Preparing a portfolio - your portfolio should contain all the items listed below. Standards of presentation are important. That means that your portfolio should be neat and well-organized. Your papers should be organized and labelled so that it is easy for the reader to determine whether all the elements are there, and to identify what is what. Materials should be presented in some sort of lightweight binder or folder with clips; not simply as a collection of loose pages in a manila folder. Your portfolio should be labelled on both the outside and on the inside with your name, the program name, and the name of the faculty member to whom it is being submitted.

For your personal documentation of program activities, experiments, and readings, you will probably want to include handouts and reading material that was passed out in class. It is not necessary to include all of this in the portfolio you turn in, but you may include it if it helps you organize and document the material.

 

Item

Description

Date

1

Intake and pre-assessment questions

2 April

2

Gravity - aerodynamics experiments (dropping books, paper, etc.)

5 April

3

First Excel workshop: data entry, histograms

5 April

4

Scaling: Size, mass, pressure (elephants, high heels, blockheads)

16 April

4.5

Paper: One unsupported argument (and one supported argument/kh sem)

16 April

5

Trees: height and diameter graph, and regression analysis

19 April

6

Hypothesis testing: Excel workshop with dice data

23 April

7

Float the Boat

23 April

8

Hot! Hot! Hot!

30 April

8.5

Paper: Does Science Change People's Minds

30 April

9

Water

3 May

10

Confidence Intervals – Margin of Error 14 May
11
Paper: Baloney detecting 14 May
12
Thickness of foil / size of molecule (oil drop on water) 14 May
13
Leaf pigments (paper chromatography strip - tape or glue to page) 17 May
14
Morphometrics: Documentation - one regression: data, graph, analysis, notes on hypothesis, methods, results and conclusion. 17 May
15
See the light: spectroscopy, light, and color 17 May
16
Paper: Darwin, Wallace, and evolution 21 May
17
Energy 28 May
18
Flag decals on vehicles: chi-squared and contingency tables 28 May
19

Research project reports

First draft
Second draft

Final report

31 May