How to give a presentation:

• Show your project to Mr. Gaudet and two other students.
• Pass out assessment sheets to each.
• Your presentation should follow these guidelines:
• Let your product be your assistant not the presentor.
• Give an introduction stating your essential question and telling the audience what it is about to hear/see.
• Do not assume that your audience knows anything - define terms, show pictures, give examples.
• Teach don't report. Your job is to introduce your audience to the facts that back up the answer to the essential question.
• Maintain eye contact with audience members.
• Let the audience know that you are open questions.
• Never answer a question with "Nobody knows that answer." or "It just happens." Better to say "I do not know."
• Cite sources throughout, i.e. "As stated in National Geographic....." and at the end in a bibliography.
• At the end restate the essential question and summarize your answer.

• Multimedia computer presentation
• Use Hyperstudio, Powerpoint, or Netscape Navigator Gold
• Create a stack map and a storyboard
• Presentation must have a minimum of 10 cards (slides or pages).
• Use text, graphics, videos, sound and/or colors to enhance learning (not impress audiences.)
• Clearly state your essential question at the beginning and summarize at end.
• Museum display
• Make a display that could be viewed by visitors to a museum.
• The display should contain a poster, and something to manipulate (i.e. a model).
• Your display should make use of graphics, text, videos, sounds, and models to explain all of the important facts relating to your essential question.
• Use computer technology to enhance the display (i.e. type words rather than write them long hand.)
• Your display should be self explanatory. (Although you still must make a valid presentation of it.)
• Create a magazine
• A magazine must contain a cover, at least 3 articles, ads, graphics, and a table of contents
• The magzine should be created using Microsoft Word 6.0.
• All graphics must be inserted into the document (do not physically paste graphics.)
• Monographs
• Monographs should be created using Microsoft Word 6.0.
• A monograph is a one page document that contains a picture and text describing a certain environmental topics.
• The picture should take up no more than 1/4 of the page and text should fill the rest.
• All sources should be properly cited on the page.
• Include:
• common name
• latin name
• other species in the same family
• habitat
• natural history
• eating habits
• level of endangerment
• relationship to humankind
• Elementary School lesson
• Decide on a topic.
• Create and deliver a lesson to an elementary school class.
• Create your own lesson plan.
• Create handouts, props, manipulatives.
• Make an assessment method that will tell your effectiveness as a teacher.
• Enviro-Cards
• Using Adobe Photoshop or Microsoft Word 6.0, create 10 enviro-cards about environmentally significant organisms. (Enviro-cards are similar to baseball cards and measure 2 3/4 in. X 3 1/2 in.)
• The front should contain a quality picture of organism.
• The back should contain facts about habitat, niche, importance, problems, and solutions.
• Whaleboat presentation
• Create a presentation using the whaleboat, Quest.
• The presentation should be aimed at elementary or middle school students.
• The presentation should be around a theme related to the whaleboat (i.e. whlale issues, maritime issues, coastal problems, Great Bay...)
• Contract with a school, arrange to bring the whaleboat to the school, and give your presentation. (See Elementary School lesson for planning requirements.)
• A term paper
• Six double spaced pages.
• Include graphics, charts, tables.
• Two source bibliography
• Typed on a wordprocesser.
• Posters
• Using Adobe Photoshop or Microsoft Word 6.0, create 5 posters about environmentally significant topics.
• Posters muct include graphics, and different sized/colored text.
• Posters must meet the standards of good design (visit Mr. Taylor for ideas.)
• Posters must include: description, habitat, niche, problems, solutions.
• A Radio Broadcast
• Use our AV recording studio to create a radio broadcast.
• Broadcasts must include a well written and informative script.
• Broadcasts should be 5-10 minutes in length.
• Broadcasts should include sound effects.
• Visit the Life on Earth site for sample transcripts.
• You must submit your written transcript when presenting the broadcast.
• An Advertising Campaign
• Use any software or hardware in the MacLab to create a campaign to pitch to students or the community.
• Choose any presentation idea from the list above and get the word out to your target audience.
• Your project should have a clear message, a targeted audience, and be effectively (and tastfully) done.
• (Example:  Try to get students and staff to use less gasoline in their commute to school through a poster campaign.)