Introduction
Grab a suitcase, and head to the airport. We are heading out to visit the Rainforest. Which animal will you be for a day?
Task
Your job is to help your team members observe and analyze an animal in the rainforest. Have fun exploring.
Process
Step One: Teacher will assign each group of five (depending on class size) a specific rainforest animal.
Step Two: Students will use the websites provided below to research the animal they were assigned.
http://www.rainforestanimals.net/
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/rainforest/Animals.shtml
Step Three: Students will analyze and fill out details about their animal on a sheet provided below.
Step Four: Students will then use the information gathered to create a powerpoint for their animal as a group. All students must participate in helping create it and also when presenting.
Step Five: After the worksheet and powerpoint are finished, each individual student will use a piece of paper and fill out a journal as if they are the animal they were assigned for a whole day.
Step Six: Each group will present their powerpoint to the class. While this is going on, the following students will fill out information about the animal being presented on the worksheet already provided. At the end, the students will turn in their powerpoints, journals, and worksheet.
Evaluation
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4 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
Total |
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Information Collected (Content) |
All content of the presentation is accurate. There are no factual errors |
Most of the content is accurate. There is 1 piece of information not supported |
The content is generally accurate. One piece of information is inaccurate |
The content is confusing. Contains more than 1 factual error |
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Organized |
Presentation is clearly organized and includes all the information needed to understand the topic |
Presentation is organized and includes most of the information needed to understand the topic |
Presentation is poorly organized and is missing more than two key elements that impact understanding |
Presentation organization and several missing key elements strongly impacts the understanding of the topic |
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Creativity of PowerPoint (text, images) |
Presentation is attractive and appealing to the viewer. At least three images |
Presentation is attractive and appealing to the viewer. At least two images |
Presentation is somewhat attractive with only one image |
Presentation is boring and does not contain any images |
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Spelling and Grammar |
Presentation has no misspellings or grammatical errors |
Presentation has 1-2 misspellings or grammatical errors |
Presentation has 3-4 misspellings or grammatical errors |
Presentation has more than 4 misspellings or grammatical errors |
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Presentation |
Spoke clearly, had good eye contact |
Mostly spoke clearly and had good eye contact |
Sometimes spoke clearly, and had fair eye contact |
Never spoke clearly and poor eye contact |
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Total out of 20 |
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Conclusion
Now that the students have learned about multiple animals living in the rainforest it can spark their interest to learn about more animals. Also, students have now become more familiar and experienced with the program PowerPoint in an interesting and fun way.