The research project
A research project is built step by step. 1) Introduction: what the topic is and why it matters. 2) Aim: why you are doing the research. 3) Tasks: the work needed to reach the aim (collecting information, reading, observing, concluding). 4) Object: what you study. 5) Subject: which side of the object you study. 6) Hypothesis: your guess. 7) Experiment or observation, survey. 8) Conclusion: was the hypothesis confirmed or not. For example, on the topic “How much water do school pupils drink a day?”: aim — to learn about the habit of drinking water; object — classmates; subject — the amount of water they drink; hypothesis — “most drink less than 1 litre a day”. You run a survey, count the results, put them in a table and draw a conclusion. Even if the hypothesis is not confirmed, that is an important result. Topic ideas: hygiene, healthy sleep, proper nutrition, clean air, gadgets and eyes, physical activity, hardening, the role of plants and animals in our life, bacteria and viruses.
Project presentation: write all 8 parts of a project plan for your chosen topic on one page and explain it to the class in two minutes.