Has your group signed up for a presentation

slot?http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/

seminar3presentations/

Have you met with your ITF to discuss

your project?fiona.lee@gmail.com

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