Saturday, May 13, 2006
Things to do During MCAS Week
Our images should be here by the 22nd/23rd. We must be ready to analyze them and prepare the final report. We won't meet this week, but you should work:
1. Get all of your background images in order. If you have to add text, make measurements, identify features etc. do it!
2. Know exactly what your experiment will be and write it. Objective, hypothesis, independent and dependent variables, procedure.
3. How will you show your results? In almost all cases this will be done using a set of comparison images. Be sure you have those images collected. If they are THEMIS images print them and save them to something. If they are Earth-based, be sure you have citations ready for them.
4. Discussion. How ill you know if you've discovered something? How sure are you of your results? Think about this. You will be able to use the full set of 16 images plus and images we collected from last year. Do they show what you expected? There's nothing wrong with failure! If you don't prove your point, or find out that you were wrong, that's acceptable!
5. Abstract. Someone must write a one-paragraph summary of your entire project listing the objective, describing the experiment, and giving the results. Start this.
This all must be done by the end of school. We have the images for six months, but the 8th graders are moving on. So everything must be done by the end of this school year.
6. Best of luck on the MCAS exams!
1. Get all of your background images in order. If you have to add text, make measurements, identify features etc. do it!
2. Know exactly what your experiment will be and write it. Objective, hypothesis, independent and dependent variables, procedure.
3. How will you show your results? In almost all cases this will be done using a set of comparison images. Be sure you have those images collected. If they are THEMIS images print them and save them to something. If they are Earth-based, be sure you have citations ready for them.
4. Discussion. How ill you know if you've discovered something? How sure are you of your results? Think about this. You will be able to use the full set of 16 images plus and images we collected from last year. Do they show what you expected? There's nothing wrong with failure! If you don't prove your point, or find out that you were wrong, that's acceptable!
5. Abstract. Someone must write a one-paragraph summary of your entire project listing the objective, describing the experiment, and giving the results. Start this.
This all must be done by the end of school. We have the images for six months, but the 8th graders are moving on. So everything must be done by the end of this school year.
6. Best of luck on the MCAS exams!
# posted by Mr. Lindgren @ 5:08 AM 
