Helpful Hints for Making a Great Owl Project Powerpoint

Basic Requirements to Include in the Powerpoint

• Ten slides (see directions for details)• Photo of your prey skeleton (Slide 5) • Data Tables 1 – 6, plus a table with

data used for your comparative question.

• Graphs of Tables 4 & 5, plus a graph illustrating your comparative question.

• Rest of Lab Report -- with a few differences!

• You record yourself reading certain parts.• Your procedure is a little different.

Keep this in mind!

• You should have very factual words on each slide!

• Mostly, you will be recording the words.

• However, be sure to include the important words, like “Introduction,” “Methods,” Discussion,” etc.

Slide 1: Title Slide

• Interesting & attractive title• Your full name• Your period # & science code

Include pictures or designs to

catch your viewer’s eye!

Slide 2: Introduction

• Put a picture (or more than one) on this slide – you don’t need written words beyond the word, “Introduction”!

• Record yourself reading your Introduction. (Don’t put the actual printed words on the slide!)

• Speak clearly and loudly with good enunciation and expression.

• See lab report instructions for details about introduction.

Slide 3

• Your original comparative question and your prediction or hypothesis.

• Include appropriate picture.

SLIDE 4: Procedure/MethodsInclude a picture (or pictures) along with a recording of you describing what we did.

UNLIKE A USUAL LAB REPORT!

We usually write it step by step like a recipe.

INSTEAD, describe it in narrative form, first person, past tense. e.g., “First we broke the pellet into two pieces. Then we carefully probed with a toothpick…”

You can find pictures from previous years at the end of this slide show and on SchoolWires. If you want to use some of them, feel free to copy them.

Slide 5: Photo of Skeleton• Be sure to label

the type of prey animal.

• You may borrow my camera or bring your own to school. (You may use your phone.)

• This is a Pocket Gopher

Slide 5, cont. AND a Picture of Living Prey Animal

Make sure you label it! Duuuude! I’m a pocket gopher with my skin and fur still attached! How’s it

goin’? Seen any barn owls around?

Slide 6: Data Tables• 1 – 6 • You can scan yours OR download

them from the webpage, fill in your data on the computer, and simply copy and paste them into the powerpoint! (If you need help, I can show you how!)

• Make sure they are completely filled in and all your calculations are correct!

Here is an example with totally made

up data.

I pasted it as an image.

(Tables have different

numbers than yours!)

DATA TABLES

Table 2: Summary of Individual Owl Pellet Contents Prey animal found Number of each Non-prey items found

vole

3

straw mouse

1

shrew

1

Table 3: Types of Prey Animals found in Owl Pellets – Class Results (Period: __6__) Animal Vole Pocket

Gopher Mouse Shrew Rat Bird Mole Total

# found

48

8

6

5

2

2

1

72

Percent

67%

11%

8%

10%

3%

3%

1%

100%

Percent = (# found)/(Total number of animals) x 100% Table 4: Number of Prey Animals per Pellet – Class Results (Period: ___6__) Prey Animals per pellet

1

2

3

4

5

6

≥7

Total # of pellets in class

Total # prey animals in

class #students w/ea amt. of prey animal

1

6

5

3

4

2

0

21

72

Percent

5%

28.5%

24%

14%

19%

9.5%

100%

Percent = (Number of students with each amount of pellets) /(Total number of pellets) Table 5: Period 6 Statistics Average number of prey animals per pellet (mean)

Number of prey animals contained by most pellets (mode)

Lowest to highest number of prey animals in one pellet (range)

3.4

2

1 - 6

Average number of prey animals per pellet = Total Number of prey animals in class Total Number of pellets in class

Slide 7: Bar Graphs

• You should have these on Google Drive, one for Data Table 4 & one for Data Table 5.

• Graph the numbers, not the percentages.• Make sure they have descriptive titles and

detailed labels.• On the next page are examples of graphs:

SLIDE 8 – Data table & Graph Related to your Comparative Question

Important! Make sure you say where you got the data from! This could be:

Carolina Owl Pellet AppOld Brookside DataA scientific paper (Use citation I provided.)

Slide 9: Discussion

• Include the word “Discussion” and a nice picture (or pictures) and record yourself reading the answers to the analysis questions.

• DON’T read the questions or even the numbers of the questions, just the answers!

• Make sure they are thoroughly answered and supported with your data!

• Read slowly, clearly, and with good expression.

SLIDE 10 - CONCLUSION

• Include the word “Conclusion” and a nice picture (or pictures) and record yourself reading your conclusion.

• Read slowly, clearly, and with good expression.

That’s it!• However, you can always add MORE! • See your rubric for more details.• Ideas: music, animation, extra slides, extra

pictures, an original poem read by you, an original song sung by you, etc!

Oh, dear. We are

tired just

thinking about

all this work!

Idea for an extra slide: Barn Owl Food Web

• Include all prey animals found in your class.

• Include the barn owl of course!

• Make sure every organism in the web has an energy source.

• Make sure your arrows are showing the flow of energy.

• There is an explanation of food webs in the text if you are unclear on the concept.

• You may draw it and scan it or make it on the computer.

Example of a food web:

Pictures from previous yearsCopy and paste any of these you want! I have also shared a file with you on Google Drive with pellet

pictures that you may use in your slide show.

The End!