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