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S.O.A.R. Project Part 2

Option 1 (Problem Based Approach):
List 5 FACTS about the problem:
List 5 FACTS about previous solutions to the problem:
State your Hypothesis using a cause/effect statement (How would you solve the problem?):
What branch of Science does this problem involve?
Why is finding a solution to this problem important?
Option 2 (Information/Expository Approach):
What is the BIG IDEA of your project:
List 5 ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS that will be investigated? (The essential questions support the driving question/project topic)
What branch of Science does this topic involve?
Name 3 Scientists that are affiliated with this topic:
Why is informing an audience about this topic important?
Option 3 (Service Learning Approach):
Answer the following questions below and the questions/statements under S.M.A.R.T. in order to establish guidelines for your service learning project:
What is the SCIENTIFIC topic/connection of this Service Learning project?
What is the problem being addressed by this Service Learning project?
Specific: A specific goal has a much greater chance of being accomplished than a general goal. To set a specific goal you must answer the six “W” questions:
  • Who:Who is involved?
  • What:What do I want to accomplish?
  • Where:Identify a location where the community service will take place.
  • When:Establish a time frame.
  • Which:Identify requirements and constraints.
  • Why:Specific reasons, purpose or benefits of accomplishing the goal.
Measurable - Establish concrete criteria for measuring progress toward the attainment of each goal you set.
  • How will you measure whether or not this project helped others?
Attainable – When you identify goals that are most important to you, you begin to figure out ways you can make them come true. You develop the attitudes, abilities, skills, and financial capacity to reach them. You begin seeing previously overlooked opportunities to bring yourself closer to the achievement of your goals.
  • How will you know you have attained the goal?
Realistic- To be realistic, a goal must represent an objective toward which you are both willing and able to work. A goal can be both high and realistic; you are the only one who can decide just how high your goal should be. But be sure that every goal represents substantial progress.
  • How do you know it is realistic?
Timely – A goal should be grounded within a time frame. With no time frame tied to it there’s no sense of urgency. If you want to lose 10 lbs., when do you want to lose it by? “Someday” won’t work. But if you anchor it within a timeframe, “by May 1st”, then you’ve set your unconscious mind into motion to begin working on the goal.
  • Timetable of reaching your goal?

Option 4 (Scientific Method Approach):
Testable Question:
Hypothesis (cause/effect statement):
Independent Variable (What you are purposely changing): / Dependent Variable (What is measured):
Controlled Variables (What stays the same during the experiment?):
Explain how you are going to test your question:
  1. How are you going to obtain quantitative data (what tool/instrument will you use to make measurements)?
  1. Summarize your procedure. Use the back of this paper.

Draw your experiment set-up:
How many trials will you need to perform your experiment (minimum 5 trials? (In other words, how many times will you repeat your experiment to get an accurate “best value”?)

SOAR Project