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Project Description: The scientific method is a unique system. It gives researchers an opportunity to examine experimentations logically and to view situations at an array of angles. This same tool can also be utilized in life because some people have difficulties making life decisions, for instance, balancing checkbooks, purchasing a car, or deflating life situations. In this project, the scientific method will be implemented and integrated in the content areas of math, language arts, art, social science, and character education. Students will see what effect the scientific method has on their lives as reason using a logical format to solve real life issues. This creative process is designed to investigate situations using higher order thinking skills. It will allow students to gain further insight into their challenges while giving students a chance for exploration to comprehend and solve life issues. |
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Project
Goals: Essential
Question: How does the scientific method relate to life? Specific
Questions What steps of the
scientific method are important to life? Compare and
contrast life experiences that you have observed What life
experiences can you test? Why are life
experiences important? How would you
change the conclusion of one experiment? How could a life
experience be transformed into a science experiment? Performance
Actions: Access: Reflect
about past experiences. Gather
information life experiences from around the world. Review
vocabulary words. Read
aloud passages to comprehend meaning. Listen
to examples and analogies of the scientific method. Interpret: Infer meaning
from text for understanding. Compare and
contrast the characteristics of the main characters using the scientific
method. Analyze the
problem of the main characters. Resolve the issues of main characters using the scientific method. Produce: Construct and
develop a science experiment using artifacts from the story. Write a fable
about the artifacts used in the science experiment. Depict how
(science) fables relate with life experiences. Invent a media
guide for character education. Communicate: Portray main
characters and their characteristics. Communicate to
the audience the problems that the characters are having. Express to the
audience how problems were solved. Using the following mediums: play,
pictures, computer interaction. Evaluate: Evaluate main
characters characteristics and improve their judgment or reasoning Test
(hypothesis)/artifacts to produce a science experiment Critique life
experiences to generate new outcomes.
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Illinois and CPS Learning Standards
Performance Tasks: Last year the CEO
of the Chicago Public Schools, Arnie Duncan, created The New Reading
Initiative. The program is designed to strengthen your reading skills and
increase reading scores. The program has four reading components, which
consist of reading fluency, comprehension, writing, and word knowledge.
This year,
Arnie Duncan added the scientific method as another component to the New
Reading Initiative. He chose
our school to pilot his new idea. In addition he gave us a list of books,
which our teachers will guide us to use the seven steps of the scientific
method to investigate the problem of the characters. You and your teachers
will also use artifacts within the text to conduct a science experiment.
Arnie
Duncan also wants us to help him create a character education media guide.
For each conflict that a character/s faces, you will identify and write the
problem, using the following character education traits to create a new
solution. The character traits are: honesty, compassion, justice, courage,
generosity, perseverance, self-discipline, responsibility, caring, and
respect. Also, you will use
your imagination to develop your own medium.
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