Post-16: Planning an expedition
4. After your visit: submit your plan
Submit your plan for funding and evaluate your classmates' work.
Submit your plan
Check your work covers the key points. Print out your plan and add a cover page. Make sure it is neatly presented for submission to the funding board.
Evaluation
Your expedition plan has to be submitted for funding. The plans must go through a process of peer review to check that they are worthwhile:
- Everyone in the class should read 3 other students' expedition plans.
- As you read, make notes using the criteria in the checklist below and give each project a mark. You can give a maximum of 2 points for each of the 7 criteria so the maximum overall mark for a plan is 14.
- If you want to mark each others' work anonymously you can use numbers instead of names to label the plans.
- Your teacher will have a list of names/numbers on a spreadsheet – write in your marks.
- Add up the marks.
- The top 3 projects need to present their proposal to the class.
- Vote to decide who you would award funding money to.
Checklist:
- What are they studying?
- Why is it important?
- Where are they travelling?
- How much will it cost?
- What do they need to take?
- How will they analyse the data?
- Have they linked it to research?
Well done!
We hope you enjoyed writing your report. You have now learnt about the process of planning a research expedition.
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