WhatScience? wrote:SPP SciO wrote:hgmsscienceolympiad wrote:
Your response makes 0 sense given what I posted. The rule change was done to prevent event supervisors throwing their boards together at the last moment and making sure all boxes can have an answer. I am looking to start coming up with topics based on the science standards. I also know, since I am a coach and teacher, that different states are not CCSS aligned.
Where did you hear about the College & Career Readiness standards? I think that event supervisors have a LOT of leeway with rule 3a.i. "Grade appropriate" also takes into account that the typical Science Olympian competing in Fast Facts has an above-average science vocabulary. I'd imagine you'll see a mix of easy and challenging categories, and you can anticipate the tests becoming harder from regionals to states.
This is what I meant...sorry for unclear wording. There are no specific topics. You can't just go in expecting everything on it to have been covered by 8th grade standards. There must be a possible answer but it could be about next to anything. I have seen some of the Fast Facts tests one of my friends took. Some are simple and others are obscure. Please don't say that I am making no sense. I am not just coming up with random responses you know.
Rule 3i states that "Categories will be age appropriate and aligned with grade level science standards." T Therefore, it is reasonable to conclude that I CAN expect specific topics, or at least topics which are consistent with grades 6-9 level standards. Will they have some leeway? Absolutely. I'm not disputing that nor am I asking for a list of all possible categories. However, I wanted to know if anyone knew which science standards we could expect because different states consider themselves aligned with different specific grade level standards- some CCSS and some Next Gen standards.
I'm well aware, as someone who was on a state championship team, that the categories will become more rigorous from invitationals to regionals to states to nationals. That's not my question. I'm also not disputing that some categories may have obscure answers-that's a given. All I am asking is if anyone knew which grade level standards nationals would consider THE "grade level standards" referenced in rule 3i.
I'm perfectly well aware that you are not coming up with random responses and the words you are typing make sense with one another. However, you responses seem more geared toward some sort of justification that "Science Olympiad is hard" or "the point of Science Olympiad is to challenge you" instead of simply answering the question, which is "WHAT STANDARDS ARE NATIONALS USING PER RULE 3i?!"