Workshops

Free Science Teacher and Student Workshops

Delaware Valley Science Fairs offers free Science workshops to teachers and students at your school

Workshop Offerings

1.       “ The How –to’s of Doing Student Science Research”  - This workshop will give teachers and students the foundation for the reason and purpose for incorporating science research into the classrooms and encourage students to see the purpose in completing an “inquiry based” research project.  The first steps of project selection, literature research, procedural set-up, data collection and analysis, finishing with conclusions, applications and project display will be discussed and modeled. 

This workshop will be presented at the school site or a local site convenient to participants for a period of 1-6 hours depending on depth of presentation.

2.      “Designing an Inquiry – Based Science Research Program” – This workshop will be similar to workshop number one, but will not have participants doing their own research project. 

      This workshop will be one hour. 

3.      “Science Research Resource Room” – This workshop will present an overview of “Inquiry Research”, methods to find project ideas, schedules for science research program, and how to handle parental involvement.    A Mentorship program will be discussed and made available.  Elements of successful science research projects from ISEF will also be given.

This workshop will be one hour.

4.      “Forms -on – Line” –This workshop allows students and teachers to understand the correct order and form for each student’ set of protocol to compete in research competitions.   The current ISEF Rules booklet will be handed out and used with workshop materials.

This workshop will be one hour.

5.       “The Science of Inquiry” A workshop that shows teachers the differences in inquiry based classrooms and traditional classroom teaching.  In addition teachers will study, discuss and perform inquiry based lessons that will demonstrate to them the many types of inquiry – based classrooms.  Materials for this workshop go hand in hand with the presentation and will provided the day of the workshop.

This workshop will be 90 minutes.

Workshops funded in part by: GlaxoSmithKline, Rohm & Haas Company, the Hamilton Foundation and the Teleflex Foundation.