AIS Parents Day Registration Form and Details

Hi,

• AIS PARENT's DAY is on Match 11th to be held at Montgomery College, Germantown Campus.
• For Non-Reigstered students, March 4th at Lockheed 
• Submission Due Date - Sunday Feb 19
• All students are expected to participate and must fill in the following form to register project
• Parents Day Project Form for Registered Students 
• Parents Day Project Form for Non-registered Students
• Parent's day is a Program where children from ALL the sites convene to present projects they have been working on  from January
• Projects presentations last from about 5 to 15 minutes-Average presentations so far have lasted about 10 minutes for our site kids.
• Your children either perform an experiment, read up on some topic and write things down (PLEASE ENCOURAGE THEM NOT TO COPY VERBATIM FROM GOOGLE or OTHER SITES) in a reasonably cogent order.
• Some helpful resources for Projects:

• Past Parents Day Projects
• Science Fair Investigation Project Steps
• Parents Role in Science Projects
• Prepare Presentations in Power Point Slides ONLY. PLEASE Keep it simple (no fancy graphics). Need not bring Models to the presentations.
• If they want to they can work with a sibling or friend (from LM or other sites)
• As Parents and Guardians, you are requested NOT to do their presentations for them BUT ENCOURAGED to guide them-give tips/ideas. Your kids ARE smart-they are lots more capable than they are given credit for!!

After reading this e.mail and going through the material, if you still have questions, please let me or Raj know. 

-

Krishna

AIS Session Jan 7

Folks

 

Hope you ALL had a Good, Relaxing break.

 

IMPORTANT:

 

The weatherperson is calling for SNOW this weekend-But later in the AFTERNOON on SATURDAY; I WILL:

 

1.       CANCEL IF THE WEATHER FOLKS POSITIVELY SAY(BY FRIDAY NIGHT) THAT THERE IS SNOW SATURDAY MORNING-SAFETY IS THE PRIME CONSIDERATION.

2.       CANCEL-SEND TEXT MESSAGE (FROM CHETAN SABNIS) CANCELLING AIS (ONLY LM-OTHER SITES HAVE THEIR OWN PROTOCOL) ON SATURDAY MORNING BY 7:15 AM (WILL ALSO SEND OUT  AN EMAIL).

 

OTHERWISE, we have FIVE (5) wonderful sessions for you.

 

BEFORE YOU READ the TOPICS, PLEASE NOTE:

 

a.       I have put words in a couple of topics-hopefully they are CORRECT!! If I am WRONGyou will know when the teacher EXPLAINS!!

b.      We need NEWSPAPERS to preserve the tables!! Hopefully I am not THE ONLY ONE that buys them!  (PLEASE Bring WHAT you can IF you can)!!

 

2.       Heart Dissection: HOW is a Sheep Heart different than a Human Heart? How many chambers does it have? Does blood flow clockwise/anti-clockwise? What is the difference? Learn HOW to dissect and LEARN about what is common between animal and human hearts (ALSO, take home the remains-do not be heartless!!)

 

3.       SOAP: What is Soap; What is it made out of: Why do you use soap: Is there a Difference between CLEANING and WASHING Soaps? How do Fragrances get added- Are these GOOD or BAD? WHY is the Soap surface SMOOTH and NOT ROUGH? WHAT are ORGANIC Soaps OR VEGAN Soaps? Make ORGANIC, Vegan Soap

 

4.       BUILDINGS: HOW are they BUILT? WHAT OR WHO is an ARCHITECT? How to become one? WHAT does an architect do? HOW is MATH involved in Building? SEE a PLAN for a building. LEARN About Famous Buildings. PLAY a GUESSING GAME.  Learn HOW to BUILD extensions to your Home?

 

5.       PLANTS; WHAT are Plants? Where do they grow? Are INDOOR Plants different from Outdoor Plants? What do they NEED to GROW? WILL Regular FOOD do? WHY do Plants wind themselves to anything solid? What are common plants in different parts of the world? What use are they?

 

6.       Electricity-Basic Building Blocks of Electrical Circuits: What are ATOMS? How are they formed? Where do they exist? What do they do? What is ELECTRICITY? What are circuits? What is RESISTANCE/CAPCITANCE/INDUCTANCE? WHAT are Serial and Parallel Circuits? Build a Simple Circuit to Turn On an LED. WHERE are CAPACITORS Used?

 

THE YOGA PRACTIONERS CAN COME PREPARED AS USUAL

 

HOPE YOU –PARENTS-WORKED WITH YOUR CHILDREN TO THINK OF A TOPIC THEY WOULD DO A PROJECT ON!! (IF NOT PLEASE DO)-As a reminder, some details below.

 

PARENTS' DAY PROJECTS:

 

·         On Parent's Day your children will present a project they work on from January to a small Peer Group of children.

·         Projects can be theoretical (read some literature and present) or experiments.

·         Concepts should be SIMPLE-something they can do with guidance and speak to.

·         PURPOSE is to make them understand the effort it needs to put a (reasonably) cogent presentation from material they collect. PARENTAL GUIDANCE & HELP is FINE-PLEASE DO NOT DO IT FOR THEM-DEFEATS the PURPOSE!!

·         Each Project should have a hypothesis, Body of work, a conclusion (AND a sentence or two on why the conclusion matches or does not with the hypothesis-IN THEIR OWN WORDS.)

·         DR. K will provide a list of topics Children used over the past few years. PLEASE work with your CHHILDREN to GAUGE their Interest and IDEAS and work WITH THEM to Bring to Fruition.

·         We Would LIKE ALL CHILDREN to do a Project-PREFER that they DO NOT REPEAT what they do IN School for the SCIENCE FAIR/SCIENCE DAY etc.

 

Cheers

 

Raj