Research Investigations Final Project

You will be creating an experiment using the scientific method.

You will need to take pictures of yourself testing your hypothesis along the way to prove that you have done the work.

You will need to create a presentation to deliver your hypothesis, variables, method of testing the hypothesis, and results. You can choose how you want to deliver that information. You may write a paper, create a display poster, PowerPoint/Google Slides/Prezi/EMaze presentation, etc.'


Grading Rubric

Research Investigations, Feb 17-19

Tuesday
Write around the room

Wednesday

• Finish sharing stories
• Creative writing prompt: Imagine you are a forensic scientist.  You have just come uponthe scene of a crime.  You found the following items at the crime scene:  a book, a broken pencil, chocolate milk, and some white out.  There is a note that says a famous author living at that home is missing.  Write a fictional story about what YOU think happened at the scene of this crime.  You will need to make up what happened to the author based on the evidence you have found.  Be as creative as you can.  BE APPROPRIATE!!!  The author is NOT dead-he is missing.  So….where is he and what happened?
• BY THE END OF THE HOUR:
• have at least one scenario brainstormed out

Research Investigations, Feb 8-12

Monday
Work Day

Tuesday
STEM works

Research Investigations, Feb 1 - 5

Project packet
Bell Work

Monday

1. Bell work
2. Project introduction
3. Day 1 questions
• Add: What are some of the guidelines for creating / completing a mandala?

Tuesday:

1. Bell work
2. Watch video (below) and video discussion
3. complete given mandala

Wednesday - Thursday:

1. Bell work
2. Watch video (below) and discussion
3. Create your own mandala 
• Drawing one on your own
• Using Adobe Photoshop 

Friday:

1. Bell Work 
2. Presentations 
• 3D printer items (take a picture of you and your item. Post it on your website with a short reflection of this process.)
• Mandalas on blogs 

3D printing files folder

R.I, Jan 11 - 15

Project 5 - Bridges
Week 5 - Bell work

Monday

• Intro to Bridges

R.I, Jan 4-8

Bellwork, week 4 




Project #4 - Machine to Make Art

R.I., Project #1

Parade Float

Research Investigations, Dec 7-11

Bellwork - Week 2

Monday - Wednesday
Kitchen Myth lab packet -- Check your email for the lab report document.

• This is a group project (If you wish it to be. You can always work on your own.)
• Choose a kitchen myth/fact/misconception that you could test.
• Write a hypothesis for the outcome of the experiment.
• Create the experiment. Use the sample lab report as a guide.

Wednesday - Friday
THIS IS AN INDIVIDUAL PROJECT
Science Friday - New Mode of Communication

• PNG Document to be tweeted: Create a document with a picture of your device (I would like you in the picture, but it is not required.) You will need a short description of how the device works. If you have a Twitter account, tweet it out with #messagechallenge #wearechargers. Also tag myself and CTA (@rosebud_mama and @ctachargers)

R.I, Nov 2-6

Monday

• Presentations
• Discuss zip line vs. glider

Tuesday:
Fact or Fiction? If you don't have a fan on when sleeping your risk of suffocation increases.

• Presentations
• Discuss zip line vs. glider

Wednesday:
Name an ancient invention still in use in most parts of the world today that allows people to see through walls.

• Presentations
• Discuss zip line vs. glider

Thursday

A farmer buys a horse for $60. He sells it to his neighbor for $70. Then he discovers he could have made a better deal. He borrows $10 from his wife and buys the horse back from the neighbor for $80. Then the farmer sells the horse to another neighbor for $90. How much did the farmer make? Answer here!

• presentations?
• paper airplanes!
• zip line project 

Oct 19-23, 2015

Bellwork for the week:

Monday - Who is your favorite musician or band? Why?

Tuesday - Quicksolve: Station Stickup

Wednesday - Quicksolve: Brotherly Love

Thursday - True/False with evidence. On the other side of the world, the toilets flush the SAME direction as here.

Friday - early release 

This week we are working on our Urban Planning project. 

Research Investigations, week 10

Monday
Snow Day

Tuesday
Students will be able to determine important details out of information given. Students will be able to successfully work in groups to solve the mysteries.

• In groups (assigned my Mrs. Rose) work together to answer the questions

Wednesday
Students will be able to demonstrate skills in determining details and working through word problems.

• Let's talk: Creative thinking! Come up with a creative back story for this photo!

• Assessment 
• What is a projectile launcher?
• NO FUEL
• NO ELECTRICITY
• NO FIRE

Thursday
Students will be able to successfully create a projectile launcher.

• Puzzle: Bill and Ben are identical twins. They are physically very alike, fit and healthy. They are both good runners and always run at the same speed. Each runs against the clock on the same track under the same conditions. Yet Ben takes ten times longer to finish than Bill. Why?
• Project requirements designing
• Start step 1!

Friday
Students will be able to successfully create a projectile launcher.

• Puzzle: A young couple was inspecting a house they were considering buying. In the middle of the kitchen floor they found a single brick. The real estate agent did not know why it was there, nor did the builder, so they sent for the architect. He took the brick outside and threw it up into the air, whereupon the brick vanished from sight. What was happening?
• launcher design

Research Investigations, week 9

Monday
Students will be able to build a bridge that will withstand the class designed tests.
BRIDGE BUILDING DAY

Tuesday
Students will be able to reflect on their bridge creation - the process and the final product. Students will be able to test their bridges with the class designed tests.

