 key ideas prerequisites and misconceptions key ideas introduced in this unit scientific discussion and argument are part of scientific research data interpretation is different from data collection effective oral presentations and posters communicate scientific research concepts and relationship  scientific research is never done the same set of data can be used for many different scientific discussions there are several means of scientific communication it is necessary to make the transition from data collection to data interpretation vocabulary  scientific argument a discussion challenge and or validation of a researcher s findings scientific poster a storyboard that describes a research project student prerequisites  grammar and punctuation sentence structure and paragraph development misconceptions about mercury  scientific argument is a fight or a personal attack i ve made posters in art class so this is the same thing good grammar sentence structure and spelling don t count because this is science class the data didn t support my hypothesis and i got it wrong so what s the sense of writing about it  mercury in watersheds key ideas presentation  