Student Worksheet

Materials:

Student Worksheet (optional)

Instructions:
All participating schools are required to submit one Final Report to the Project Discussion Area. Basically, this report should explain what the students have learned from the project. In addition, it will be necessary to revisit your original hypotheses and decide whether or not the information you determined from the previous activities supports or does not support the hypotheses.

1. Check the Project Data so you can compare the types of macroinvertebrates found by the different schools from around the world.
   See Project Instructions for when the Verified Data will be published.
    
2. Restate your hypotheses. Lead a whole class discussion centering on whether or not the data collected and macroinvertebrates found by the other schools posted in the Project Data section supported or did not support their hypotheses.
    
3. Students should return to their groups and write their final reports. Students may write their reports in groups or as individuals. The following is a suggested format:
   1. Introductory Paragraph - basic information such as:
      • School name, location, and grade and/or subject area
   2. Main Body
      • Name, location, and a description of where you conducted the water sampling tests (please include all the information you wrote from the General Observations).
      • The water sampling tests you conducted (i.e. optional tests).
      • Your original hypotheses.
   3. Conclusions
      • Did your findings prove or disprove your hypotheses? Give your reasons.
      • How did the types of organisms you found compare with those found by others?
      • What conclusions did you draw?
      • How did the new information change your thinking?
   4. Additional questions to consider (Optional)
      • What was something new that you learned?
      • What would you do differently next time?
         
4. Submit your Final Report to the Final Reports conference area of the Discussion Area. Please include your school name, location, grade and subject area in the Final Report. In the subject line, please write "Final Report from Your School" (example: Final Report from Kennedy Middle School).
    
5. In the last couple of weeks of the project, the project leader will select the best or most interesting reports from the Discussion Area and post those reports as separate web pages in the Student Gallery section on this project web site.