plan your science project
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5 Steps to find your science project and some hints how to present your resultsTRANSCRIPT
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Plan your science project and present your results
Dr. Christoph Sontag Inorganic Chemistry
UP 2014
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(1) Find your topic
What are the needs and opportunities in your field ?
to improve health ?
to make a new test method ?
to simplify common methods ?
to reduce pollution ?
How can I use the resources I have now ?
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Check key words …. Full articles at: freefullpdf.com
Example: “Curcumin” Is a popular natural food additive and easy available
Claimed to be anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer
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Important criteria
Product (or model of it) is affordable and available
Simple analytical methods exist
Test methods to show product actions
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Often one information leads to another ….
Other chemicals are related … 5
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(2) Describe your goal
“The goal of science is not to accumulate knowledge but to use science for the benefit of society”
Example: “Use of Curcumin in patients to reduce blood pressure”
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(3) Plan your experiments
your chemicals equipment
analytical methods
Test kit
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(4) Learn from mistakes
Mistakes are not bad – if we can learn from them
Record also what did NOT go well …..
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(5) Report and Present
Describe exactly what you did – so anybody can reproduce it
Explain why you did your experiments
Describe the outcome, even it was not successful
Conclude about further studies
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All together ….
1. Find your topic – that interests you
2. Describe your goal
3. Plan your experiments – check all resources
4. Learn from mistakes
5. Report and Present
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Advice for Presentations
1. Less text (make it BIG) more pictures
2. No tables, use graphs
3. Concentrate on the key points (not details)
4. Eye contact to the audience max. 1 slide per min
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Examples
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Synthetic dyes are used in paper and pulp manufacturing, printing and textile industries.
Synthetic dyes are used in • paper and pulp manufacturing • printing • textile industries
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In a three necked 100ml capacity round bottom flask, 10ml of 1mM silver nitrate solution was added through one neck and into the other 5ml of 1.5% by weight aqueous solution of chitosan was added with continous stirring.
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Thank you for your attention
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