1. Science Presentation Outline and Sequence 7 th and 8 th grade

2. 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

3. Presentation of Title and Problem Name (30 seconds)

4. 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?

5. 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?

6. Hypothesis A clear statement in an “if…., then…” format ( 30 sec )

7. Materials List Include amounts in METRIC only!!!!! ( 30 sec to 1 minute )

8. 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)

9. Variables independent variable, dependent variable Control Constants (30 seconds to 1 minute)

10. 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)

11. Analysis Explanation of data Significance Sources of error or factors that may have affected your results (1 minute)

12. Conclusions Summary – hypothesis supported or not supported? (1 minute)

13. Future Research If you were going to expand your project how would you do it? (30 seconds)

14. Works Cited No need to read – just display