Somewhere when we started it was because we laughed together and we were silly together but now, i cannot be silly with people i started with.

People change, life flows but i feel people only change when they want to or when they are made to . i don’t recognize myself anymore this melancholy surrounds me almost all the time.

I lost myself on the way up and i don’t like myself anymore.

I used to laugh so much take things lightly , now i frown when things are made light of. I believed in our vision and now i feel i will quit any day. I don’t want to run away. I want to be that person with conviction and life, i used to be but things change, people change and i have changed.

No doubt people say behind successful people there are other people. That is the profound truth of doing something great. you need great people to be with you and here I am all alone with my start up.

Unschooling

I see a future where schools are without boundaries, where toys and tools are same. Where your interests are not decided by exams and grades and creativity flows and fills up every child.

A classroom where you don't have to sit for hours going through cycles of boring lectures, where creativity and making something ordinary brings joy.
Learning should bring joy but what i have observed is most of the teachers don't have attention of their students. The best part of childhood should be school but what we see daily is young ones hating it, mostly making excuses to get off school. We all talk about making learning fun, but it would not happen until parents take active responsibility. There is already a shift in social thought process about education system which has been same for a very long time. Few pioneers have taken a step towards more experiential learning but we will never a see substantial change if parents don’t start taking keen interest in the making leaning more hands on.


The new ABCs of learning should be ‘Acceptance, Belonging and Community’ without which our traditional ABCs would fail as was written by Katrina Schwartz@mindshift.KQED which makes us all think that traditional ABCs have failed actually.

Our schools are more of factories churning out pre programmed robots. It also leaves us with very less source of exploring, experimenting and enterprising when it comes to the curriculum. The first step is to accept the fact that we need to change our age old education system and the change will only come when we as a community take responsibility to bring the change we want to see. Home schooling or activity based learning realizes the basic need that each child has specific needs when it comes to education and the techniques can be moulded specifically.

Lets hope we see the shift in the model soon which realizes the shortcomings of our regular system and focuses on learning by doing.

PERSEVERANCE OR A BORN ‘MATH GENIUS’

PERSEVERANCE OR A BORN ‘MATH GENIUS’

When i was in middle school, i was an average student, but my weakest point was maths. Scoldings or encouragement nothing could change it, so my mother reflects even today. With a tonn of cousins going places with amazing math results, i thought it will always remain a mystery to me.

When it came to choosing subjects in high school, i made sure maths was nowhere near me in any way possible even though I enjoyed physics and solving little less tricky theorems.

I wish someone had told me at that time that maths is not about eating all your green vegetables or a gift which I seemed to have lost when it came to me even though Ii had good share of relatives and solving and acing all the scary math sums.  I thought “I simply did not had it in my DNA’ Hence the medical profession and I cheered myself through as i thought i was done with maths forever.

I didn’t flunk any of the exams but i could not muster even average score ,even though I made sure my other subjects covered for my shortcoming. I wish someone at that time had told me that maths is all about perseverance and not about what kind of math genius brains you have.

Studies have shown that students who spend more time at solving mathematical queries are better at it than those who give up too soon. We forget all the time that maths is an activity you learn by doing instead of mugging it up. The whole point being you are never born a maths genius, you eventually become one by doing things regularly and keep doing them and not giving up. Working hard is what makes the difference.

Talking to your child about it and keep going at it will surely make the difference. Its just simple, you do not give up on your child so that your child does not give up on mathematics.

Remember if i knew that its not that you need to be a maths person to learn maths “i would have ended up differently, if only my parents had the information and the technology we have today” says Dr. Naina Arora from projectsforschool.com