PRE: Week 6, Day 3, Friday, October 3, 2008

YOUR ORAL REPORT

In Week 10, you and your partner will do a 3-minute oral report on the animal you are researching. In that report you will:

1. Introduce the animal – What is it? A mammal? A fish? What does it look like? What is its traditional habitat? What are its current numbers?

2. Give the history of the animal. How did this animal come to be either endangered or extinct? What non-sustainable practices resulted in harm to the animal? I want you to be specific here on the issue of sustainability.

3. Report on the current situation. When and how did people realize that there was a problem with this animal? What did people do to try to fix the situation? What are the current numbers and the future of the animal?

MECHANICAL DETAILS

You are expected to have read through section 20 (starting on p. 324) in the handbook in preparation for this presentation.

You are expected to have PowerPoint slides to back up your presentation. However, there are some basic rules of PowerPoint I want you to follow:

*No more than 3 slides per minute of presentation time; 2 is better.
*You must have an introduction slide with your names and the name of the animal – both the popular name and the Latin scientific name.
*No reading off notes or off slides;
*No talking to the slides. Face the audience as you speak.
*Any words on a slide must be in 24 point font.
*All facts must be cited in APA style on the slide and all pictures must be attributed to source – on the slide.

All presentations will be done in the classroom, not the lab. You are responsible for getting and setting up your own computer. You may check out laptops from the lab.

You are to be dressed decently (though not necessarily professionally) for this presentation.

You and your partner will SHARE the speaking time.

I will arrange to have these presentations videotapes. I'll be happy to review your tape with you or to let you copy your part of the tape -- on a time available basis.

There won't be time for questions. However, you will be expected to give your classmates a handout of your most recent up-to-date reference list.

You will be anonymously evaluated by other people in the class as well as by me. However, MY evaluation is the one that will determine your grade.

I reserve the right to bring in other teachers to help watch these presentations.