Students

1. Support your child's progress by:

   • encouraging your child to begin the Science Fair process well in advance of deadlines - each step of the process will probably take more time than expected.

   • ensuring the project is conducted safely and according to the TSF Safety guidelines. Please review the rules and regulations; specifically, note that students may not bring food or plants to the Science Fair and they must have permission forms for projects involving human participation.

   • helping to gather materials

   • giving advice and providing moral support

2. Ensure that your child has received a registration password from his/her teacher prior to the registration deadline

3. Download and sign the mandatory consent form. Your child will bring this signed form on the registration night.

Science Buddies Parents' Guide: Science Buddies is a non-profit organization focused on providing free science fair ideas, answers, and tools for students in grades K-12. Many other great resources can be found under the Parent link on this site.

• http://www.sciencebuddies.org/blog/2015/08/a-positive-science-fair-project-experience.php

Youth Science Foundation: Smarter Science is part of Youth Science Canada's program for engaging youth in science and providing a curricular connection to project-based science and science fairs. This site provides many excellent links for all ages that can help your child plan, carry out and present a successful Science Fair project.

• https://smarterscience.youthscience.ca/science-fair-resources

Science Fair Central from Discovery Education offers free resources ranging from getting started to presenting final projects. There is also a very good guide for parents.

• http://school.discoveryeducation.com/sciencefaircentral/?pID=fair

• http://school.discoveryeducation.com/sciencefaircentral/Parent-Resources.html

Anatomy of a display board:

• http://www.sciencebuddies.org/blog/2015/03/putting-together-a-project-display-board.php