What is Appropriate Parental Involvement?

• Offer encouragement and support
• Assist in gathering materials and supplies
• Provide opportunities to seek information from outside sources
• Offer help in developing a project task timeline
• Monitor the progress of the project along the timeline
• Supervise experimental procedures to ensure that appropriate safety protocols are followed
• Review student efforts and provide appropriate feedback

• Constructing, designing, and/or assembling apparatus used in an experiment except where safety is a consideration (e.g., soldering, operating power equipment)
• Gather data or conducting experimentation
• Creating the visual presentation and display