presentació del pdrsafa 2018/19

1. RESERCH PROJECT
COURSE 2018-2019
4th
ESO
Teachers: ALBERT CASTRO
ANNA GREGORI

2. The mind is like a parachute, it
works only if it’s open.
Albert Einstein

3. WHAT IS THE RESEARCH PROJECT?
• It is a subject of 4th ESO which is considered as
optative.
• Students must carry out a team work based on
research.
• 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
WHOM?
• When? The first semester of the year
(September-January). On Wednesday
afternoon.
• Where? In the classroom, the library, the
computer room, laboratory, at home, on
the street ...
• With whom? With two teachers (one
specialized in Science and another one in
Humanistics) 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. DOCUMENTATION 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 DOCUMENTATION
• Internet
• libraries
• Newspapers
• media libraries
• Other sources
• Information organization

9. 2.2. EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH
• Time organization
• Observations and experiments
• Interviews
• surveys
• Visits to schools
• Other ideas
• 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 20 minuts

12. 4. EVALUATION
40% Written report
40% Oral presentation
20% Attitude

13. 4. EVALUATION
• Attitude
Valued at each session and blog (index
cards documentation and experimental
research...)
https://pdrsafa2018.blogspot.com/

14. • Each team member can have a different rating.
• The qualification criteria are as follow:
• Projects that meet the evaluation criteria have a rating of
FT (done).
• Projects that do not follow the evaluation criteria will get
a rating of NF (not done).
• The projects that contain or add other elements apart
from the ones mentioned before will get a rating of FA
(made with advantage).
4. EVALUATION

15. SCHEDULE
• SEPTEMBER 12: Introduction
• SEPTEMBER 19, 26 and OCTOBER 3: Choose the
subject index and scheme of work. Document
research
• OCTOBER 17, 24 and NOVEMBER 14:
Experimental Research
• NOVEMBER 21, 28 and DECEMBER 5, 12:
Editorial written report and oral presentation
preparation
• TUESDAY JANUARY 8: report presentation (Blog)
• JANYARY 9, 16, 23,30: Oral