Recycling Presentations

Our recycling presentations were awesome!  When the students finished preparing their presentations, which went through several revisions, the students did many practice presentations. Following these practices, they reflected on their performances and received feedback from their classmates and me. We talked about making eye contact with the audience, speaking loudly and slowly, facing their audience, being serious, and not talking to their group mates if something went awry. The improvements were amazing.  

Because it was hard to get a clean video of the children presenting in the classes that we visited (we tried), I decided to tape them presenting to their own classmates in our classroom.  Those are the videos that you will be seeing.  Following our presentations, the class created a checklist to assess how well they presented.  Here is a copy of that checklist: recycling rubric.pdf  Each group sat down and watched the videos of their presentations.  As they watched, they filled out the checklist and reflected on what they learned and how they could improve.  These reflections will be included in their portfolios.

Plastic Bottle Presentations.m4v
Plastic Bottle 2 Presentations.m4v
paper presentation.m4v
Aluminum Can 2 Presentations.m4vPlease enjoy the videos.  I am currently fighting with the computer to have the actual keynotes available.  When I win, I will include them on this page.

***I had the children revise their homework checklist and tables.  If there's any confusion, I put the revised version up in the homework section.

Posted on October 26, 2007 2:49 PM | Permalink