{"id":798,"date":"2017-10-15T18:28:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T01:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/science\/?p=798"},"modified":"2017-10-16T20:33:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T03:33:41","slug":"are-you-interested-in-science-fairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/science\/are-you-interested-in-science-fairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Interested in Science Fairs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new BC Ed curriculum places a great deal of emphasis on inquiry, communication and student choice. &nbsp;A science fair project can be an excellent way to engage students in inquiry and also meet many of the curricular competencies in science. &nbsp;If you are interested in developing a science fair style project for your Gr 4 &#8211; 9 class, come to an introductory meeting that will help you get started. The session will take place on&nbsp;Thursday, 16. November 2017 &#8211; 03:45 pm till 05:30 pm at Burnaby Central. You will leave with a thorough understanding of what is needed, some resources to put it in place, and a network of teachers (and a math\/science consultant) to support you. &nbsp;Please sign up via the <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.sd41.bc.ca\/index.php\/events-calendar\">Staff Development Calendar<\/a>.<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/learn.sd41.bc.ca\/images\/science_fair.JPG\" alt=\"science fair\" width=\"390\" height=\"225\"><\/p>\n<h3>Coyote Science&#8211;Indigenizing science<\/h3>\n<p>Also, in news on the blog, I&#8217;m trying to update the New Curriculum area. &nbsp;For starters, I have put some more description and a few more links in the Aboriginal Education page. &nbsp;One new resource I&#8217;ve come across is <a href=\"http:\/\/aptn.ca\/coyotescience\/\">Coyote Science<\/a>&#8211;a tv program that investigates a variety of science topics from an Indigenous perspective. &nbsp;Check it out and stream episodes from the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. &nbsp;Not all content is Coast Salish, but some is. &nbsp;For those of you struggling with the new Science 10 topics, there is even an episode on The Big Bang!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new BC Ed curriculum places a great deal of emphasis on inquiry, communication and student choice. &nbsp;A science fair project can be an excellent way to engage students in inquiry and also meet many of the curricular competencies in science. &nbsp;If you are interested<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/science\/are-you-interested-in-science-fairs\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7627,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7627"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}