Class Project Level 4

Class project description: College Students Challenge

Situation and Context: Students will participate in a role-play based on college students competition called “The College Challenge Contest”. This is an annual international competition for college students. The objective of the contest is to stimulate proactive interdisciplinary problem-solving analysis amongst undergraduate students around the world. Winners receive cash awards to help advance their ideas to the next level. Our University will sponsor a group of students to travel and participate in this competition, thus students are encouraged to send and present their projects to represent our University.

Steps:

1. Students come up with innovations to address the issue constructively. Innovations could be a physical product, a service or a combination of the two.
2. Students learn how to access databases and other sources of reliable information to search more information about the chosen topic.
3. Students learn about reading strategies to read the selected articles and prepare a graphic organizer to present the collected information.
4. Students prepare a project proposal which includes a biosketch, an introduction (description of the problem), objectives, and solution.
5. Students design a website to present their project proposal.
6. Students pitch their projects at the jury.

Task 1 - October 6th

Project: Task 1

Summative Assessment: 5%

Deadline: October 14th

Objective: to gather information from reliable sources and to use reading strategies to learn about a specific topic from an area of study.

Please download this file and do all the proposed activities with your project team. Send it via email (aljimenezqu) by October 14th.

File: Project Task 1

Task 2 - October 18th

Project: Task 2

Summative Assessment: 5%

Deadline: October 25th

Objective: to improve your academic writing by writing the problem description of your project.

When writing an academic text, it is not enough to have good ideas or persuasive arguments. It is also important to express them correctly.

These rules and practices may be organised around a formal order or structure in which to present ideas to ensure that ideas are supported by author citations in the literature.

It deals with the underlying theories and causes governing processes and practices in everyday life, as well as exploring alternative explanations for these events.

Academic writing follows a particular ‘tone’ and adheres to traditional conventions of punctuation, grammar, and spelling. 

Some tips:

Basic Writing Rules

Improve your Writing

Gerunds vs Infinitives

Passive Voice vs Active Voice

Task: After reading about the chosen problem, please write your problem description (300 to 350 words). Remember to include your references and to follow the writing rules studied. Send it via email (aljimenezqu) by October 25th. Use this model: Plastic Pollution



Task 3-November 3rd

Project: Task 3

Summative Assessment: 10%

Deadline: November 12th

At the lab

Today you will design a website (blog, wiki or any other free website) to publish all the information about your project.

Steps:

0. Check this model from a previous class project: http://cleaningthelife.wixsite.com/wastewater

1. Choose a tool to create a blog or a website. You can use one of these tools:

https://www.blogger.com/  

https://es.wordpress.com/ 

http://es.wix.com/ 

http://www.weebly.com/index.php?lang=es

Note: Remember the website entries or pages you should include:

About us (Biosketch) 

Problem Description

Solution: Use the assigned file to write about the solution:  Our Projects 10

2. Post the address of your website in the comments box by Nov 8th.