1-6 Project 1
Submit your Project Part One: Choose Your Issue assignment. For additional details, refer to the Project Part One Topic Choice Guidelines and Rubricdocument
Tooic:
Astrometry branch of astronomy that involves precise measurements of the positions and movements of stars and other celestially bodies
SCI 200 Project Part One: Topic Choice Guidelines and Rubric
Overview: To start working on your planning document, you will review potential issues in the natural sciences and choose the issue you want to research in
your project. Each topic in the Soomo webtext will include a potential question and a nonacademic source that you can review to help you judge whether you
are interested in the topic. If none of these topics interest you, you can choose your own topic with the approval of your instructor.
Prompt: Select a contemporary issue in the natural sciences to investigate. You may select an issue that was discussed in the course, or you may select your own
if you have instructor approval. You could consider using your topic and question from Perspectives in the Natural Sciences if they are something you would like
to investigate further for this project. In this first step, you will identify your chosen issue and explain why it is significant.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
Describe the issue in the natural sciences that you have selected to investigate.
Explain why this issue is significant. This may include how it is significant to you personally or professionally, or how it is significant to society as a whole.
Rubric
Guidelines for Submission: Your topic choice should be one to two paragraphs, double spaced, with 12-point Times New Roman font and one-inch margins. You
should use current APA guidelines (or another format approved by your instructor) for any citations or references.
Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (75%) Not Evident (0%) Value
Issue Describes issue in natural sciences to
investigate
Describes issue in natural sciences to
investigate, but with gaps in
appropriateness, relevance, or detail
Does not identify issue in natural sciences
to investigate
40
Significance Clearly explains the significance of the
chosen issue
Explains the significance of the chosen
issue, but with gaps in appropriateness,
relevance, or detail
Does not explain the significance of the
chosen issue
40
Articulation of Response Submission has no major errors related
to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax,
or organization
Submission has major errors related to
citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or
organization that negatively impact
readability and articulation of main
ideas
Submission has critical errors related to
citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or
organization that prevent understanding
of ideas
20
Total 100% SCI 200 Project Part One: Topic Choice Guidelines and Rubric
Overview: To start working on your planning document, you will review potential issues in the natural sciences and choose the issue you want to research in
your project. Each topic in the Soomo webtext will include a potential question and a nonacademic source that you can review to help you judge whether you
are interested in the topic. If none of these topics interest you, you can choose your own topic with the approval of your instructor.
Prompt: Select a contemporary issue in the natural sciences to investigate. You may select an issue that was discussed in the course, or you may select your own
if you have instructor approval. You could consider using your topic and question from Perspectives in the Natural Sciences if they are something you would like
to investigate further for this project. In this first step, you will identify your chosen issue and explain why it is significant.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
Describe the issue in the natural sciences that you have selected to investigate.
Explain why this issue is significant. This may include how it is significant to you personally or professionally, or how it is significant to society as a whole.
Rubric
Guidelines for Submission: Your topic choice should be one to two paragraphs, double spaced, with 12-point Times New Roman font and one-inch margins. You
should use current APA guidelines (or another format approved by your instructor) for any citations or references.
Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (75%) Not Evident (0%) Value
Issue Describes issue in natural sciences to
investigate
Describes issue in natural sciences to
investigate, but with gaps in
appropriateness, relevance, or detail
Does not identify issue in natural sciences
to investigate
40
Significance Clearly explains the significance of the
chosen issue
Explains the significance of the chosen
issue, but with gaps in appropriateness,
relevance, or detail
Does not explain the significance of the
chosen issue
40
Articulation of Response Submission has no major errors related
to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax,
or organization
Submission has major errors related to
citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or
organization that negatively impact
readability and articulation of main
ideas
Submission has critical errors related to
citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or
organization that prevent understanding
of ideas
20
Total 100%