The first part to writing your internal assessment is "Identifying the Context". This is where you establish and explore an environmental issue for an investigation and develop this to state a relevant and focused research question.
Checklist:
To score high in this section you need to choose a relevant environmental issue that you can
- Introduce your topic by explaining why you chose it
- describe your issue citing sources to help explain why it is important (worthy of investigation)
- use statistics/data to illustrate why your problem is relevant
- link the issue back to your research question--how are the two connected?
- Briefly describe how you will answer your research question and how the answers will help towards a solution for your issue
- Formulate a hypothesis to predict the outcome of the experiment and explain it using logical scientific reasoning
To score high in this section you need to choose a relevant environmental issue that you can
- Discuss and explain its global and/or local relevance
- Use to develop a focused/narrow research question
- Explain how the issue is linked to the research question