Power up your research on your area of concern with our proposal step 1 prompts and success tips for writing a Community Project proposal.

Distribute the student resource to students and allow them to work at their own pace, or break the modules into sessions to fit your coaching or teaching schedule. Use the facilitator guide to support these activities with younger students and students who have not had instruction in research.

Our POWER acronym guides project research plan development in a clear, easy-to-follow process. Use this tool after students identify an issue to explore and who they may want to impact. Or, start this process to help students narrow their focus if deciding between two or three project ideas.
• P – Plan your research
• O – Organise your sources
• W – Write notes
• E – Edit into a draft
• R – Review your work

After completion, students will be able to develop a research plan using the POWER process and draft an area of concern that meets the requirements for a competitive project (step 1 in the problem-solving process) .

Student Resource
Students with strong research, reading, and writing skills may need little support from their coach.
What’s inside:
- Proposal introduction: Instructions, how to’s, student tips, and helpful resource links

-  Step-by-step activities: A variety of tools, research, and activities prompt students through each POWER step and self-assessment

- Student examples: Real competition project proposal topics and submissions 

Facilitator Guide

This coach and teacher guide supports our student edition. 
What’s inside:
– Learning modules: Descriptions of what students are doing with ideas on how to check their progress
– Annotations: Each guide page is labelled as information or an activity.
– Formative assessment: Assessment ideas and student-inspired examples provide additional support and feedback
– Extensions: Additional activity Ideas & resources

For more information on the activities and resources included, see the individual product pages to view the table of contents for each unit.