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Hello to all of you,
Class Project 2, The PowerPoint presentation is due on Tuesday 9-1-13 at 11:59 pm. The description and suggested content are described in the two documents under course materials, “Research Presentation Guidelines” and “Research Presentation Content”. Grading for the presentation of recent research on a specific solar system is given below. Please let me know if I can be of assistance.
Cheers,
Dr. Weston
Grading for Astronomy Presentation (100 Points)
Topic
Points
Title Page 4
Reference Slide 2
APA Citations 2
Reference Quality 2
Use of Research Paper 15
# Information Slides (10-14) 15
# Figure Slides (10-14) 15
Technical Content 15
Recent Research 15
Quality 15
A Scientific Presentation Describing Recent Research on Specific Topic
Title Page
[Every presentation should have a title page that indicates the topic to the reader]
The title page should include the title, your name, course number and date.
Presentation Pages
Use the following types of headings below (
Introduction
, Detectors, Instrument, Measurements, Discoveries, or
Conclusion
) as slides in your presentation. Each figure, data table, graph or supplementary visual page should have an appropriate title.
Introduction
All scientific reports begin with an introduction of some type, no matter what structure is followed in the rest of the presentation. This presentation should summarize recent research on a specific scientific topic related to this course and should summarize information in the research paper done previously. This slide is where you can explain your presentation objectives, argue that the subject is important, and describe the recent work in the context of previous research. You can describe the state of knowledge that motivated the research in the first place and any recent discoveries made on this topic.
Methods and Materials
These slides should describe the methods and materials used in the research being summarized. Each slide should have a title, such as “Blank Spacecraft”, “Blank Instrument” or “Blank Detector”. These slides should include the research setup, equipment, laboratory and/or field procedures) and how the data were analyzed. These pages can also describe the techniques in which the data was analyzed and/or the discoveries were made. This section will vary depending on the type of research to be described. The types of calculations used, such as the laws of physics which apply and why. If you describe experiments that you’ve read about in other sources, please focus on the technical aspects. This section is a good place to describe details of the equipment used, such as detectors or measuring instruments and their precision. If your research topic is theoretical or uses simulations, then the calculation techniques should be described. Images of the equipment or graphs are very useful in these slides.
Results and Discussion
In these slides, you summarize the data from relevant experiments and indicate the important results that the data supports. Each slide should have a title, such as “Blank
Discovery”, “Blank Measurement” or “Blank Result”. What conclusions can be made from the information you have gathered? Did the information you gathered support or refute the original hypothesis? If you have any data tables, equations or phenomenological relations that support your understanding, you can title these slides as “Blank Data” or Blank Equations”.
Present a brief summary of the decisive findings and tentative conclusions. Whereas the introduction section introduces the research question and reviews the state of knowledge in the field that motivated the question, the discussion section explains how the research broadens the knowledge. You can title this type of slide as “Blank Summary” or “Blank Findings”. How precise are the theoretical predictions and/or the data?
How close do the theory and predictions fit with the actual data measured?
Conclusion
What research questions remain? This slide could also include examination of other evidence supporting or contradicting the tentative conclusions. You might title this slide as “Conclusions”.
References
This slide should document the sources that provided you with information used in the paper. References should be listed alphabetically by last name on a separate page at the end of the paper using the APA documentation system. You can title this slide as “Refeences”.
Physics 1800-01, Class Project 2, Recent Research Presentation Specific Solar System Topic
Format
1. Powerpoint presentation using recent research paper and relevant images should be done using research done on the research paper for this course.. If you do not have access to Powerpoint, then use OpenOffice or Word programs.
2. Cover page and reference page should be added.
3. Topic should be same as your research paper, related to the solar system, but specific in scope and not be a main topic in the text book or lecture. Your presentation should be submitted by attaching your presentation to an email sent to the professor by 9-1-13. Your email should have your course number and the title of your presentation in the subject line of the email.
4.
The presentation should focus on recent research (last 10-15 years) related to your topic. You should consider this presentation a way to present the research summarized in your written research paper by using figures, graphs, images and bullet lists in PowerPoint.
5.
5 references minimum, from websites, journals, books, magazines and technical sources. Please use high quality websites, such as NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory and/or Goddard Space Flight Center etc.
6. The presentation should be a summary of recent research, recent discoveries, or comparison and contrast of different scientific techniques.
7. APA citation style should be used for the reference page only. Use the strict website citation style including maximum information displayed in reference page citations.
8. Grading will be based on the following types of slides, title slide, instrument and detector slides, measurements and discoveries slides, references slide using APA citation style, reference quality, presentation format, solar system specific content, recent research content, and the overall quality of the images and presentation. The presentation should have 10-14 information slides and 10-14 image slides (figures from the internet, graphs from the internet, data tables from the internet, all information slides should have a title and at least 5 bullet items.
9. Your presentation should have between 20-28 slides total, with at least 1 information slide on the following topics: title page, introduction, conclusion, reference page. Your presentation should have at least 3 information slides on both the methods and materials topics and the results and discussion topics. All information slides should have a title and at least 5 bullet items.
10. Each of the image slides should have a title and an image.
11. Due date for the final version of the presentation is 9-1-13, 20% penalty for each day late.
Hello to all of you,
Class Project 2, The PowerPoint presentation is due on Tuesday 9-1-13 at 11:59 pm. The description and suggested content are described in the two documents under course materials, “Research Presentation Guidelines” and “Research Presentation Content”. Grading for the presentation of recent research on a specific solar system is given below. Please let me know if I can be of assistance.
Cheers,
Dr. Weston
Grading for Astronomy Presentation (100 Points)
Topic Points
Title Page 4
Reference Slide 2
APA Citations 2
Reference Quality 2
Use of Research Paper 15
# Information Slides (10-14) 15
# Figure Slides (10-14) 15
Technical Content 15
Recent Research 15
Quality 15
