Up until now when you’ve done a poster teachers have probably encouraged you to write very little, draw something eye-catching and maybe have a slogan. There is another kid of poster which is a scientific poster and that is very different.
In a scientific poster you need to get people to understand your
Title
Aim
Method
Findings
Conclusions
Research
Applications
This means that your poster will have writing and often quite a lot, but if you can put the information is a graph or photo- as they say a picture tells a thousand words.
Here are some scientific posters from the kind Science Community at Scottish Universities and also some Science on Stage Posters made by teachers about their work in schools, you might recognise some of them.
Don’t worry if you don’t understand all the content, you are using them as an idea of layout and what you need to add in.
Template for your Scientific Poster
Please use the correct template for your class. You can change any part of the slide, except the header.
If the above are still a little too hard try the sheet below. Here I am not asking you to calculate speed distance or time, but can you extract the information from the sheet, write the equation and substitute?
A document on how to succeed in Science has highlighted the following skills and this is what you will be marked on during the HEAT block. Everyone starts with 3 points as an average and you can go down to 0 (not usual) and up to 5 points depending on your contribution. Some skills are so important they count twice in the score!
At the end of an S1 Unit of Science answer the following statements as thoroughly and carefully as possible to help your learning and self evaluation, to help you improve on your Science scores. Show your answers to your teacher and at home.
A. In this topic, I mostly enjoyed learning about ____________________
B. The part I found hardest to understand was ________________________
C. When I got stuck, I _________________________________
D. The most helpful class activities for me were (pick as many as you like):
1. Taking notes from the board,
2. Watching clips,
3. Doing experiments,
4. Listening to the teacher explaining,
5. Watching teacher demonstrations,
6. Whiteboard quizzes,
7. Answering questions in my jotter,
8. Going on the website,
9. Other (please state) ______________________________
E. To revise for my test, I ____________________________
F. Now I wish I had also ________________________________
G. I still find ___________________ hard to understand.
H. I would like to ask about _______________________________
If there is anything else you would like to add let your teacher know.
S2 Forces Unit Material, containing the Assessed Practical and details for plotting graphs in Excel.
Wow! This is an important Physics topic, your first topic in the S2 physics course. All the info you cover in class is given below. We will start at the beginning but can rush through the bits that you’ve covered in primary.
Forces powerpoint and powerpoint pdf file for 2021 onwards
In the back of your jotter write a piece “What I learned about myself in S1 Science” This is not the topics that you covered- I know those, but what did you learn about yourself, your ability to think for yourself, try tasks etc. What skills have you learned .
3
2
Forces Walk
4
Hookes Law table & Hookes Law graph (this is an assessment piece)
5
Literacy Task
6
Answering the mass and weight questions
1st June 2019
All
Revise the work you’ve completed this week and previous weeks
If you haven’t got results for the Hooke’s Law Assessment use the ones below. Copy the results into Excel, find the average extension using the formula =average(range) . Then plot a graph of Weight against average extension.
Weight
Extension (cm)
Extension (cm)
(N)
‘/1
‘/2
0
0
0
1
2.4
2.3
2
4.8
4.8
3
7.2
7.3
4
9.6
9.6
5
12
12.1
6
14.4
14.2
7
16.8
16.5
8
19.2
19.1
9
21.6
21.5
10
24
23.9
There is a separate post on EXCEL with details of how to create a table of results and plot a graph in Excel, which is useful for all students studying Physics, and other Sciences too- a useful life skill.
Mrs Physics is keen to get everyone using software to aid their Physics, so as part of the forces topic you will complete a Hooke’s Law experiment and write this up and use Excel to create your table and graph. The instructions are given in the booklets below. GLOW users and other users of Office 365 will be using the Excel 2016 version, but users of Office 2010 can use the booklets marked 2010.
If you missed the lesson and want to practice use this data here.
Mrs Physics is keen to get everyone using modern software, so as part of the forces topic you will complete a Hooke’s Law experiment and write this up like an old National 5 Outcome 1 and use Excel to create your table and graph. The instructions are given in the booklets below. GLOW users and other users of Office 365 will be using the Excel 2016 version, but users of Office 2010 can use the booklets marked 2010.
We are not expecting you to be competent the first time through (as you can see from this student’s data), but hopefully by the time you get to S4 you’ll be quite happy to plot graphs this way.
In association with the LA Modern Languages Course a language and Science course was written. He is some of the work that we cover. More will be uploaded when I get access to the files.
Charles Messier était un grand chasseur de comètes. Le Roi Louis XV lui donna le nom de Furet des comètes. À 14 ans, il assista au passage impressionnant de la comète de Chézeaux (comète avec 6 queues !)
[Né le 26 juin 1730 à Badonviller, en France. Charles Messier est mort à París le 12 avril 1817.]
Questions de recherche:
Durant sa vie, Charles Messier a découvert combien de comètes?
Charles Messier a observé combien de comètes?
Pourquoi le 18e siècle était-il un moment si important pour les astronomes?
Traducción
ESPACIO
¿Quién es Charles Messier?
Charles Messier, Astrónomo francés, era un gran cazador de cometas. El Rey Louis XIV le nombró El Hurón de Cometas. Cuando tenía 14 años, fue testigo del paso impresionante del cometa Chezeaux (una cometa con seis colas)
[Nació el 26 de junio de 1730 en Badonviller, Francia.
Charles Messier falleció en París el 12 de abril de 1817]
Preguntas de investigción:
¿Cuántos cometas descubrió Charles Messier durante su vida?
¿Cuántos cometas observó?
¿Porqué el siglo 18 fue un período tan extraordinario para los astrónomos?
Some of you have lost the sheets (for the homework that was due today), and don’t know where to find them! Print them at home, and bring them from home, dragging your tails behind you! (By B Peep)
