Thursday, September 27, 2012

Fundraising Ideas For Science Clubs [sciencetechnology-center.blogspot.com]

Fundraising Ideas For Science Clubs [sciencetechnology-center.blogspot.com]

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Science clubs are one of the neatest groups a student can belong to. Being a part of the club allows for educational opportunities that do not really exist in other areas in life. Things like playing with liquid nitrogen, building an electric motor, doing dissections, and studying rockets are all incredibly fun and educational activities that members get to participate in.

To do them though, the club needs money. Obviously any good science club will have membership fees to cover some of the expenses but, if you want to do big projects, like taking apart an engine or dissecting a shark, you will need to have a fundraiser.

When your group leaders and coordinators meet to pick your fund raising program, they will probably all agree that the fundraiser needs to be fun, easy, and raise a good deal of money. The other criteria that is coming more and more into science club fundraiser discussions is whether or not the fundraiser is educational. Since the entire po int of your organization is to teach the members, why not pick a fundraiser that does the same thing.

Some of the best fundraising ideas for clubs that focus on science are green fundraisers. There are a lot of options available to groups that focus on biology, sustainability, and energy conservation. With each type of fundraiser, a science lesson can be easily integrated.

One of the most popular fundraisers is a plant fundraiser. The plants can be flowers, trees, and even vegetable gardens. The science club can document the growth rates of the various plants and their yield over time. For the vegetable garden fundraisers, club members can also study the effects of different environments on the vegetables production.

Sustainability fundraisers typically focus on items like plastic bag waste reduction. Have your science club study the effects of each bag in the areas of plastic bag waste and its effect on the environment.

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Question by Fireworks: How to get started with science when they don't like it to begin with? I'd like to start with beginning science books if possible. Don't want to overwhelm them from the beginning. I would like to ease them into science. They don't like science because the science teacher at their public school wasn't very helpful and left them on their own. The experience just left them very frustrated. Best answer for How to get started with science when they don't like it to begin with?:

Answer by Shea
My advice would be to make it fun. Try some fun experiments and whatnot. Also...learn with them! That way there is no 'oh ask your father. oh ask your mother' thing going on. And just be super helpful and fun and it'll be much easier for them. Dont make them read their books alone, let them take turns reading out loud with eachother. Thats an easier way to keep your mind from wandering, and makes it easier to remember.

Answer by renee70466
What are they interested in? Birds? Bugs? Plants? How things are made? What makes this old thing work? Why did this stop working? All of those things require science. For my son who is interested in how things work I asked on freecycle (look under Yahoo Groups for a group near you) for old broken radios and appliances. He takes them apart and tries to get them working again My oldest is interested in Birds so we birdwatch. She takes pictures of the birds and we look them up online. She then identifies it, finds out where is lives, what it eats and any other information she can get on them and adds it to her bird book. We also use a curriculum from Sonlight for her grade so that she is getting more than bird education. Science is all around you. Cooking is science (chemistry) and Math (use lots of recipes double them and have them figure out how much it needs to double it).

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