1. 2014-2015 Richwoods High School
Group 4 Project
Richwoods 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 Action Stage – 6 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 class May Mr. Bowlby and other administrators will be invited.

6. Planning Stage

7. Planning Stage 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: The Science of Food

10. Teams
Students are choosing teams this year. Each group has to have people representing chemistry and biology.

11. Action Stage
Carry out investigations
Conduct any research

12. Evaluation Put together power-point presentation
Include digital pictures, videos
Load power-point onto Group 4 section of my website
At symposium, present power-point along with any other graphics or posters

13. Story Board for Presentation
A template is provided 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”.

14. Define the Project
What are you doing?

15. 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)

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

17. 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

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

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

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

21. What experiment(s) did you conduct?
1-3 slides with pictures

22. 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

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

24. Conclusions
Bullet point summary of results

25. Why is this important?
Bullet point explanation

26. Personal Skills

27. Personal Skills
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

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

31. 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

32. Documentation for IB
Each participant is required to complete a summary of his/her work that will be submitted to IB as part of your official biology lab portfolio.