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Group Meeting Agendas

November 12

1. Write questions you will ask your mentor.

2. Groups will meet with their mentors via Skype.

3. Begin to research. Find out the following about your present technology: what it does, how it works and why it was invented. Take a look at the research resource page.

December 3

We are learning about bibliographies. Students will research using Google or Ask.com what a bibliography is and what information has to be in a bibliography.

December 10

Mini-lesson: Taking notes using index cards and citing sources. Starting gathering resources and taking notes.

Deadlines

December 5th - You must decide on your present technology that you are going to improve in 20 years. 

December 10th - You must have emailed your mentor at least once. You must type your essay that was due on Dec 3rd onto your wiki page. Then write a one page essay, with your group, about the history of your current technology and write it on the wiki.

December 17th - You must have stacks of notes from a least 5 sources that discuss these three items 1) description of your present technology with some explanation of the scientific principle. 2) history of the present technology starting with when it was first invented 3) Scientific principles need to create your future technology

Welcome to the Wiki

We will use this page as a way to communicate about our Exploravision projects when we are not in school. Please make sure that you do not present any personal information about yourself on this site.

To learn more about Exploravision click here.

Steps in the Exploravision Process - Entry Process

1. Explain the Exploravision competition

2. Form teams

3. Register the teams and create logins

4. Learn how to email with ePals

5. Join the Exploravision PBWiki page

6. Begin brainstorming about current technologies - check out suggestions here. Click here to see past winners and get ideas.

7. Choose a topic that interests you - click here for advice.

8. Learn all about your area of interest — what it does, how it works and why it was invented

9. Write your abstract, description and bibliography.

Abstract

Summarize your proposed future technology and other relevant information — using no more than 150 words (typed, double-spaced and clearly labeled). This document must precede other entry components and should be on a separate page. It does not count as part of the description.

Description

Prepare a written description of the project on no more than 11 typed, double-spaced pages (you may also use a combination of text and artwork).

The description must include the following sections in this exact order:

• Present Technology — Give an overview of the present form of the technology, including some scientific principles involved in how it functions.
• History — Research and describe the history of the technology from its inception.
• Future Technology — Describe the team's vision for what this technology will be like in 20 years — including scientific principles involved in developing the technology.
• Breakthroughs — Research and describe breakthroughs that are necessary to make the future technology design a reality. Why doesn't this future technology exist today?
• Design Process — Describe three alternative ideas or features the team considered for this ExploraVision project. The ideas and features should be directly related to the entry, not a list of other entries you may have submitted. Describe why the team rejected each feature and idea in favor of the ones in the submitted ExploraVision technology. Describe the team's design process.
• Consequences — Recognizing that all technologies have positive and negative consequences, describe the potential positive and negative consequences of the new technology on society.

Bibliography

All sources used in researching the chosen technology should be referenced here. (This does not count as part of the description.)

Mandatory criteria:

• Sources must be clearly labeled and include title, author, publisher and copyright date
• Also include Internet sources, interviews and non-original graphics
• Footnotes are encouraged, but not required