Team Checklist

Step 1 Checklist

Is your topic:

• A current environmental issue or problem?
• An issue that affects your local community?
• Important to all team members?
• Able to be improved or impacted by students using science?

Step 2 Checklist

Is your problem statement:

• Related to the selected topic?
• Based on scientific data, information, or observation? In other words, do you have evidence that it’s a problem?
• Able to be solved using a student-developed solution?
• Specific enough that you can find a starting point to help solve it? Statements that are too broad can be somewhat unmanageable.

Step 3 Checklist

Is your solution:

• Based on science?
• Doable?
• Measurable?
• Likely to impact or fix the problem?

Does your plan:

• Seem realistic?
• Include specific action steps?
• Include all team members?
• Involve members of your community?
• Use scientific inquiry or a scientific approach?
• Include how data will be collected or measured?
• Include specifics on how you know that the plan is working?
• Show a timeline for completion?

Step 4 Checklist

Does your data:

• Show a complete record of all work done to date, what was or will be tested, when and what happened?
• Include appropriate systems of measurement and observation based on the problem and proposed solution?
• Include any adjustments to the plan that are made along the way?

Step 5 Checklist

Does your analysis include:

• Measurable evidence of how the solution impacted or is expected to impact the problem?
• Positive outcomes that were achieved or that you hope to achieve?
• Challenges and how they were overcome and/or how you plan to overcome them?
• What you learned and how you might do things differently?

Step 6 Checklist

Does your summary include:

• A description of your community, i.e., is it urban, rural or suburban, what is the population and size?
• A summary of the problem and solution?
• How the solution was implemented and tested?
• How much time the process took?
• What materials, resources and costs were required?
• How the plan was adjusted, if appropriate?
• What you would recommend doing differently?