1. Legal (State & Federal Law As Well As District Policy See Pamphlet)

iSearch Project

Topic: ______

Name: ______

Period: ______

Hurst 2016

Overview:

I-Search is an individual research project that is intended to be like a mini-senior project. You do the research and experience the topic as best you can. When selecting a topic, you have the following 3 requirements:

1. Legal (state & federal law as well as district policy—see pamphlet)

2. Parent permission to complete the topic/project

3. Something you have never done before

Activity /

Date Completed

/ Deadline / EXTRA PTS
iSearch possibilities w/ initials / 2/3 / /10
Interesting question approved / 2/5 / /10
Topic Selection Reflection / 2/10 / /15
Proposal Approved / 2/18 / /20
Proposal Reflection / 2/19 / /10
Action Plan Approved / 2/25 / /15
Action Plan Reflection / 2/26 / /10
Research Completed
(Source Notes x5) / 3/10 / /25
Annotated Bibliography / 3/17 / /20
Section One Prewrite / 3/21 / /10
Section One Thesis Development / 3/24 / /10
Rough Draft of Research Paper/1st Section of Paper Due / 3/26 / /20
Time Documentation √ 1 (journals showing min. 2 hrs) / 4/7 / /10
Rough Draft of Process Analysis Paper/2nd Section Due / 4/8 / /25
Process Analysis Reflection / 4/9 / /10
Final Time Documentation (journals) / 4/14 / /10
Rough Draft of Reflection/3rd Section of Paper Due / 4/21 / /25
Presentation Outline Due / 5/2 / /15
Presentation on Computer / 5/5
Presentation Binder / Starts 5/13 / /50
Presentation Date / Starts 5/13 / /75

(1 pt. extra credit for each school day earlier than deadline up to max. 5 pts. ANY late assignments make you ineligible for extra credit. Late assignments lose 15% per day.)

iSearch Possibilities

For each of the possibilities, answer the following questions:

How is this new to you? Specifically what will you be learning?
What do you need to be successful?
Who might you go to for assistance? (specific names or titles, for ex: a music teacher)
What information do you need to discover to fully understand your topic?
How much time will it take to accomplish the tasks you need to complete?

Then take this home and discuss these ideas with your parent(s) or guardian(s). They need to initial each idea they would support you doing.

IDEA #1______approve

IDEA #2______approve

IDEA #3______approve

IDEA #4______approve

IDEA #5______approve

Self-Directed Project Topic Ideas

Do not limit yourself to this list!

Do not assume that all project ideas on this list will be approved – it will depend on your proposal.

