1. Group 4 Project 2010-2011 R. Massey, R. Holmes, K. Harris Tigard High School

2. Content What is the Group 4 Project? IB requirements Timeline Topics and Teams What is expected of you Storyboard for presentation Personal Skills and documentation

3. What is the Group 4 Project? Group 4 subjects (the sciences) base understanding on experiment – emphasis of this project is on the process of a scientific investigation Emphasis is on interdisciplinary cooperation and collaboration – each discipline brings a special perspective and expertise to the group Sole IB assessment of Personal Skills

4. IB Group 4 Requirements (the “why” you are doing this) Demonstrate ICT (Information and Communication and Technology) skills Address moral, ethical, social, economic, and environmental implications of using science and technology Show how the different disciplines all relate to a single scientific issue Show you can use the processes of the scientific method

5. Time Line Planning Stage – 2 hrs After selecting a focused topic, the activities to be carried out must be clearly defined before moving to action phase Action Stage – 6 hrs Evaluation Stage – 2 hr Powerpoints, videos, scale models etc. will be presented in an after-school symposium on March 13, 2012

6. Planning Stage

7. Teachers divide students into groups Teachers supply topic(s) First Meeting Students choose focused topic (define the problem) and develop action plan –Background Data base research (ICT) Contact People & Organizations (ICT) –Experiment or scale model (ICT)

8. Planning Stage – Action Plan Second Meeting Choose meeting leader and recorder Brainstorm on possible factors and approaches What are the issues for biology, chemistry, physics? Narrow this down to specific issue(s) to be investigated Who will do what? By when? With what help?

9. Main Topic: A Greener THS? Subtopics: Growing plants on THS roof tops Cooling by waterfalls down the sides of buildings Composting at THS (leaves/grounds waste/food) Solar cells on THS roof tops

10. Teachers are choosing teams this year. This is to ensure that each group has someone from each discipline and to better assess teamwork skills. Teams

11. Team 1 Kayley Broyles – Biology Courtney Bither – Chemistry Amy Roluffs – Chemistry Galen Andrico - Physics Team 2 Carlie Jones-Hershinow – Biology Jack Brown – Chemistry Andrew Roluffs – Chemistry Cara Mitchell - Physics

12. Team 3 Breanna Laurente – Biology Jazmin Diaz – Chemistry Megan Roluffs – Chemistry Isabel Harger - Physics Team 4 MacKenzie Smith – Biology/Chemistry Grant Van Dyke - Biology Donna Kayal – Chemistry Isabella Lewis – Physics/Biology

13. Team 5 Jacqueline Yoke – Biology Rochelle Glover - Biology Alac Malnati – Chemistry Diana Perez - Chemistry Kevin Li – Physics

14. Team 6 Aran Lenart – Biology Natalie Leon - Biology Haylee Winden – Chemistry Joshua Zheng - Chemistry Michelle Vollmuller – Physics

15. Action Stage Carry out action plan Make contacts Build scale model Consider costs and impacts

16. Evaluation Put together power-point presentation Include digital pictures, videos Load power-point onto Group 4 website At symposium, present power-point along with any other graphics or models

17. Story Board for Presentation We thought it would be helpful to give you a “story board” template to help you organize your project and presentation. This way, you will know what is expected of you and as you fill in the “blanks”.

18. Define the Project What are you doing?

19. Why are you doing it? See slide on IB requirements. What interests you about your choice of project (Anyone who says they are doing this just because it is an assignment will lose credit)

20. Why should people care about your project? What is the significance of your investigation?

21. What did you do? Outline or diagram the process in 1-6 slides Show how your investigative process fit into the scientific method: –identify problem –brainstorm ideas –focus problem –research background info –gather data (either by contacts or designing and conducting a scale model expt.) –present data –make conclusions –make recommendations

22. Who was on the team and what did each person do? 1-2 slides

23. How did your team specifically address issues from biology, chemistry, and physics Describe in 1-3 slides

24. What experts or outside data sources did you access? 1-3 slides

25. What model or experiment did you conduct? 1-3 slides with pictures

26. How did you specifically use ICT (information, communication, technology)? Data bases Communication with experts Data logging Spreadsheets Graphs and graphing software Digital images or video Presentation software

27. What did you discover? 3-5 slides Facts are friendly Show graphs, charts, data or quotes to support the outcome of your investigation.

28. Conclusions Bullet point summary of results

29. Why is this important? Bullet point explanation

30. Recommendatons Bullet points –Feasibility for THS –Costs –Environmental impacts –Safety issues –Social implications –Moral and ethical concerns (?)

31. Personal Skills

32. Approach a project with self- motivation and follow it through to completion Ability to work with others in a group situation and integrate the views of others Show awareness of your own strengths and weaknesses and learn about yourself from this experience

33. Self-motivation and follow- through to completion You are expected to get your assigned tasks done “yesterday” Non-completion reflects poorly on the entire group One person or a subset of the group doing most, if not all, of the work reflects poorly on the entire group

34. Work with others in a group situation and integrate the views of others You MUST demonstrate that you can work in a team situation Collaboration with input from all disciplines is a key success factor You MUST show consideration from all disciplines

35. Self-reflection of your own strengths and weaknesses and how you put yourself outside your comfort zone This project is designed to be a learning experience You are expected to tackle some personal weakness

36. Personal Skills - Documentation Each participant is required to hand in a confidential paper with documentation of specific examples on how you personally met or did not meet these personal skills goals