Credible sources, prior art, citation, source bias, needs assessment.
Your PLTW coursework: Biomedical Innovation ▸ Problem 1: Design of an Effective Emergency Room ▸ "Activity 1.1.2 Research and Documentation"
What to do if absent- CER:
- Claim, Evidence, Reasoning: make a claim, back it with evidence, explain your reasoning.
- SOP:
- Standard Operating Procedure, the exact steps to follow (especially in a lab).
- Tracker:
- Your PLTW progress log where you record completed evidence.
- myPLTW:
- The PLTW course site where you do the online activities. Find it in Clever with your Microsoft sign-in, right next to Schoology.
Week overview - Finding the truth: credible sources, prior art, and needs assessment
Evaluate sources for credibility and bias, survey , and write a focused for your ER redesign.
- 1List three questions your ER redesign still needs answered before you can design well.
- 2Find one source for each question and record its author, date, and publisher.
- 3Rate each source for credibility and note any possible in one phrase.
- 4Search for : find one existing ER solution others have already tried.
- 5Add a citation for every source to your annotated source packet using a consistent format.
- 6Write a two-sentence naming the gap your design will address.
- • You will be able to judge a source's credibility and possible bias.
- • You will be able to cite sources in a consistent format.
- • You will be able to write a focused .
Daily lessons this week
Open any day for its full lesson, the work due that day, and guided notes.
list classified by evidence type (data vs. expert source) and a research log set up with the required columns.
Source credibility check: three sources scored on authority, accuracy, currency, and bias, plus one prior-art identification and keep/reject decisions.
Annotated source set with two-sentence annotations, consistent citations, and at least one bias flag.
Annotated ER research notes packet: research questions, credible sources with annotations and citations, needs-assessment summary, and one evidence gap.
Quick intro to the week
- Hook: a good designer borrows from everyone who solved part of the problem before, then cites them honestly.
- Today's goal: build an annotated source packet you can actually trust to guide your ER design.
- Monday's bioethics debate on matters here: who funded a study can shape what it claims.
- Reminder: your graded source packet and live in the PLTW course shell.
Your PLTW coursework this week
Do this: Advance PLTW Problem 1 by completing the research and needs-assessment benchmark in the online course shell.
- • Credibility depends on the author, evidence, and publisher behind a source.
- • is existing work that addresses part of your problem.
- • Detect possible in a reference.
- • Write a citation in a consistent format.
📋 PLTW evidence due: annotated source packet with citations and a written in the course shell.
All PLTW activities are completed inside the PLTW course environment: this page only gives direction.
This week's PLTW tracker
Your week at a glance. Check off each deliverable as you finish it, then submit so Mr. Mendoza can see how the class is pacing.
Use the code Mr. Mendoza gave you, not your name. Saved on this device.
| Day | Date | Focus | Key deliverable |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday | Wed, Feb 10 | Research kickoff | Research question list classified by evidence type (data vs. expert source) and a research log set up with the required columns. |
| Tuesday | Tue, Feb 16 | Credible source check | Source credibility check: three sources scored on authority, accuracy, currency, and bias, plus one prior-art identification and keep/reject decisions. |
| Thursday | - | Annotation and citation | Annotated source set with two-sentence annotations, consistent citations, and at least one bias flag. |
| Friday | - | Submit research notes | Annotated ER research notes packet: research questions, credible sources with annotations and citations, needs-assessment summary, and one evidence gap. |
- M: no school
- T: research kickoff
- W: shortened-day source check
- Th: annotations
- F: research notes submit
Due by week's end: Annotated ER research notes.
4 panels from the illustrated semester.
Fiction. There is no such student. The lessons, labs and dates are the real planned course; the student, the classmates and the conversations are invented.
What to do when absent
Most days, this class is your PLTW coursework: and PLTW is online and individual. So being out usually just means doing exactly what we did in class, from home.
Open Clever, then myPLTWHow to get there: open Clever and sign in with your Microsoft (district) account. Both myPLTW and Schoology are in Clever. Do the activity in myPLTW. Turn the work in on this site or hand it to Mr. Mendoza, because that is the step that counts as submitted. Schoology only shows your report-card grade later.
You can't do those from home: do this instead: Annotated source packet.
Class still runs. A substitute will post today's plan: complete the online activity above; it's built to be self-guided. Need the concept taught without a teacher? Use this authoritative explainer:
MedlinePlus Evaluating Health InformationVocabulary
Virtual resources
Teacher-posted resources
Classroom documents for this lesson are posted in Schoology. Open Clever, then Schoology, and find each one by the name shown on its card.
Open this when the class reaches this activity and use it to complete the required lesson artifact.
Placement rationale
Matched Research documentation and source credibility by path:Biomedical-Innovations/Problem-1_Emergency-Room/1.1_Emergency-Room; keywords:research, documentation, credibility, scavenger, website. Score 162. Visibility: student-schoology (student-facing resource; link through Schoology rather than local path).
Open this when the class reaches this activity and use it to complete the required lesson artifact.
Placement rationale
Matched Research documentation and source credibility by path:Biomedical-Innovations/Problem-1_Emergency-Room/1.1_Emergency-Room; keywords:research, documentation, scavenger. Score 146. Visibility: student-schoology (student-facing resource; link through Schoology rather than local path).
Open this when the class reaches this activity and use it to complete the required lesson artifact.
Placement rationale
Matched Research documentation and source credibility by path:Biomedical-Innovations/Problem-1_Emergency-Room/1.1_Emergency-Room; keywords:research, documentation, scavenger. Score 146. Visibility: student-schoology (student-facing resource; link through Schoology rather than local path).
How to get there: open Clever and sign in with your Microsoft (district) account. Both myPLTW and Schoology are in Clever. Do the activity in myPLTW. Turn the work in on this site or hand it to Mr. Mendoza, because that is the step that counts as submitted. Schoology only shows your report-card grade later.