Flooding
Rivers
Timeline
Some
Hints on Finishing on Time
Frequently Asked Questions Answered
- Start
with your focused question and decide what your final product will be
written
report, PowerPoint presentation, oral presentation, charts, web page..
- To
get from where
you start to your final product what do you need to do?
- More
background information, research in the library or on the web, contact
with experts, contact with groups, field work and data collection, analysis
of research, writing up drafts of reports, final drafts, web page work,
PowerPoint work, scripts for presentation.
- Put
your list
in order, i.e. what do you need to do first, second third..
- Some
of this order will change as you go on.
- Your
question may change some as you find out information.
- You
will have to include things you forgot to do
- Estimate
about how long each part of the project.
- This
is an estimate not an exact time, so you will need to be flexible
- Start
with the final date of the project and work backwards to set benchmarks when
the parts need to be finished.
- When
do you have to start the PowerPoint to get it done in time? When do you
have to start the final draft of the written report to get it done? When
does your field work have to be done to analyze the data for the report?
When does your web and library research have to be done to start your
draft of the report?
- Think
backwards and put a due date by each step you can.
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These dates are your benchmarks to keep you on schedule.
- Be
flexible with the benchmarks, but also remember that the ending date is not
flexible and everything you do has to fit into the time from today until we
are done.
- This
project can not be done in a single day or week or month. If you are not
meeting your deadlines, you need to work harder, assign more homework,
change your question or project to expand or decrease the scope or finally
and the last resort move your benchmarks if possible.
- If
you decide to move one benchmark will it effect other benchmarks?
- If
you use a "table" on the computer such as the one below you can
add rows if you need
to add project items.
- When
you
do add a new item save your updated timeline as a new version so that
you can track the progress of your project.
- You
need all versions of the timeline.
- It
is not a mistake to add a new row after you get started, it is a mistake
to not save the old version of the timeline.
Sample Timeline Chart
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Benchmark (Date to complete)
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Date Completed
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Make as many rows as you need to accommodate all the important
components to complete
At the least you should have
a calendar with dates to have work completed
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Created for the Fermilab
LInC program sponsored by Fermi National
Accelerator Laboratory Education Office
and Friends of Fermilab, and
funded by United States Department of Energy,
Illinois State Board of Education,
North Central Regional Technology in Education
Consortium which is operated by North Central
Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL), and the National
Science Foundation.
Author(s): Miles Robinson (mrobinson@cranbrook.edu),
Brian Schad (schad@aaps.k12.mi.us
)
Cranbrook Schools, Kingswood Girl's Middle
School, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and Lawton
Elementary Ann Arbor, Michigan
Created: February 15, 2001 - Updated: April 18, 2001
URL: /lincon/w01/projects/yourfoldername/student.html