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Today’s Goals
Today’s Goals
• To understand what consists a scientific presentation
Today’s Goals
• To understand what consists a scientific presentation
Today’s Goals
• To understand what consists a scientific presentation
• To draft an introduction to your scientific presentation
What is a scientific presentation?
Scientific Presentation
A scientific presentation showcases knowledge derived through a scientific method
Scientific Method
Scientific Method
A method of procedure consisting in
Scientific Method
A method of procedure consisting in
• systematic observation, measurement, and experiment,
Scientific Method
A method of procedure consisting in
• systematic observation, measurement, and experiment,
• and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
Scientific Method
A method of procedure consisting in
• systematic observation, measurement, and experiment,
• and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
New Oxford American Dictionary
What is a scientific presentation?
What is a scientific presentation?
It should consist of the following:
What is a scientific presentation?
It should consist of the following:
• Introduction
What is a scientific presentation?
It should consist of the following:
• Introduction
• Methods & Results
What is a scientific presentation?
It should consist of the following:
• Introduction
• Methods & Results
• Discussion
What is a scientific presentation?
It should consist of the following:
• Introduction
• Methods & Results
• Discussion
• Conclusion
What is a scientific presentation?
It should consist of the following:
• Introduction
• Methods & Results
• Discussion
• Conclusion
• References
Introduction
Introduction
• Presents the question the project aims to answer
Introduction
• Presents the question the project aims to answer
• Provides a brief background to the question
Introduction
• Presents the question the project aims to answer
• Provides a brief background to the question
• Offers a hypothesis to the question
Methods & Results
Methods & Results
• Outlines the steps you took to test the hypothesis
Methods & Results
• Outlines the steps you took to test the hypothesis
• Presents the results you obtained
Discussion
Discussion
• Analyzes the results in relation to the hypothesis
Conclusion
Conclusion
• States whether hypothesis is affirmed, refuted or modified.
References
References
• A bibliography of ALL the materials (including images, graphs, charts etc.) you referred to in your project
IntroductionRECAP
• Presents the question the project aims to answer
• Provides a brief background to the question
• Offers a hypothesis to the question
What makes a good scientific question?
What makes a good scientific question?
What makes a good scientific question?
• Has a narrow scope
What makes a good scientific question?
• Has a narrow scope
• Builds on what you already know and on what you can find out
What makes a good scientific question?
• Has a narrow scope
• Builds on what you already know and on what you can find out
• Can be answered using the scientific method
What makes a good scientific question?
• Has a narrow scope
• Builds on what you already know and on what you can find out
• Can be answered using the scientific method
• Has important significance i.e. a high “so what?” value
Refine the following question based on the 4 criteria given:
How has air quality changed over time?
Group work
• Establish a topic of interest.
• Note down what you already know about the topic
• Develop a question for your scientific presentation
• Evaluate the question based on the 4 criteria given