Extra Credit Options for Lim’s Science class



Extra Credit Options for Lim’s Science class

Option 1, Science News:

For Science News, you need to find news covering science or technology that we have not discussed in class. You may use the internet, magazines or newspaper. You will need the following items.

1. 5 separate news articles printed or cut out of newspaper/magazine

2. A typed summary of at least 2 paragraphs of what you learned for EACH news article.

3. A folder with all the articles and summaries

4. Folder should have table of contents to show which page has what.

You may do up to 6 of these in one grading period. That would be a total of 30 articles and 30 summaries.

Option 2, Research paper

For the paper, you may pick a topic that was mentioned in class but not tested over. You may speak with your science teacher to narrow down some ideas and topics. The requirements of the research paper are:

1. Pre-approved topic by teacher

2. 2 page minimum typed.

3. 12 point font

4. Double-spaced

5. Bibliography with at least 3 sources. (Wikipedia and google do not apply)

One research paper is the equal to doing three Option #1 extra credit assignments. You may do up to 2 of these per grading period.

Option 3, Hot Science Cool Talks Summary

For the summary, you may pick a topic from the Hot Science Cool Talks Archive. Most of the older ones should be recorded and available to watch. More recent talks may not be uploaded yet. The list of video are here

The requirements of this summary/paper are:

1. 1 page minimum, 2 page maximum typed

2. 12 point font

3. Double spaced

4. Discuss 3 major ideas from their talk.

5. Discuss at least 1 item you found interesting or was new to you.

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