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From the Doppler effect, to sound and rockets. Covering quantum mechanics, momentum and GPS physics. Even including the physics of water, ionizing radiation and refraction & reflection. It has thermal concepts, magnets & mag-lev trains, radioactive dating, making electricity and more. This bundle has you covered and helps students develop research skills with a STEM connection and critical thinking prompts through thought provoking questions that link to some creative and cutting edge chemistry topics! Let’s get to that excellent learning!

This research project template set provides the perfect grab and go, print and provide resources that can supplement lessons. They are a set of project templates with questions to check comprehension and inspire scientific thinking. They gives a rich and supportive framework that can be tweaked as needed for students to support differentiation.

Each research project template includes:

• Space for a one paragraph summary (that links to the 2 page science article also available on this topic - but does not have to).
• Students should produce a mathematical connection, an engineering / technology connection, 2 interesting facts / stats.
• 5 glossary terms they should fill in with their own words (which also links to the science article also available)
• 3 thought provoking questions (ie: critical thinking questions) they must answer.
• Finally, each template has 3 alternative thought provoking questions for younger students and 3 other alternative harder questions to extend high flying or older students. Giving you a total of 9 possible thought provoking questions that could be used with students to enhance their research and critical thinking.
• Further, I have added a 1 page - 20 point rubric to be used for either self-assessment or teacher assessment as you deem fit. I hope it helps support the learning even further!

WHY / WHEN TO USE:

• Useful for substitute (sub) teaching
• To extend students
• To increase scientific literacy and research skills in your class
• Great as a lesson filler when class goes too fast and you need a long running task
• To inspire students on a particular topic
• As a scaffold to support students who need support on research skills and can use a framework
• To enhance critical thinking when doing research and making a relevant and interesting output
• Give a selection of these research project templates for students to choose from
• To enhance students ability to express ideas and synthesis knowledge

WHAT’S INCLUDED:

• 20 - 7 page Word doc teacher versions with supporting appendix items
• 20 - 3 page Word doc student versions with room to fill in answers (text boxes)
• 20 - 7 page Google doc teacher versions with supporting appendix items
• 20 - 3 page Google doc student versions with room to fill in answers (text boxes)
• 20 - 7 page PDF teacher versions with supporting appendix items
• 20 - 3 page PDF student versions with space to fill in answers
• 1 page - 20 point rubric for self or teacher assessment in both Google doc and PDF form