Community Issues Project

Within the field of psychology, there are different approaches. This project is based on two psychological approaches, research psychology and social psychology. Students will be placed in groups. Groups will design and develop an invention to help their local community. Groups will have one week to conduct research on community needs. Based on their research they will have one week to develop a proposed solution to their project topic, one week for testing and data collection, and one week for presentations. At Meta, we used the scientific method to solve a problem. We started with a question of durability, we researched, experimented, analyzed, and reported our results. My students will be graded on how organized they are, their depth of research, their identified goals, the cohesiveness of the group, and the quality of their presentation. Grades will be based on a project checklist that will be provided to them complete with due dates and item descriptions.