There are some great teaching units available for grades K-8
from the Center for Gifted Education at the College of William and Mary. For a
list of available units and descriptions, click here. The goals of each unit are to allow students to analyze several real-world
problems, understand the concept of systems, and design and conduct scientific
experiments.
Parents should be encouraged to introduce their children to science
through books, museums, nature centers, Internet sites, experiments—anything
that exposes them to the subject.
As students enter middle and high school there are opportunities
for advanced classes and competitions in science.
Here is a list of competitions. Most are for middle and high
school students, but some include competitions or activities for younger
students.
This is a multi-tiered competition designed to stimulate and
promote achievement in high school chemistry.
This science essay competition is for students in grades
7-12.
ExploraVision is a competition for students of all interest,
skill, and ability levels in grades K-12. The purpose of the competition is to
encourage students to combine their imaginations with the tools of science to
create and explore a vision of a future technology. Prizes include U.S. Savings
Bonds.
This is the world's largest pre-college celebration of
science. It provides an
annual forum for more than 1,500 high school students from 65 countries,
regions, and territories to showcase their independent research as they compete
for over $4 million annually.
This competition is intended to increase knowledge of the
oceans on the part of high school students, their teachers and parents, as well
as to raise the visibility and public understanding of the national investment
in ocean-related research.
This is an academic competition among teams of high school
students who attend science seminars and compete in verbal forum to solve
technical problems and answer questions in all branches of science and math.
This competition provides middle and high school students an
opportunity to compete in teams. This website also has Science Olympiad
activity suggestions for elementary school students.
This national model rocket competition for U.S. high school
and middle school students has a grand prize pool of over $60,000 in cash and
savings bonds that is shared by the winning teams.
The American Association of Physics Teachers and the
American Institute of Physics sponsor a competition each year for high school
students to represent the United States at the International Physics Olympiad
Competition.
This is a biology competition for high school students.
The YES Competition offers college scholarship awards to
high school juniors and seniors who conduct outstanding research projects that
apply epidemiological methods of analysis to a health-related issue.
The Young Naturalist
Awards is a research-based science competition for students in grades 7-12 to
promote participation and communication in science.
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