(1) The document provides guidance on planning and presenting a science project. It advises the reader to find an interesting topic that addresses an opportunity in their field or a way to help society. The reader should describe their goal and plan their experiments before learning from any mistakes and reporting on their results. (2) An example topic given is using curcumin to reduce blood pressure. The document notes curcumin is a natural food additive that is claimed to have anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer properties. (3) When presenting, the document recommends using fewer words, more pictures, graphs instead of tables, and focusing on key points while maintaining eye contact with the audience.

1. Plan your science project
and present your results
Dr. Christoph Sontag
Inorganic Chemistry
UP 2014
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2. (1) Find your topic
What are the needs and opportunities
in your field ?
to improve health ?
to make a new test method ?
to simplify common methods ?
to reduce pollution ?
How can I use the resources I have now ?
to solve a personal problem ? 2

3. Check key words ….
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Example: “Curcumin”
Is a popular natural food additive and easy available
Claimed to be anti-inflammatory
and anti-cancer
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4. Important criteria
Product (or model of it) is affordable and available
Simple analytical methods exist
Test methods to show product actions
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5. Often one information leads to another ….
Other chemicals are related … 5

6. (2) Describe your goal
“The goal of science is not
to accumulate knowledge
but to use science for the
benefit of society”
Example:
“Use of Curcumin in patients to reduce blood pressure”
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7. (3) Plan your experiments
your chemicals equipment
analytical methods
Test kit
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8. (4) Learn from mistakes
Mistakes are not bad –
if we can learn from them
Record also what did NOT go well …..
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9. (5) Report and Present
Describe exactly what you did –
so anybody can reproduce it
Explain why you did your experiments
Describe the outcome, even it was not successful
Conclude about further studies
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10. All together ….
1. Find your topic – that interests you
2. Describe your goal
3. Plan your experiments – check all resources
4. Learn from mistakes
5. Report and Present
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11. Advice for Presentations
1. Less text (make it BIG)
more pictures
2. No tables, use graphs
3. Concentrate on the key points
(not details)
4. Eye contact to the audience
max. 1 slide per min
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12. Examples
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13. Synthetic dyes are used in paper and pulp
manufacturing, printing and textile
industries.
Synthetic dyes are used in
• paper and pulp manufacturing
• printing
• textile industries
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14. In a three necked 100ml capacity round bottom
flask, 10ml of 1mM silver nitrate solution was
added through one neck and into the other 5ml of
1.5% by weight aqueous solution of chitosan was
added with continous stirring.
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