SUSTAINABILITY! – Rancho STEAM Showcase 
Science can be fun! Information packets have already gone home in the Friday folders about the Science Fair which takes place on Wednesday evening, February 26, 2020 from 6:00p – 7:00p in the Multipurpose Room at Rancho. Science tri-fold boards are optional and available in the school front office and distributed in exchange for signed science project form with the science project idea. Participants are eligible from grades Kindergarten through 5th grade.
The science fair included projects that used the scientific method and tested a prediction which was was appropriate for the former science standards. To align with the new NGSS standards, we needed to shift our focus to include the Science and Engineering Practices, which targets the problem solving in science. Projects will include science thinking, technology tools, engineering practices, creative thinking through the arts, and mathematical analysis. All or aspects of these elements are integrated and reviewed.
Click here for the registration packet: Rancho STEAM Showcase Forms: Science STEAM Showcase Feb 2020 ENG Science STEAM Showcase Feb 2020 SP
Completed projects will be collected in the multipurpose room on Tuesday, February 25th or at morning drop off BEFORE SCHOOL on Wednesday, February 26th. Thank you for parking your car in a VISITOR parking spot if your student needed extra time getting their boards out of your vehicles so the morning traffic will not be disrupted and flow as smoothly as possible! Please make sure you have read and followed the rules detailed in the packet, as well as to obtain any information you may need.
Visit the Marin County Elementary STEAM Showcase at the Marin County Office of Education, 1111 Las Gallinas Ave., San Rafael, CA, during March 31st through April 1st, 2020 to support the Rancho students’ projects that have moved on to the county level! Students who move on to the next level also have a showcase from April 2nd to April 12th, 2020 at the Bay Model Exhibition at 2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito, CA .
The Marin County Elementary STEAM Showcase is open to all students enrolled in grades kindergarten through 5th in any public or private school in Marin County. Individual or group projects will be selected at the student’s school, and will be submitted to the Marin County Science STEAM Showcase. For details visit MCOE’s website at: MCOE Science-Fair Information
Questions? Please contact the Janice Pack, kindergarten teacher by email at: [email protected]
Christina Lunde, Marin County Office of Education Services, P.O. Box 4925, San Rafael, CA 94913
Phone: (415) 499-5870 or Email: [email protected]