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• 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