How Safe Is Your Backyard ?
Guided Questions
Getting
Started
- Is the main idea
of the project understood by your team?
- Have you reviewed
all your materials concerning the project?
- What is the function
of your group?
- What are the steps
your group will take in completing the project?
- Has anyone contacted
any schools in order to determine how many schools will be participating?
- Has anyone spoken
via email to any of the students from the schools' participation
list?
- Has determination
been made on when the project will be started?
- Have the schools
agreed on a site where the soil and water samples are going to
be collected?
- How is the collection
going to take place?
- How much soil and
water is needed for the testing of the samples?
- What kind of a setup
will you use for the soil collection?
- What are the materials
you will need to complete the project?
- What safety procedures
are you going to follow?
- Will you be using
all your senses to make your observations before the testing takes place?
- Will you make notes
on any interesting things you may observe?
- If you take a core
sample, is the top different than the bottom?
- Are there any color
changes in the sample?
- What are some different
types of materials you observed?
- Are there any living
organisms in the samples?
- Will you be separating
and identifying what is found?
- Will each specimen
have its own container?
- Will your group be
drawing a picture or making up a chart of your findings?
- What are the tests
you will be performing?
- How will you proceed
to do the testing?
- Are you following
safety procedures?
- Which materials in
your samples show evidence of living things?
- Which materials in
your samples may have come from living things?
- Which materials in
your samples have probably not come from living things?
- Where might some
of the materials in your samples have come from?
- Are there any materials
not identifiable?
- What materials are
near the top of the samples?
- What materials tend
to be near the bottom of the samples?
- Which materials seem
to be distributed throughout the samples?
- Is it possible to
map out the profiles of an area and piece them together on a
chart?
Going
Further
- Think
about the sites that were chosen to take the samples. Suppose
you picked a different location.
- Do
you think the results would be the same? Explain.......
- Do
you think the results would be different? Explain.......
- Is
it possible to make a prediction?
- What
are some ways you can prove the prediction?
- How
do you think the soil and water formed?
- What
are the main components for each sample?
- How
do the soil and water fit in with the Earth as a system?
- What
kinds of natural events or human activities could destroy the
soil and water?
- How
is it possible to find out more about soil and water?
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Created for the NTEP II 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): Rosanne
Fabiny
School: Albert E. Grice Middle School, Hamilton Township,
New Jersey
Created: September 9, 1998 - Updated:
November 10, 2001
URL: /ntep/f8/projects/pppl/backyard/student3questions.html