Transcript Science Presentation Outline and Sequence

Science Presentation Outline and
Sequence
7th and 8th grade
•A title page – include your name and grade
•Question or problem
•Background information – Use bullets to outline information necessary for the
judges to understand your project and the rationale behind it. Real World
Application!
•Hypothesis
•Materials (listed)
•Procedure - Use bullets and be brief.
•A slide stating your independent variable, dependent variable, control, and
constants.
•Data – charts and graphs – you may need several slides for this section. You
should also have a slide with the results of any statistical tests that you used to
see if your data was significant. Your discussion should be an oral explanation
of your data.
•Sources of error or factors that may have affected your results
•Conclusion – Was your hypothesis supported?
•Further Research
•Works cited
Presentation of
Title and Problem
Name
(30 seconds)
Rationale(2 minutes)
• What is the general area of your research, and
how can you tell?
• What scientific principal, or concept is
involved?
• What is some previous research or
background about this topic?
• When did you first become interested in this
topic? What interests you about it?
Rationale Continued
• What is special (personal) reason you have for
doing this type of research?
• How/Why did you narrow your broad topic of
interest to a more specific idea?
• Has your topic been studied before? What
makes your approach unique?
• what occupations could use this information?
How could it help?
Hypothesis
A clear statement in an
“if…., then…” format
(30 sec)
Materials
•List
•Include amounts in
METRIC only!!!!!
(30 sec to 1 minute)
Procedures
• Bullet points
• Thorough – a person should be able to look at
your procedures and redo the experiment
without having to talk to you.
• NEVER include “Gather materials” in your
procedure
• Brief – avoid excess language
• Explain inconsistencies in samples
• (2 minutes)
Variables
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independent variable,
dependent variable
Control
Constants
(30 seconds to 1 minute)
Data
• Explanation of observations
• Charts and graphs – you may need several
slides for this section. You should also have a
slide with the results of any statistical tests
that you used to see if your data was
significant. Your discussion should be an oral
explanation of your data.
• LABEL all graphs and axis
• (2 minutes)
Analysis
• Explanation of data
• Significance
• Sources of error or factors that may have
affected your results
• (1 minute)
Conclusions
• Summary – hypothesis supported or not
supported?
• (1 minute)
Future Research
• If you were going to expand your project how
would you do it?
• (30 seconds)
Works Cited
• No need to read – just display