This document outlines the research project requirements for 4th year ESO students. It explains that students will work in teams to research and present a topic of their choosing. They have from February to June to complete documentary and experimental research, create a written report, and give an oral presentation. The project aims to develop students' independence, initiative, cooperation and collaboration skills. It will be evaluated based on the written report, oral presentation, and attitude/effort shown during the research process.

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