PACE Presentation

Completing Your Outline

I. Introduction

• A = your hook or “attention getter”– quote, anecdote, interesting fact, etc.– Do NOT introduce yourself here

• B = Thesis or purpose statement– This is your problem/question– You can introduce yourself here

• C = Preview your main points– Tell your audience what you are going to tell them

• Background, Hypothesis, Experiment, Data

II.Background/Research

• Key terms and definitions• History of scientific concept• Scientists• Et cetera

III. Hypothesis

• What was your guess as to what was going to happen and why

–If _____, then _____ because _____.

IV. Experiment Design

• What kind of experiment tested your hypothesis?• How did you test your hypothesis?• What was (were) your variable(s)?

V. Experiment Steps

• What were the steps in your experiment?

**Remember you are explaining what YOU did—not giving instructions for the panel to conduct the experiment!

VI. Data

• Explain your graph–Explain the axis information–Go through your trial results–Explain averages

*Point to your graph on the screen

VII. Conclusions

• NOT just the end of your speech, what conclusions did you come to?

• Explain what happened• Explain why you think that happened• What changes could be made to change

results?• What would be the next problem/question?

VIII. Questions

• This is the conclusion of your speech• A = Restate problem/question– “In the end, I was/was not able to answer my question

____________.” M. Pishl, 2013

• You may not use this example; it is mine, all mine!!!

• B = summarize main points--conclude– “Through my research, experiment, and results, I learned

many things about __________ that I will use in the future.” M. Pishl, 2013

• You may not use this example; it is mine, all mine!!!

• C = thank audience for attention