Curriculum Spotlight: Science Fair Achievement

The Middle School Science program at Mayfield Junior School encourages creativity, critical thinking and discovery. In the winter seventh graders are challenged to design and conduct a science project that used the scientific method and then to organize their results in a science fair presentation format including written and oral elements. Over the course of a two-day science fair on campus, theory, process and results were presented to visitors and to judges in 5-10 minute interviews. “One of our goals at Mayfield is to have kids discover how science is everywhere,” explains science teacher Mark Pattullo. With projects applying scientific method to question everything from the cleanliness of a dog’s tongue to the added velocity of swim caps to swimming, students really took the challenge outside the box.