Senior Science Skills Days

Combined workshop: Developing research questions

Skills:

• identify keywords from a research claim
• develop research questions that are relevant and specific to a research claim
• analyse data to answer a research question
• identify limitations from research methodology used.

Workshop A: Scientific literacy through the biology, chemistry and physics of Australian box jellyfish*

Skills:

• identify the components of a peer-reviewed scientific article
• present tables and figures using appropriate scientific writing convention
• analyse a figure and figure caption
• draw a conclusion by integrating two sources of information.

Workshop B: Data Processing and Visualisation*

Skills:

• perform Descriptive Statistics to summarise data using Microsoft Excel
• identify outliers from a dataset using the two-standard deviation method
• recognise mathematical uncertainty, standard deviation, and standard error as ways to interpret uncertainty
• produce a bar graph following genre conventions.
• schools will be provided the sample data set to download prior to your visit. Microsoft Excel is required.

Workshop C: Risk Management*

Skills:

• perform a soil sample analysis, contextualised in forensic zoology
• identify and distinguish between physical, chemical, and biological risks
• identify risk mitigation strategies.

What doors have you opened by selecting to study senior science subjects? (pep-talk by Dr Gurion Ang)