Overview
Presentation Requirements:
For this project, you will be working towards creating a PowerPoint that you will present in Week 5. In Week 1, you will complete an activity in lab called "Choose Your Own Path". This activity is designed for you to make decisions about a hypothetical life you might choose for yourself. With each choice that you make, your carbon usage (and thus your contribution to global climate change) is impacted. The goal of this activity is to help demonstrate how your choices in daily life can contribute to the overall warming of the earth.
Once you have worked inside the activity, you will submit portions of the presentation each week as a lab assignment.
Week 1: You will choose your path.Week 2: You will write an outline that includes your planned topics.
Week 3: You will do research for primary and secondary literature and you will construct your reference slide.
Week 4: you will submit your presentation through Turnitin.
Week 5: you will present your findings using the PowerPoint presentation that you have created to explain your choices and the resulting impact on your carbon footprint. You will record and submit your assignment through a Studio presentation.
The following guidelines can help you as you work on the components of your presentation.
- Your presentation is to be based on the Choose Your Own Path activity you completed in Week 1. You will use this activity to help you think about and then write about the individual impact you have on the carbon in the Earth’s atmosphere and the changes you can make that might alter that impact over your lifetime.
- You are expected to have at least 3 independent, reliable, and unbiased scientific sources for this presentation. Two of your sources must be written by scientists (primary literature). These sources are used to support the ideas you present to explain the impact your choices in the Choose Your Own Path assignment had on the world around you.
- You should incorporate ideas we cover over the term into your work. This includes but is not limited to carbon sequester, photosynthesis, organism relationships, climate change, agricultural practices, and nutrient cycling.
- Your presentation will:
- include in-text citations and a reference slide with your sources in APA format
- be named and saved as FirstLastName_BIO122Project
- have limited quotations (no more than 1-2). You must explain the research you do in your own words.
- include your own interpretation of the scientific concepts we study and apply to the Choose Your Own Path activity. These concepts will be interpreted and explained by you and should then also be cited. You are able to use articles found on Google Scholar and the online library, and your textbook as sources.
- There is no slide requirement for the presentation. Use the space you need to explain your ideas thoroughly. A good estimate is 8-10 slides.
- Your presentation should be 3-5 minutes in length and should explain your results and their impact on your carbon footprint.