Week 1
- Choose a topic to investigate or explore
- Make a list of resources (school library,
community library, places to write, people to interview)
- Select necessary reading material
- Begin preliminary investigations
Week 2
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Continue
library work
- Start a notebook for keeping records
- Begin sketching preliminary designs for your
display
- Ask
lots of questions
- Set up any experimental designs
Week 3
- Complete initial research
- Interview experts (teachers, parents, etc.) for
more information
- Contact community people as necessary
- Decide how to set up your display unit
- Decide what materials you will use in the
display
- Read materials and other necessary resources
Week 4
- Collect or buy materials for your display
- Begin setting up your experiment or
demonstration
- Continue adding information to project notebook
- Work on photographs or illustrations of the
display
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Week 5
- Organize any necessary apparatus
- Continue recording observations in your
notebook
- Set up final outline for written report
- Work on first draft of written report
Week 6
- Start assembling display unit
- Continue recording notes
- Check books, pamphlets, magazines for
additional ideas
- Verify information with experts (teachers,
professors, scientists, parents)
Week 7
- Begin designing charts, graphs or other visual
aids for the display unit
- Complete experiment or collection
- Take final photographs and have them developed
- Write second draft of the report
- Record final observations on any experiment
- Prepare signs, titles, and labels for display
unit
- Consult with any experts
Week 8
- Complete graphs, charts, and visual aids
- Finish constructing your display
- Type or print final draft of written report
- Mount graphs, charts, drawings, photographs
- Assemble components of the display; check
- Proofread your written report
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