Overview+of+the+Day

Science Fun Day is a day filled with students learning science, as parent volunteers present exciting experiments and activities to students in all grade levels. Parent volunteers plan and coordinate various scientific experiments to engage students and teach them about the wonderful world of science. Our Home & School Association provides breakfast and lunch for all parent and high school student volunteers. Students rotate among various classrooms throughout the day to experience science, as well as attend a science related assembly.

Planning Science Fun Day is a year long process that requires the help of a committee of teachers to lead their grade level volunteers. Each grade level has a teacher representative that acts as the contact person for their grade level, holds parent volunteer meetings, and creates their grade level's schedule for the day. Below is an example of what the committee does throughout the year to prepare for this exciting day.


 * What Needs To Be Done: **
 * Decide if you are going to “partner up” with another grade level for rotation purposes
 * 1st & 2nd
 * 3rd & 4th
 * 5th & 6th
 * Assembly ~ The Franklin Institute Traveling Science Show: Life in Space
 * Developed in conjunction with NASA
 * The show begins with a bang as a rocket launches your students into space! Once there, students enter “astronaut training” to explore the challenges of living and working in space. Your students will marvel as one of their classmates gets “pressurized” for the grand finale.
 * **Assembly Schedule (show is approximately 45 minutes): **
 * 9:30-10:30 ~ K-AM, 1, & 2
 * 10:30-11:30 ~ 5 & 6
 * 12:45-1:45 ~ K-PM, 3, & 4
 * By December ~ **
 * Make contact with parent volunteers from Back to School sign-up sheets
 * Set up first parent meeting in December to get “Captains” and volunteers finalized
 * Start brainstorming experiments ~ create a classroom theme
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Some parents like to relate the theme to the current science curriculum. That creates a great enrichment activity, but is not necessary if parents are unsure of an experiement that relates to the units being taught. The goal is for all students to explore various aspects of science, learn something new, and see how science relates to our everyday lives.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">By January ~ **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Hold second volunteer meeting
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Finalize classroom themes and experiments
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Record experiment titles and classroom themes
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">By end of January/beginning of February create a list of materials needed list for experiments to include in the newsletter
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Example: bottles, paper towel tubes, soda bottles, etc.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Make sure you include quantities!
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">By February ~ **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Hold third volunteer meeting
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Finalize experiments and have parents test everything so they know what to expect on SFD
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Coverage for grade levels will be sent out for you to develop a schedule/rotation schedule that works for you and your grade level(s)