Acoustic Guitars: The Better Way To Go
Acquire personal trainers license
Alzheimer’s patients and care
Animation
Architectural model
Art Class/ Drawing
Attend AA meetings
Auto body work
Automotive enhancement
Baby Signing Class for Tiny Sparts parents
Baseball clinic
Bass guitar lessons
Body work/painting a car
Building a composting toilet
Build a computer
Build a Deck
Build a guitar
Build a Parade Float
Build a porch
Build an air conditioner
Build an ambient device
Build cabinets for the Band Room
Building a chain mail “coif”/helmet from medieval time
Building a fuel cell and testing
Building a mini-bike
Building a model city/ civil engineering
Building a modular house
Building a pond
Building a remote controlled airplane
Building a shed
Building a VW Bug
Building a fishing pole
Buying a used car
Canada vs. USA drug cost
Car repair
Caring for abused animal/animal rescue
Children’s literary, volunteer at Library
reading to children
Choreograph a pyrotechnic display using a
software program
Class on scuba diving
Classic car restoration/rebuild
Clothing Design
Coach a little league team
Coaching a kids basketball team
Coaching basketball to kids
Coaching Youth Basketball
Coaching Youth Hockey Team
Coaching: Special Olympics
Community Building at AHS
Community cultural fair
Composing a piece of music
Concert business- Job shadow
Concert Fundraiser for “Nativity House” / Conduct a dance class for young kids
Conduct a fashion show/ cancer society
fundraiser
Conducting experiment: E-Coli in rain runoff, Science Fair vol.
Construct a bike frame
Constructing outfits from the 50’s and today
Convert engine from carb to fuel injection
Coordinate youth and elderly project
Coordinating a benefit
Choreographing a dance
Create a computer program
Create activities for residents at a retirement
center
Create am anime cartoon
Create music on electronic equipment
Creating and protein supplements
Creating a report in Porcine stress
Syndrome from submission to a scientific
journal
Creating a video game character
Creating and setting up an aquarium
Dance
Demonstrating the effects of music on the
heart
Design and build a greenhouse
Design and make a quilt
Design and make clothes
Design and make own prom dress
Design/sew prom dress
Designing a website for AP biology
Designing nicotine awareness/presenting
Documentary of Bipolar disorder
Dog therapy assistance through Delta society
Drawing/Computer animation
Drug affected infants/PICC center volunteer
Drug enforcement agent
Eating and exercise
English as a second language Asia
Enter body building contest
Entrepreneurship
Fitness program and training
Fix steering and suspension of a vehicle
Forensic Dentistry
Forensic Science- Finger Printing Clinic
Fund raiser- breast cancer
Getting emergency response equipment in
SSD
Give piano lessons
Growing shitake mushrooms
Guitar Lessons/ playing at a senior center
Helping in a disabled classroom
Holding a senior prom for a nursing home
Homeless volunteer / How much do you really know about
cancer?
Hypnotherapist apprentice
Improvisation workshop for Jr. High
Infomercial on Advertising
Infomercial on Advertising
Installing a car stereo system
Installing a supercharge in a car
Instrument Ground School Course and
survey (pilots)
Interior design (upstairs living room)
Japanese calligraphy
Japanese style artwork
Judo coaching
Landscaping your yard
Learn about medicinal plans/herbal remedies
Learn the Violin
Learn to oil paint
Learn to play bass guitar
Learn to play the piano
Learn to play the guitar
Learn to ride a unicycle
Learn yoga
Learning Karate
Learning to fence
Learning to fly fish
Learning to play to blues guitar
Life long benefits of martial arts
Make a CD
Make a middle ages styles dress for prom
Make a movie
Make an Interactive video Game
Make blankets for cancer patients
Making a duck call
Making a fishing rod by hand
Making a kimono
Manufactured carbon-fiber fins (Jet-Ski)
Marines
Martial Arts
Martial Arts
Math Technology
Military training
Modeling Portfolio
Modifying car engine
Mural based on cubist collage
Music Lessons
Natural childbirth classes
Observing and participating in Buddhism
Officiating wrestling &certification
Organize fundraisers for an orphanage
Organize Pow Wow
Organize volunteer activities w/youth
group
Organizing a poverty fund drive
Organizing a three on three baseball tournament for Parks & Rec. Dept.
Owning your own business
Paint and repair a car/ truck
Painting
Personal Exercise Program
Photography
Physical Conditioning
Piano Lessons
Plan a Fun Run
Play Guitar
Poetry Web Site
Prepare a car for painting
Pre-production work for shooting a film
Producing a music CD
Promote vegetarianism
Psychology experiment: relaxation & art
Put on a Benefit Concert
Putting on a fundraiser for a child with cerebral palsy
Qualify for Search & Rescue Team
Raise money for children in India
Rebuild a car engine
Rebuilding a dirt bike
Rebuilding a Jeep
Rebuilding a car/ truck engine
Recording a CD
Redecorate a basement
Redesign downstairs in a home
Redesigning a room
Remodeling a kitchen
Removing Graffiti
Re-painting a car
Repairing a Mountain Bike Trail
Reupholstering a Van
Rhythm and Melody: Medicine of the Mind
Run a Baseball Camp for elementary kids
Run a Baseball Camp
Run clothing drive for Women’s Shelter
Running a Marathon
SADS Syndrome- Weather & Depression
Scrap booking
Setting a Spelling Bee for Elementary
Sewing a quilt
Sewing a traditional Indian dress
Showing pigs at NWJLS
Sleep Deprivation & Effects Study / Special Needs Children and Therapy
Sport Evolution/building a wake board
Start a Random Acts of Kindness Club
Starting a Power washing business
Starting and running an advertising business
Survey Pilot Simulator Training Course
Swapping the motor on a Honda Civic
Take a floral design class
Take Cooking Class
Take Investing Class & create stock portfolio
Take Police Explorers Program
Taking a Beginning Photography Class
Taking a Criminology Class/ Police Ride-A- Long
Taking a Martial Arts Class
Taking a Yoga Class
Taking Community Law Enforcement Class
Taking Guitar Class
Taking Photography Class/ photographs
Taking Real Estate Certification Course
Taking Voice Lessons
Teach A.S.L.
Teach English to Spanish students
Teach French to 1st & 6th grade students
Teach Japanese to students
Teach Violence Prevention to children
Teaching a dance class and putting on a benefit dance
Teaching a Computer Programming Class
Teaching Business Basics Classes to elementary students
Teaching an Elementary classroom
Teaching English in Ecuador
Teaching Golf Lessons to a beginner/brochure
Teaching Guitar Lessons
Teaching Music Lessons
Teaching Sunday School
Teaching Voice Lessons & Performance
The differences between Dental Hygienist & Dental Assistant
The importance of Color in Life and Design
Traditional Cancer Treatments – Job shadowing nurse practice
Train for and run a ½ mile marathon
Train puppy to be a Therapy Dog
Training and diet creation and implementation / Training Canines for the disabled
Training for and working at a crisis hotline
Tutoring in an elementary school
Tutoring a Math student
Understanding Sound Therapy
Upgrading engine performance in a car
Using a pattern and making a skirt/outfit
Volunteer help in Gay/Straight Association activities
Underwater Match-Striking
Volunteer at a Home Care Facility
Volunteer at a Homeless Shelter
Volunteer at a Hospital
Volunteer at a Nursing Home
Volunteer at an Animal Shelter
Volunteer at Good Sam w/ sick children
Volunteer at Hospices in Africa
Volunteer at Point Defiance Zoo
Volunteer at Tracy Castle (Wedding Planner)
Volunteer at Vet Hospital
Volunteer at Hospital Children’s Recovery Unit
Volunteer at Special Olympics
Volunteer with disadvantaged children
Volunteer with Foster Care Program
Volunteer with local Food Banks
Volunteering at Pediatric Medical Clinic
Volunteering at a Community Home for Disabled Adults
Welding a trailer
Women’s Shelter
Work with a professional Photographer
Work with Homeless People
Working with an Aid Out Reach Program
Working at a Group Home
Working at Food Bank/ Dinners
Working at World Vision with a focus on AIDS
Working in a Mental Health System
Working out to improve body image
Working out with a personal trainer
Working with Breast Cancer Patients
Working with the hearing impaired
Working/ Volunteering with local Beauty Pageants
Writing a controversial children’s book
Writing and self publishing a book of Poetry
Writing a children’s book on cancer
Writing children’s book
Writing for Music Website

