SST 2021 Investigative Skills in Science: L29-32 - Writing Abstract & Submission of Draft Written Report

* Communicate research findings using the language of science

$ Write a project report with suitable headings

Strategies

Introduction (5 mins)

+ Introduce students to summarizing their projects using the abstract paragraph.

Development (40 mins)

+ Students will be asked to write their abstract paragraphs in the Google site Blog. They can find samples at

+ The Research Process follows an hourglass approach towards knowledge generation.
It can be summarised using the following hour-glass diagram:

+ There are 4 parts to the abstract:
Part 1: What is the question and the aim of the paper?

Part 2: How is the question solved?

Part 3: What are the specific results?

Part 4: So what? How useful is this to Science and to the reader?

Conclusion (5 mins)

+ Remind the students about the deadline on the 32^nd lesson. They are given 4 lessons for the completion of this section.

+ If they are early, they should start preparing for the poster, video and oral presentation.