• Before we test the bridges (and after your bridge is complete). Take a picture with you and your partner AND your bridge.
• Post the pictures to your web site and answer the questions:
• Why did you choose that design? 
• Why did you choose those materials? 
• How do you think that your bridge will hold up to our tests?
• BRIDGE TESTING DAY

Wednesday
Students will be able to reflect on their bridge creation - the process and the final product. Students will be able to test their bridges with the class designed tests.

• BRIDGE TESTING DAY
• Now that the bridges are tested, answer on your web page:
• How did your bridge fair in the tests? 
• What would you have done differently next time?

Thursday
Students will be able to 

Friday
Students will be able to 

Research Investigations, week 8

Monday
Students will be able to discuss the various aspects of bridge engineering and design.

1. Read through the web quest from last week
2. What did we find out about bridges?
3. How will we be able to test our bridges?
4. What was your favorite type of bridge that you researched?

How will we test our bridges??

Tuesday

Theodore is riding an ant under a bridge in France. He loves the ants in France
because they can walk on water. He also LOVES to eat and France has delicious
pastries and breads and cheeses.

Students will be able to digitally crop a picture of themselves into a bridge picture. Students will be able to creatively write about what they are doing in the picture.

1. Find your bridge picture and full length picture of yourself.
2. Open Pixlr Editor
3. Following the directions from Mrs. Rose, open the bridge picture, then the picture of you (IN THE SAME TAB) and cut your self out using the lasso tool. Cut and paste the image into the bridge picture. SAVE. 
4. Upload to your blog and creatively write about where you are and what you are doing on the bridge.
5. When  you are COMPLETELY done, help someone else.

Wednesday
Students will be able to identify the types of bridges in their pictures using information gathered in an earlier class. Students will be able to successfully create a venn diagram of the information in the picture and the information in the description provided.

1. Using the information in front of you (will be randomly assigned by Mrs. Rose) fill out the venn diagram sheet (paper or digital) to show similarities vs differences of the picture and description we completed yesterday.
2. Check with Mrs. Rose and start designing your bridge!

Thursday
Students will begin to construct bridges according to the design submitted and materials requested.
Bridge building time!!
Not building? PUZZLE TIME!!

Friday

Research Investigations, Week 7

Students will learn about science misconceptions.

Monday

• Work time:15 minutes
• Parade Floats
• Science Misconception presentations

Tuesday

• Parade Floats??
• Science Misconception presentations
• Science misconception questions

Wednesday

• Presentations

Thursday

• Presentations
• Narrows webquest

Friday

Research Investigations, week 6

Students will be able to create a movable parade float using only the materials provided. Students will be able to use research skills to present information on a science misconception. 

Monday

1. turn in language stories
2. Design a parade float
1. Create a parade - What are they celebrating? What is the name of the parade?
2. Design your person (toliet paper roll)
3. Your parade float will be graded on (1) whether or not it moves, (2) creativity - it is a parade float! -, and (3) the above parade info.

Tuesday

Web site

Now, find a science misconception of your own!

Wednesday

1. Parade floats: 15 minutes
2. Science misconception projects

Thursday

1. Parade floats: 15 minutes
2. Science misconception projects

Friday

1. Presentations!
1. Languages
2. Parade floats - do they move?
3. Science misconceptions.

Research Investigations, week 5

This week, I will:

1. test my egg catching contraption.
2. create a language and story using that language.

Monday

• Egg drop - round 1
• write a story with the starting sentence: "Once upon a time, there was a clumsy engine mechanic who collected space trash."

Tuesday

• Share stories
• Egg drops - round 2, 3, 4
• Language creation time

Wednesday

• Problem of the day: grab the worksheet
• Who done it? videos
• Language creation time

Thursday

• Reflection - Naked Egg Drop
• Language creation time

Friday

• Problem of the day: grab the worksheet
• Language creation time

Research Investigations, week 4

Monday
Why is it that, in general, the hair on a man's head goes grey before the hair in his moustache does?

• Any presentations for "Who done it?"
• Naked Egg Drop

Tuesday

Two naturalists were walking in the country. They were both keen to protect the environment and to conserve nature and wildlife. One said to the other, "I was impressed by the way that you hit the bird." The second replied, "Yes, it was as good as that large bird that you hit earlier." What were they talking about?

• Egg Drop

Wednesday

• Egg drop
• When you are done:
• 1 snowflake (optional)
• Find an origami object you would like to create and send the instructions to Mrs. Rose (optional)
• CODE
• Code.org
• Code Academy 

Thursday
A man lives on the twelfth floor of an apartment building. Every morning he takes the elevator down to the lobby and leaves the building. In the evening, he gets into the elevator, and, if there is someone else in the elevator -- or if it was raining that day -- he goes back to his floor directly. Otherwise, he goes to the tenth floor and walks up two flights of stairs to his apartment. Why?

• CODE! Go to code.org, scratch.com, or codeacademy.com for activities
• Start next week's project - Ask Mr. Washington for the sheet with directions

Friday

There are six eggs in the basket. Six people each take one of the eggs. How can it be that one egg is left in the basket?

• Egg projects
• Work on next week's project

Research Investigations, week 3

Monday - Thursday

• Work on the "Who did it?" unit project
• Directions
• You may present this any way you wish (movie, poster, paper, create your own song, etc.)
• You still have to adhere to the school policies when creating your crime scenes.
• Use the crime problem we did as a class as an example.

Wednesday

Paper snowflake

Friday

Origami 

Group 1 Crime Scene

Group 2 Crime Scene

Who dunnit?

Research Investigations, week 1

Monday

• Contract builder

Tuesday - Snow Day

Wednesday

• Inferences