Interesting Question Sheet

Name ______Topic ______

Interesting Question (IQ)

An IQ is a question that helps you write a good research paper. It will guide your research. It is what you want to know about your topic, not what you are doing for your topic.

1. Asks you to think about what’s interesting to you

2. Asks you to think about what topic would be rich and important for your research paper

3. Requires at least one paragraph to answer.

These are NOT interesting questions:

1. How many NBA championships did the Chicago Bulls win with Michael Jordan?

2. Do you have to be “jumped” to join a gang?

3. How many kinds of marijuana are there?

These ARE suitable interesting questions:

1. How does an athlete make it to the NBA?

2. How long does it take a person to write a novel?

3. What is the difference between an IMAX movie and a regular movie?

4. How do ventriloquists throw their voices?

So, what is the question you are trying to answer about your topic? Play with different ideas below. Give me at least five different possibilities.

YOUR FINAL ANSWER (I mean question): ______

______

Topic Selection Reflection

Now take a minute to think about the topic selection process. Why did you choose this particular topic? Here are some questions to ponder in writing your response (at least one full page):

Why you are interested in the topic & what is the history of your interest in it?
What do you have to gain, personally, by studying this subject?
Why would knowledge of this topic be valuable to you?
Are there people you know, experiences you have had, and things you have seen that connect you to this topic?
Do you have any theories or opinions you already have about your subject, including your sense of what you expect to find out?

