Question Description
Students will provide an explanation on the steps needed to verify a statement. The statement to be addressed by the scientific method is as follows: “Feed a cold, starve a fever.”
- How observations would be made
- What questions would be asked and what information was gathered
- The hypotheses to be formulated and tested
- Who would benefit and who would make use of the information obtained from the study
- What the predicted results would be
- How conclusions would be obtained
Students will prepare a minimum 7-slide PowerPoint presentation and prepare an outline for an oral presentation in the Notes section of the PowerPoint presentation with the following sections:
- Title
- Abstract
- Introduction (with statement of purpose and hypothesis)
- Materials/Methods of Testing (how observations would be made and what questions would be asked and what information was gathered)
- Predicted Results
- Discussion
- Conclusion (based on predicted results)
- References
Students should use a minimum of three scholarly sources. Remember that Wikipedia is not considered a scholarly source.