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This document outlines the framework for an Environmental Systems and Societies (ESS) International Baccalaureate (IB) internal assessment. It provides a 21-point structure for an experiment-based investigation into an environmental issue including sections for the research question, variables, methodology, data collection and analysis, conclusions, and application to the original environmental problem. The framework guides students through defining an environmental problem, formulating a research question to address it, designing and conducting an experiment, analyzing results, and considering how findings could provide solutions or further insights into the issue.

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Ess Ia

This document outlines the framework for an Environmental Systems and Societies (ESS) International Baccalaureate (IB) internal assessment. It provides a 21-point structure for an experiment-based investigation into an environmental issue including sections for the research question, variables, methodology, data collection and analysis, conclusions, and application to the original environmental problem. The framework guides students through defining an environmental problem, formulating a research question to address it, designing and conducting an experiment, analyzing results, and considering how findings could provide solutions or further insights into the issue.

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ESS IA FRAMEWORK

1. Title (aim)
2. Environmental issue
a. Provide a relevant issue in the world today related to environmental science
b. Discuss the issues’ relevance
c. Provide a connection and context to your question
3. Research question
a. Must contain independent and dependent variable
4. Global or local connection
a. A. Explain how the issue and the question are related to either the globe or to a
specific local issue
5. Background Information
a. Science behind the lab and connection to the research question
6. 6. Hypothesis
a. If applicable
7. Variables

variable testing Units and uncertainty Manipulation and


how to explain

Independent

Dependent

controlled

Uncontrolled

8. Safety and ethics


a. Safety issues that must be considered
9. Justification of method
a. Explain methodology and justify why
10. Materials
a. Apparatus
b. chemicals
11. Procedure (instructions)
12. Raw Data
a. Qualitative
b. Quantitative
c. Tabular/ add title and label
13. Processed data
a. Change or manipulate data to make it easier to understand
b. Showing calculations
14. Presented data - graph
15 . Graph for independent/dependent variable
16. Conclusion
a. Explain pattern/relationships the independent and dependent variable referring to your
graphs and tables
b. Hypothesis accepted or rejected
c. Explain using data ^
d. Scientific explanation of Data
e. How does this relate to other data you researched? (collect secondary data)
17. Conclusion and environmental context
a. evaluate the strength and weakness of your conclusion in addressing your
environmental issue identified (tabular)
18 . Evaluation
a. Strength of the experiment with explanation
b. Weakness and errors in the experiment with explanation
c. Improvements to the experiment
d. Every error and weakness addressed needs an effect on the data and specific
improvement
19. Conclusion about the validity of your experiment
20. Further inquiry - suggest further aspects of the experiment
21. Application
a. Provide a solution to the environmental issue based on your findings and within the
context of your environmental issue
b. Evaluate the strength, weakness and limitation of this solution in addressing the
environmental issue
22. Bibliography
a. Citation - date - MLA

TIMES NEW ROMAN 11/12 page no. 1.15 spacing 2250 words

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