______

English 10 iSearch Project Proposal

Project Title / Project Approved? Yes or No
Student Name / Teacher Signature:

Proposal form must be approved BEFORE project work is started.

Signatures below verify approval of the topic and an understanding of what is involved in the completion of this project. Project will not be approved without these signatures.

Student Signature: ______

Parent Signature______

Description of the project:
(What will you do: create, design, investigate, build, learn, produce, etc.?)
Significance of the project:
– Explain how or why this is a learning stretch for you. What will you know when you are finished that you don’t know now? What makes this project worth doing? This is important because you are defending the validity of your project.
Describe your product: What evidence will you have to prove to the judges that you have completed your project? (Examples: a prom dress, a video, a photo journal)
Steps to Completion:
From start to finish, list the steps that are necessary to complete this project. Make this easier by breaking your project into 8-10 reasonable sized steps, rather than just a few major tasks. This is the most important part of this form!
For each step circle the P or the N:
P = prior knowledge or skill: from prior experiences, classes – things you already know how to do
N = new knowledge or skill: developed through the process of completing this project

P/N Upon proposal approval, complete and submit action plan.

P/N Upon action plan approval,

Describe final learning goals and outcomes:
(What will you understand and/or be able to do as a result of this project?)

Proposal Reflection

Now take a minute and think about the proposal. How did it go? What would you do differently as a senior? Did you allow yourself enough time? What was difficult about this? What was easy? What did you learn about yourself while doing/or after writing this proposal?

______

Action Plan/Timeline

For each goal or outcome listed on your project proposal:

List the steps (tasks) necessary to achieve the goal
Resources you will need to achieve the goal
Start and End Dates for each step/goal
Proof you have attained your goal.

Steps to complete / Resources / Start Date / End Date / Proof

Action Plan Reflection

Now take a minute and think about the action plan. How did it go? What would you do differently as a senior? Did you allow yourself enough time? What was difficult about this? What was easy? What did you learn about yourself while doing/or after writing this proposal?

______

Source Notes and Evaluation:(min. 5 sources: maximum of three Internet, two of the five must be available in print somewhere; no more than two websites; have at least one interview & one personal experience: observation, actually do it. Include proof, for example fliers, ticket stubs, papers, etc.)

Title of information/Name of interviewee: ______

Other Possible Information Needed for Citing

Author: / Editor:
Publication appeared in: / Edition:
City published in: / Publisher:
Date published: / Page number(s):
Source: / Date accessed

Notes:

Why is this source credible? (author expertise, documentation of original source, date of publication, bias?)

Why is this source valuable? (relationship to thesis, what makes it better than other options)

Source Notes and Evaluation #2:(min. 5 sources: maximum of three Internet, two of the five must be available in print somewhere; no more than two websites; have at least one interview & one personal experience: observation, actually do it. Include proof, for example fliers, ticket stubs, papers, etc.)

Title of information/Name of interviewee: ______

Other Possible Information Needed for Citing

Author: / Editor:
Publication appeared in: / Edition:
City published in: / Publisher:
Date published: / Page number(s):
Source: / Date accessed

Notes:

Why is this source credible? (author expertise, documentation of original source, date of publication, bias?)

Why is this source valuable? (relationship to thesis, what makes it better than other options)

Source Notes and Evaluation #3:(min. 5 sources: maximum of three Internet, two of the five must be available in print somewhere; no more than two websites; have at least one interview & one personal experience: observation, actually do it. Include proof, for example fliers, ticket stubs, papers, etc.)

Title of information/Name of interviewee: ______

Other Possible Information Needed for Citing

Author: / Editor:
Publication appeared in: / Edition:
City published in: / Publisher:
Date published: / Page number(s):
Source: / Date accessed

Notes:

Why is this source credible? (author expertise, documentation of original source, date of publication, bias?)

Why is this source valuable? (relationship to thesis, what makes it better than other options)

Source Notes and Evaluation #4:(min. 5 sources: maximum of three Internet, two of the five must be available in print somewhere; no more than two websites; have at least one interview & one personal experience: observation, actually do it. Include proof, for example fliers, ticket stubs, papers, etc.)