Assessment+Checklist


 * We Can Change the World Checklist**

_________ Step 1: Choose your topic. **DUE: Sept. Sept. 3** //Is your topic:// o A current environmental issue or problem? o An issue that affects your local community? o Important to all team members? o Able to be improved or influenced by students using science?

_________ Step 2: Research it: research the issue you’ve defined and write a statement that defines why and how it is a problem in your community. **DUE: Sept. 16** //Is your problem statement:// o Related to the selected topic? o Based on scientific data, information, or observation? In other words, do you have evidence that it’s a problem? o Able to be solved using a student-developed solution? o Specific enough that you can find a starting point to help solve it? Statements that are too broad can be somewhat unmanageable.

_________ Step 3: Plan it: brainstorm about and propose a feasible solution to positively impact your community problem, and then to plan how you will implement that change. Changes could be physical such as planting trees. They could be behavioral such as convincing local residents to use recycled bags at the grocery. Or they could be political such as persuading the local government to build a park. **DUE: Oct. 6** //Is your solution:// o Based on science? o Doable? o Measurable? o Likely to impact or fix the problem?

//Does your plan:// o Seem realistic? o Include specific action steps? o Include all team members? o Involve members of your community? o Use scientific inquiry or a scientific approach? o Include how data will be collected or measured? o Include specifics on how you know that the plan is working? o Show a timeline for completion?

_________ Step 4: Plan it: get hands on and put your plan into action! Along the way, you should be collecting data, keeping thorough and accurate records, testing your ideas and hypothesis and making systematic observations about whether or not your solution is working. Share written descriptions of any notes, data tables, sketches, photographs or videos collected during the data collection step (only written text can be entered into the online application). **DUE: Nov.19** //Does your data:// o Show a complete record of all work done to date, what was or will be tested, when and what happened? o Include appropriate systems of measurement and observation based on the problem and proposed solution? o Include any adjustments to the plan that are made along the way?

_________ Step 5: Analyze it! You should be able to show what your testing revealed. At this point, you should know whether their solution impacted the problem you identified and how you know. **DUE: Dec. 2** //Does your analysis include:// o Measurable evidence of how the solution impacted or is expected to impact the problem? o Positive outcomes that were achieved or that you hope to achieve? o Challenges and how they were overcome and/or how you plan to overcome them? o What you learned and how you might do things differently?

_________ Step 6: Share it! You will summarize your problem, the solution you proposed to impact it, and how you implemented and tested your solution. You will also share the time and resources that the process required, what you learned along the way and what you would recommend doing differently. **DUE: Dec. 16** //Does your summary include:// o A description of your community, i.e., is it urban, rural or suburban, what is the population and size? o A summary of the problem and solution? o How the solution was implemented and tested? o How much time the process took? o What materials, resources and costs were required? o How the plan was adjusted, if appropriate? o What you would recommend doing differently?

_________ Week of Jan. 5 –15: Type all sections to your teacher and submit for revisions. **DUE: Jan. 19**

_________ Week of Week of Jan. 19 – Jan 29: Complete revisions and submit online. **DUE: Jan. 29**

**__DUE: February 2nd, 2010__**