“Despite investigatory project work in science made mandatory at the secondary level by the Central Board of Secondary Education, most teachers continue to promote submission of assembled gadgets or working models as project work. However, there is a need for orientation of science teachers towards pursuit of investigations, explorations and discoveries in contextualized science to live up to the purpose of science projects to develop scientific attitude and temperament,” says Jaipur based educator and research Dr Lalit Kishore whose book ‘Investigatory Projects in Physics’ [1] has been mentioned as reference resource in the book ‘Class 12 Physics Investigatory Project Shahz - Shell Shack [2].
According to the CBSE [3], at the secondary school level, project work in science needs to be the a ‘practical investigation carried out by an individual or a group of students’ at their ‘own initiative’ along with discussions on ;evaluation of findings, redefining ideas and designing further investigations.’
The NCERT [4] suggests that ‘nvestigations are more open-ended than practical exercises involving a search to understand the unknown and begins with a question or a hypothesis‘ for which students are ‘ not instructed exactly what to do, but are given only general guidance’ so as they are given ‘ more opportunity to plan work’ themselves. Further, it has been suggested that Project reports must have the following sections: (i)Title of the investigatory project; (ii) Objectives; (iii) Materials needed; (iv) Method; (v) Results; (vi) Analysis and interpretation; (vii) Discussion and implication (viii) Conclusion, and (ix) References
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