PDR Col·legi Sagrada Família Sabadell. Versió en anglès.

1. RESERCH PROJECT
COURSE 2016-2017
4th
ESO
Teachers: ALBERT CASTRO
ASSUM PÉREZ

2. The mind is like a parachute, used
only if it is open.
Albert Einstein

3. WHAT IS THE RESEARCH PROJECT?
• 4th ESO is a matter that is considered elective.
• Students must carry out a research project
team.
• The project has to be constituted by a set of
activities and discover research on a chosen
topic.
• Students must demonstrate independence,
initiative, cooperation and collaboration
capabilities.

4. WHEN? WHERE? WITH WHO?
• When? The second semester of the year
(February-June). On Thursday afternoon.
• Where? In the classroom, the library, the
computer room, laboratory, at home, on
the street ...
• With who? With two teachers (one
scientific and the other humanities) who
will support and track your work.

5. SCIENTIFIC METHOD
• OBSERVATION
• IDENTIFYING THE PROBLEM
• CREATING THE HYPOTHESIS
• TESTING THE HYPOTHESIS
– EXPERIMENT
– CREATE DIAGRAMS
• CONCLUSIONS

6. Stages of the project
1.PLANNING
2. RESEARCH
3. ANALYSIS-RESEARCH RESULTS
4. EVALUATION
2.1. DOCUMENTARY 2.2. EXPERIMENTAL
3.1. WORKING DOCUMENT 3.2. ORAL PRESENTATION

7. 1. PLANNING
• Choose your style
• Interim title and subtitle
• hypothesis
• objectives
• provisional index

8. 2.1. RESEARCH DOCUMENTARY
• Internet
• libraries
• Newspapers
• media libraries
• other
• Information organization

9. 2.2. EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH
• Time organization
• Observations and experiments
• Interviews
• surveys
• Visits to schools
• other
• Data Collection
• conclusions

10. 3.1. WORKING DOCUMENT
• Home
• Index
• Introduction
• Body of work
• conclusions
• Bibliography
• Appendix / Appendices

11. 3.2. Oral presentation
• preparation
• resources
• Presentation
• Theoretical framework
• practical framework
• conclusions

12. 4. EVALUATION
• 40% written report
• 40% Oral presentation and computer
support
• Attitude 20% (valued at each session:
index cards documentation and
experimental research ...)

13. • Each team member can have a different rating.
• The qualification criteria are as follows:
• Projects that meet the evaluation criteria have a rating of
6, 7 or 8.
• Projects that do not follow the evaluation criteria will be
mostly a rating of one to five.
• The projects, in addition to the criteria mentioned in this
document or the tutor incorporate other elements
suggested but not required, will have a rating of 9 or 10.
4. EVALUATION

14. SCHEDULE
• FEBRUARY 18 AND 25: Introduction and
knowledge
• MARCH 3, 10, 24: Choose the subject index and
scheme of work. document research
• March 31 and April 7 and 21: Experimental
Research
• April 28 and May 5 and 12: Editorial written
report and oral presentation preparation
• WEDNESDAY MAY 18: report presentation
• May 18 and 26 and June 2 and 9: Oral