Your group poster presentation should include 4 posters or sections.
Poster #1: Introduction

• Summary of combined preliminary research from the group.
• Provide a list of statements that address what you learned from your research about the interaction of your independent variable with plant growth and reproduction.
• Why do you think your study is an important contribution to the scientific knowledge base?
• Attach a typed bibliography of your sources to the back of the poster.

Poster #2: Experimental Design Flow Chart or Diagram

See the flow chart on page G9 of the lab manual for reference and include these sections:

• Statement of your hypothesis and your original prediction at the top of this section.
• A FLOW CHART of your experimental design including;
• An ILLUSTRATION communicating the basic design of the experiment.
• The specific values of the treatments of your Independent Variable
• A list of Control Variables including types and amounts of materials used. (Control variables include all other conditions that you kept constant for all your treatments. Control variables might be considered as potential independent variables - just ones you did not choose to test.)
• Data collection methods
• Data transformation methods

Poster #3: Results

• Include computer generated or neatly hand drawn graphs for each of your dependent variables.
• Provide a title for each graph.
• Include values for all treatments of one dependent variable on the same graph.
• Label the horizontal axis with the values of the independent variable and the vertical axis with the values of the dependent variable for each of your graphs.

Poster #4: Conclusions:

• Do you accept or reject your hypothesis based on your data?
• Support your conclusions by comparing your results for each of your dependent variables with the information from your original preliminary research as a series of bulleted statements.
• What do you think you have contributed to the scientific knowledge base?
• Explain unexpected outcomes if possible.
• Describe the next hypothesis and experimental design your results suggest.

Each group will present their poster during the last lab meeting of the semester.

• Each research group member will be expected to make a substantial contribution to the development of the posters and the oral presentation.
• Evaluation will be based on the above directions and will include instructor and peer evaluation components.
• Individual lab instructors may modify this standard set of directions to better match the experience of their lab sections.