From the Unseen to the Seen

Annotated Research
Directions: The following summarizes the research you must complete to create your project
proposal.

Your Interest
The
Mechanism
The
components

The
community

Find something really important to you

that you couldnt live without. Something that
makes you, you! What is that thing made of?
What is the primary mechanism that
drives your thing.
How does the mechanism contribute to
your thing?
What happens to your thing in the
absence of the mechanism?
What are the components of your
mechanism?
What is the evolution/ history of your
mechanism?
What is it made of?
What are other purposes of the
mechanism?
How does your thing make a difference in
the community?
How can you share your thing with the
world?

Your Interest
What makes you, you!

The Mechanism
Identify the mechanism that is most central to your interest and explain how it functions.
Underneath each research question, summarize your research first with APA formatting.
Second, write an answer to the research question.
Research Question #1:
What is the mechanism of your thing? How does the mechanism contribute to your thing?

The Components of the Mechanism

Research Question #2:
What are the components of the mechanism? Draw the mechanism and label components.
How does the structure effect the function of the mechanism?

Research Question #3:

What is the history or evolution of the mechanism?

Research Question #4:

What is the mechanism made of?

Research Question #5:

What are other purposes of the mechanism?

The Community
Research Question #6:

How does your thing impact or effect the community? / How can you share your interest with
the world?

Research Rubric
4

Science Content

Addresses all 6
research questions
using appropriate
grade-level scientific
language.

Addresses 4 or more
research question
using some appropriate
grade-level scientific
language.

Addresses less than 4

research questions in
general language.

Source citations

Every citation follows

APA with no errors.

Most citations follow

APA, but some citations
have errors that make it
difficult to find the
source.

Citations do not follow

APA and it is
impossible to find some
of the sources.

Summary of source

Includes enough
information
summarized to fully
answer the research
question or part of the
research question.

Is missing some
information from the
article being
summarized that would
have been helpful to
answer the research
question.

Is missing significant
information from the
article being
summarized that would
have been helpful to
answer the research
question.

Mechanics and
grammar

Virtually free from

mechanical,
grammatical,
punctuation, and
spelling errors.

Some significant errors

are present, but the
overall meaning is
clear.

Errors distract the

reader, to the extent
the meaning is unclear.