Collaborative Learning Project

Using and effective learning technique and a Opportunity to meet Georgia Standards we will have the opportunity this year to do a Collaborative Learning project. This project not only calls for students to work together,but also involves the parents getting involve with their children completing the project when at home.

In 8th grade we try to meet the Ga standard:

S8CS9. Students will understand the features of the process of scientific inquiry.
Students will apply the following to inquiry learning practices:
a. Investigations are conducted for different reasons, which include exploring new phenomena, confirming previous results, testing how well a theory predicts, and comparing different theories. Scientific investigations usually involve collecting evidence, reasoning, devising hypotheses, and formulating explanations to make sense of collected evidence.
b. Scientific investigations usually involve collecting evidence, reasoning, devising hypotheses, and formulating explanations to make sense of collected evidence.
c. Scientific experiments investigate the effect of one variable on another. All other variables are kept constant.
d. Scientists often collaborate to design research. To prevent this bias, scientists conduct independent studies of the same questions.
e. Accurate record keeping, data sharing, and replication of results are essential for maintaining an investigator’s credibility with other scientists and society.
f. Scientists use technology and mathematics to enhance the process of scientific inquiry.
g. The ethics of science require that special care must be taken and used for human subjects and animals in scientific research. Scientists must adhere to the appropriate rules and guidelines when conducting research.


So our project will involve students working in group of two. The groups of two will be given a research topic or question in which students will have to research, explain, build an experiment, and display their results or data collected. This project will take quite some time and will be due at the end of the semester.  Even though their will be allowed time over the course of this semester, in which students will have an opportunity to work on project; It is also important that they the complete project at home as well. Sites useful for students will always be listed here on this blog. Sites such as epal (http://www.epals.com/) which allows for students to connect and research in a safe environment will be listed under useful sites on the right side of blog. At the end of the semester, a Project display broad, a video of their experiment, and a detail lab report will be due. Details will be given in class during the first week of school. This is a major part of students grade and a major opportunity to have fun with science.