Here is a link to a good tutorial on presentations.  The links for oral presentations and effective visual aids are both good.  http://www.kumc.edu/SAH/OTEd/jradel/effective.html

Your presentations will be 12 minutes long, with 8 minutes for questions.  This time limit will be strictly enforced.  A good rule of thumb is that you will use about one slide per minute, so you should construct your power-point presentation with around 12 slides.  That will include a few data slides, a few summary statements, and pictures of your organisms, methods, etc.

Follow the general guidelines in the link I gave at the top of this page.  You will need references to the literature, and you will need to cite them within your presentation and list your references as your closing slide (in proper format, complete citations).  You will need to make your methods clear, but don't go into excessive details.  You will need  appropriate statistical tests clearly displayed on clearly designed figures of your data.

 Your grade will be based on:

1. Overall Clarity--does your presentation proceed logically, do you speak loudly enough to be heard, do you include necessary background without unnecessary details.

2. Introduction--do you engage the audience in your study, do you clearly state your hypothesis and why it was important to address, do you incorporate appropriate literature.

3. Methods--do you give enough information to understand what you did without excessive detail (we measured body length with a small white plastic ruler...)

4. Quality and interpretation of the data--do you have a set of data that allows you to address your hypothesis, do you present this data clearly in figures and explain those figure well, do you present appropriate statistical analysis of your data.

5.  Is your conclusion logical and do you incorporate appropriate literature.

Please print a copy as a "handout" with 6 slides per page.  I want you to turn this in before you start your presentation.