What I Must
Do
to Earn
all the Points Possible
Water Sample |
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- Collect a water sample from home or school
- Record the data about the water sample in the class file.
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Project Plan |
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- Complete a written draft of my project plan.
- Revise my draft project plan and receive a "stamp of
approval" from the teacher.
- My approved project plan includes:
- a question about water
- the purpose of my investigation
- a prediction about what I may find out about my question
- the reason I made the prediction
- at least three ideas for finding answers
- a list of tools I may need to investigate my question
- a task timleline
- a draft and a revised copy of my project plan.
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Technical Skills |
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- Complete the Technology Skills Inventory, before I start
my research
- Log onto the WWW, without help
- Send e-mail
- Use a word processing program, at least three text formatting
tools from its menu-bar, and its outline format
- Launch a database and input my sample data
- Again, complete the Technology Skills Inventory, after I
turn in my final written report
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Project Journal |
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- Write in my journal twice each week
- Record some problems and their solutions
- Include things that I learned; with details
- Include the date of each entry
- Hand in my journal on time and keep it up to date
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Field Trip Summary |
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- Begin with a topic sentence
- Explain with detail, how water is delivered to my school
and home
- Include one key point that I learned
- Give my opinion about the speaker's talk
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Written Report |
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- Begin with a topic sentence
- Explain my prediction and tell whether or not it was correct
- Write the steps I took to research my question
- Explain how knowing this new information will make a difference
in the way I think about or use water.
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Oral
Report |
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- Use an outline to speak from
- Begin with my introduction
- State the purpose of my oral report
- Summarize what I learned
- Offer to answer questions
- Use no more than 3 minutes to finish my oral report
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