Honors Biology Portfolio Assignment #2

Citizen Science Project

50 points
Goal of assignment:​​ To learn, describe, and participate in research in student’s field of
interest. To share the experience with the class by using a slides presentation.
Due date:​​ Dec 10, 2018
Description:​​ The student chooses a university project which is related to the field-of-interest
portfolio project from the beginning of the school year. Students must choose from projects
which are categorized as ‘citizen science’ within which the student is allowed to enter data for
the researcher. The student enters data for the project, and reports back to the group about the
project. The report shall be in slide format including the following :
1. 5 pts. Title page : Name, class, portfolio topic of interest, citizen science project
name.
2. 5 pts. Team scientists names from the citizen science site, organization or
university from which the scientists are working. Picture.
3. 10 pts. Purpose of the university project.
a. What are they setting out to prove?
b. What is the hypothesis of the experiment?
c. Give background information to deepen the viewer’s understanding.
4. 10 pts. Experimental design.
a. What is the experimental design to prove or disprove the hypothesis?
b. What did the scientists do to generate the data?
5. 10 pts. Data.
a. What did the data look like on the site.
b. What did you have to do?
c. Provide a screenshot of the data before and after input as evidence.
6. 5 pts. Results
a. How will the data help the science team achieve their ​goal?
7. 5 pts. Your insights.
a. How is this project of value?
b. Provide Website URL to your citizen science project.
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Slide design requirements​​:
1. Each slide should be well balanced in design, including color and images.
2. Font should be size 24 and be easily legible from the back of the room.
3. Slides with a lot of text must be adjusted as short text phrases or bullets
or should be divided into multiple pages.
4. Each sentence or bullet is required to be animated so each phrase or
bullet appears one at a time with a keystroke command.