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.