8th Grade Science Exit Project

Exit Project Guidelines
Your 8th Grade Science Exit Project will be the culminating project of the year. You will be responsible for:
- Doing the research
- Formulating a Hypothesis
- Engaging in real Scientific Inquiry by conducting a practical investigation
- Making and recording relevant observations (use your 5 senses)
- Analyzing the data
- Making a conclusion based on observations and research

You will have 3 major parts of the project that you will be graded on:
1. Written Report
2. Visual Presentation (PowerPoint, Tri-board, Digital Documentary, Blog, Website)
3. Oral Presentation

Please look at the Rubric/checklist that will be used to grade your project so you are clear on what is expected of you. The Rubric and checklist were provided in class.You should try to incorporate the use of Technology in your project. Some ways you can use technology in your project are:
- Internet research
- Excel to create graphs of your data
- Inspiration to create a diagram or outline
- PowerPoint, Movie Maker to create your visual presentation
- Creating a Blog or a website for your visual presentation
- Digital cameras to take pictures or videos of observations
- Creating podcasts to record your observations

Deadlines

At this point in the school year we have completed several steps toward completing our exit project. We chose a topic, designed an experiment, conducted the experiment, explored and evaluated our results, and made conclusions. The final step in this process is to complete a visual representation of our research and share our data in the form of a presentation.

May 12th- Entire project is due at this time. Revisions will be allowed after the project has been reviewed by the teacher ONLY to improve the presentation.

May 12th- Presentations begin in class. Each student or pair must present their project.

Scientific Method

Your Project should include the Scientific Method. You should use this Method when you are doing your experiments. Please include these steps in your Written Report and your Visual Presentation.
Problem: Question you want to answer.
Clear and Informed Hypothesis: What you think the answer to the problem is.
Materials: What you used to answer problem (supplies, etc).
Procedure: Steps you take to answer the problem (Step by step directions, Variables, controls).
Results: Answer the problem, reported in an organized manner, charts, graphs, and diagrams.
Conclusion:WHY you got the results you did, NOT if your hypothesis was correct, it may support NOT prove, NOT your results in sentence form (explain).
Sources: You must include at least exact and reliable sources (sources need to be the exact web address, Exact book title AND author).

Independent makes the change, dependent is what gets changed
Example: If you are observing how the amount of sunlight affects plant growth. The dependent variable is the plants growth, which is dependent of the independent variable, and the independent variable is the amount of sunlight.