Home Science PBI Project

Science is all around us. Its a spider trapping a fly in its web, its growing a
garden in your back yard, its the summer thunderstorm that rolls through every day.
Science is the cookies baking in the oven, cleaning the dirty dishes in the sink, and
charging your iPhone and laptop.
Over the course this unit, we will be covering the Nature of Science. Specifically,
experimental design, variables, evaluating scientific information, measurement and
scientific tools, and scientific theories and laws. Each of these topics will assist you in
completing this units project.
Directions:
Your task is to observe something at home that can be scientifically tested.
o Develop a testable hypothesis.
Design an experiment to test this hypothesis.
Create an oral presentation about your experiment
o The method of presentation is up to you, but it must last 5 minutes.
Examples include a powerpoint, poster, prezi, etc
The presentation must include the following:
o Observation
o Hypothesis
o Materials
o Methods (Procedures)
o Results (Presented in a table and a graph)
o Conclusions
o Going Further
New questions that arose, things that didnt work, what you would
do differently
Due Dates:
- Question and Hypothesis Date___August 17, 2017_______________
- Materials List Date___August 21, 2017_______________
- Methods Date___August 24, 2017_______________
- Results and Conclusions Date___August 30, 2017_______________
- Going Further Date___September 6, 2017_______________
Nature of Science PBI Presentation Rubric
Component 0 pts 5pts 10 pts Points
Awarded
Observation Observation N/A Student mentions their
missing or not observation and it is
related. related to the experiment
performed.
Hypothesis No hypothesis is Hypothesis presented, Hypothesis is presented
presented. but is not testable. and is testable.

Materials No Materials are Some materials are All materials used are
listed or presented but not all that presented.
presented. were used in the
experiment.
Methods No methods are Only some methods of All methods are clearly
presented, or experimentation are presented and could be
methods presented presented, or some followed.
are unfollowable. methods are unclear and
unfollowable.

Results No results are Only some results are All results are presented
presented, or presented, or some and clear.
results presented results are unclear.
are unclear.
Conclusions No conclusions Conclusions presented Conclusions are all
are presented. are unclear. presented and easily
understood.
Next No next steps are Some next steps are Next steps are presented,
Steps/Going presented. presented, but they are well thought out, and
Further unclear and do not clearly follow the results
follow what was of the experiment.
discovered in the
experiment, or it was
obvious only minimal
effort was applied.
Professionalism Student interrupts N/A Student acts in a
other student professional manner,
presentations, or both while presenting
causes other and while observing
distractions.
Creativity Students Either student Both student experiment
experiment is not experiment is not and presentation are
creative and creative, or presentation original and creative.
presentation is not is not original.
original.
Effort Student did not N/A Effort can clearly be
put any effort into seen in students
the experiment or presentation and
presentation. experiment
Total out of 100 points