+PJAS: November 17,2011

Agenda:

New Rules

Forms

What you need to do

+BHS, PJAS, Rules and Regs

You must clean up absolutely everything that you touch.

This includes: PJAS books, Computers, Equipment, Glassware

Everything you move from its place in the BHS Science Department, must be put back!!!!

Anything you bring in from outside to do your project, must be taken away.

Anything you keep in the refrigerator or in the plant room must be removed and the area cleaned when you are finished.

+Project Verification:

If you do not do your project afterschool with a member of the BHS faculty, you must

Provide photographic evidence of your work throughout the project.

This will include you in the picture with your specimens as the project procedures. This does not mean one shot of you, but several of you as you do the project.

Any student who is found to have falsified data or to have plagiarized any part of their project will not be able to present at PJAS>

+Dates and Deadlines

December 1, 2011: Last day to submit your procedure

Procedure must include a detailed materials list and a step by step procedure.

The procedure must include exactly what you plan to do,and

how you will measure your data and how you will analyze your data.

+More Dates

December 12th, 2011:

All projects requiring special forms must have all forms submitted by this date.

December 19th,2011:

Last day to submit forms for all other projects. All forms must be complete, dated and signed. If your forms have problems on this date you will not be able to participate.

December 19,2011:

Last day to submit registration fee.

Please submit as a check made out to BHS for $20.00. This is for PJAS regional and expenses.

+EVERY Project needs

Medical Form : Not Available Yet!

PJAS Registration form: Not Available Yet!

All Other forms are available at this website:

http://www.societyforscience.org/isef/document

I will email this to all students with approved project.

+REQUIRED FOR ALL PROJECTS!!!Adult Sponsor Checklist

Research Plan(1A)- You must attach a description of your experiment, hypothesis, and a bibliography with FIVE sources to this form

Approval Form1B –

Date and Sign all forms.

+ Special Forms:If you are working with Bacteria, Humans, Animals, Dangerous Chemicals or Equipment IC Institution – Working somewhere other than

school or home2 – Qualified Scientist ( Bacteria, Animals,

Hazardous Equipment)3- Risk Assessment ( May be required for all the

above)4- Human Subjects ( required for all human

behavior projects)There are other forms, these are just the most

commonly used ones.

+Keys To A Winning Project

Get Started Early

Make an appointment to stay afterschool with Ms. Gallagher, Mr. Bates, or Mr. Morantz

+All Projects Must Include:

Title,

Problem Statement, Hypothesis/Prediction,

Theory: background Info

Methods and Materials,

Data Collection,

Analysis,

Conclusion and IN THE FUTURE

+Great Projects Contain:

Only One Variable

A Control Group

Several Trials

Data Analysis (Data Tables, Graphs, Statistical Analysis of some type)

A large specimen sample