What are some key observations that lead the researchers

Questions:

1. What does the title of the paper tell you about what you are going to read?
2. A picture of the sketch you drew from reading the abstract
3. What do you know about Figure 1 from just reading the title and the abstract?
4. What are some key observations that lead the researchers to propose this experiment?
5. What was the research question the authors wanted to answer?
6. What was their hypothesis?
7. What did they predict based on their hypothesis?
8. What type of study did they conduct?
9. What is the key point from this article that you want to highlight in your summary?
10. Explain two or three pieces of evidence from the paper that support this point.
11. Explain the part of the methods that would be necessary for someone who has not read this paper in order to make sense of the results you are explaining.