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November 2012
Dear Parents,
We are in
the process of preparing for this year’s Inventor’s Congress. The Inventor’s Congress is scheduled
for Friday, January 25th.
We would
like to have each student receive support at home in completing a high-quality
project for display. Please feel
free to help, support, and encourage your child’s best efforts in putting
together a first-rate project.
However, please be careful to let your child do the work
him/herself. Do not do the project
for him/her. Your child will learn
more if you limit your involvement to encouraging and guiding.
This
assignment is a required unit for our Fourth Grade Science curriculum. Every student will be expected to
complete a project. Each project will be evaluated.
The packet
your child has brought home today includes guidelines for completing a
project. Please go through this
information and help your child select a project that will be of interest to
your child and will be appropriate in terms of level of difficulty and resources
(materials, resources, information and space) available.
The
final date for turning in an invention plan will be Monday, December
17th. The invention plan is simply the student writing down the idea
they have for their invention.
Since one of the hardest parts of preparing for the Inventor’s Congress
is selecting a project, your child may need some assistance from you between
now and the due date. We will complete activities to stir your child’s
imagination, but we will expect that your child will determine what they will
invent. All inventions will be created at home. However, the three required
paragraphs may be written and typed at school.
Final Projects are due in school Friday, January
16th- January 24th
Due
date is based on sign up sheet
Please read
the attached time line and display board example to help your student stay on
task. Thank you for your help and
cooperation!
Sincerely,
Fourth Grade Teachers
Timeline
for the
Inventors’ Congress Project
November/ December 2012 –
Introduce Inventors’ Congress during science classes. Students begin to
generate ideas for creating an invention.
Week of December 10th-
Invention Logs are discussed and sent home.
December 17th –
Students turn in their Invention Plan/Proposal and share it with their classmates.
Invention Logs are passed out and students begin
working on them.
December 18th
–Students begin rough draft of their Purpose paragraph. Parents edit rough draft.
December 20th –
Students begin rough draft of their Improvement paragraph. Parents edit rough draft.
December 21st –
Students begin creating their invention at home and complete it over the break
(students may type paragraphs at home).
January 2nd-
Students return ready to type up the final draft of their Purpose and
Improvement paragraphs.
January 4th- Students begin
rough draft of their “How It Works” paragraph.
Parents edit rough draft.
January 7th –
Students type final draft of “How It Works” paragraph.
January 8th-
Students begin “assembling” their display boards at home.
January 16, 17, 18, 22, 23,
and 24th– Students submit and present their Inventions, Logs, and display
boards to the
class based on sign up schedule
January 25th –
Inventors’ Congress in the PV gym.
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