Module/Week 7
Life Artifacts
Media Piece
Life Artifacts Objective
Collect and assemble indirect evidence of life stages.
Recitation (the 50-minute activity) attendance is not required, but you are welcome to use that class time as office hours to ask your GTA questions, or study with classmates in 127 Weniger.
Assignment (due Sunday on Canvas)
Life Artifacts
Science is limited to observable phenomena, meaning there needs to be direct or indirect evidence that something has occurred. Direct evidence is what you collect with your own senses; indirect evidence is an artifact of something that happened in the past like a photo or a fossil. In this assignment you are collecting and assembling indirect evidence of life stages.
Step #1: Collect evidence of life stages.
This includes reproduction/pregnancy, infancy/childhood, puberty, adulthood, and/or aging. This could be evidence of your own life or someone you know like a family member, friend or community member. You could select a single life stage or show a breadth of life stages. Examples of evidence include photos, receipts, clothes, writing, awards, school items, products, and much more.
Step #2: Assemble the forms of evidence into a form that tells a story.
Many researchers work with artifact (object) evidence and their selection and arrangement of evidence is used to convey information. Arrange your artifacts/evidence to convey a message. It could convey science knowledge, information about your personal life stages, and/or make a more general point about human experience.
You are turning in:
A. A photo or video of your assembled life stage evidence.
B. A description of the message you are trying to convey. This could be in writing, captioning on photos, or in a video.
Media Directions
Submitted to Canvas.
Upload your life artifacts media piece to Canvas. Your single file can be submitted as a PDF, a word document, a website link, or even a video. Multiple assignment formats are supported.
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