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 practical investigations
- 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, Digital Documentary, Blog, Website)
3. Oral Presentation

Please look at the Rubrics that will be used to grade your project so you are clear on what is expected of you. The links to the Rubrics are in the Resources section below.

You should include 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

Project Deadlines
Friday, April 4th - Choose a Topic
Friday, April 11th - Come up with your Key Questions (at least 5) for the Note Taking Grid
Friday, May 2nd - Note Taking Grid completed
Friday, May 16th - Inspiration Outline
Friday, May 23rd - Multimedia Project Outline
Friday, June 6th - Multimedia Project completed
Friday, June 6th - Written Report Completed
Friday, June 13th - Oral presentations complete