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Final Stage - Demonstration

Preparing For The Presentation

Rubric Directions:

Student presents their project (including artifacts from the investigation, research, action, and
awareness steps) in a 10-minute presentation using digital tools as a visual aid. Presentation is
completed on deadline assigned. Student shows preparedness and effort in presentation.
The 10-minute presentation will give you a chance to share your accomplishments with your
classmates. Review each of your reflections and the artifacts you used/discovered in each of the
rubric stages: Investigation, Research, Action, and Advocacy and explain your community issues to
the class, along with what you did to help this issue. Use the below tips as a guide and remember to
PRACTICE BEFORE YOU PRESENT!
TIPS:
1. Use note cards to help organize your presentation. You should not read off a sheet of paper or
read off the Powerpoint/visual aid. Practice in front of the mirror to see how much you need to
rely on your notecards. (lets create your first note card together)
2. Keep your introduction short. Introduce yourself and you must include the project Driving
Question and other information you feel is important to help your audience understand the
community issue. The driving questions helps the audience understand what your presentation
will be covering. It makes it more interesting.
3. When using your digital tool keep the text to a minimum, but be prepared to talk about it
and add more information in your speech.
a. Digital tools can be: Powerpoint, create a video (5 minutes max), picture slideshow,
prezi and other forms.
b. Check the font size. Make sure people from a distance can read it.
c. Bullet the points you will be discussing. Do not write out paragraphs
d. Use pictures, graphs, and charts to get your information across. No selfies please ;-).
4. Speak slowly. Pause when you need to take a breath.
5. Project your voice loud enough for everyone to hear.
6. Do not agonize over mistakes dont say youre sorry, keep going.
7. Express your personality smile, laugh, joke if necessary.
8. Ask if anyone has questions at the end of a point you have made or presentation.

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9. The most important thing is to make sure your presentation is interesting to your audience.
Get them excited about it as much as you are!
10. Remember, giving a presentation is hard work, make sure that youve done enough research
on your issue and practice, practice, practice!.

Visual Aid

The visual aid you use (PowerPoint, Prezi, picture slide

show, video, ect.) should explain what you did for each
stage of the project.

EXAMPLE: Your PowerPoint or Google Slide might

look like this:

Slide #1: Introduction

Driving question
Your name and class

Slide #2: Stage 1 - Investigation

Include your need

Include 5 facts about your need (not the organization)

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Slide #3: Stage 2 Research & Planning

Who is your partner

5 facts about your partner

Slide #4: Stage 3 Action (and Advocacy)

Explain what you did for your action

Explain what you did for advocacy (this is part of
action)
This can be 2 slides.

Slide #5: Stage 4 - Reflection

Reflect on your experience

Use the reflections you already wrote to inform audience.
Would you do this again? Why? Explain.
Explain how you could improve on this project
next year.

After 7 slides people get bored unless you have many pictures to show us. Use lots of
pictures!

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Keep the text to a minimum. We want to hear you explain, not read on the board. Bullet
your point in a few words, but explain to us in detail what is not on the board.

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Stage 5 Demonstration/Presentation
Things to consider when presenting. (You are not graded on this, but should practice)
Criteria
Approaching
Beginning
Highly Competent
Competent
Categories
Competency
Competency
Stands straight &
Either uses
Uses no
Posture or
still.
Uses
meaningful
meaningful
movement
Body
movement &
movements or
movements &
interferes or
Posture &
Posture
to
add
to
does
not
shift
or
leans
or
shifts
distracts from
Movement
their message.
lean.
weight.
presentation.
Maintains
consistent eye
Eye
contact with entire
Contact
audience. Does
not stare at
SmartBoard whole
time.
Consistently uses
Facial
Expression facial expressions
that enhance their
message.
Uses purposeful &
natural gestures
Gestures
that compliment
the message.
Speaks loudly &
Volume
comfortably to be
Projection
heard by entire
audience.
Speaks with vocal
Vocal
Expression/ expression &
Enthusiasm enthusiasm to
create interest &
attention.
Introductio The topic &
n
purpose are
Essential
clearly stated
Question

Maintains eye
contact with
most of
audience; most
of the time.

Only
occasionally
looks at
audience.

Has no eye
contact with
audience.

Facial
expression are
natural &
positive.
Uses gestures in
the
presentation.

Little variance
in facial
expression.

Uses no facial
expression.

Uses no
gestures in the
presentation.

Speaks loudly &

comfortably to
be heard by
entire audience.
Speaks with
natural vocal
expression, but
needs more
enthusiasm.
Either the topic
or purpose is
clearly stated.

Speaks softly
causing some
audience
discomfort.
Speaks with
some vocal
expression or
enthusiasm.

Gestures
contradict or
distract from the
message.
Cannot be
heard.

The speaker
attempted to
state the topic
or purpose.

Topic & purpose

are not stated.

Credibility

The speaker uses

their own
experiences &
research to create
their credibility to
speak on this
issue.

The speaker
uses either their
experiences or
research to
create
credibility.

The speaker
establishes
limited
credibility.

The speaker
does not
establish their
credibility.

Body-

The speaker

The speaker

The speaker

The speaker

Speaks with
little or no
expression or
enthusiasm.

signals & follows a

clear & logical
Organizatio
organizational
nal Pattern
pattern.

uses a clear
organizational
pattern.

Closure is signaled
by reviewing &
Conclusionapplying the main
Restateme
points to the
nt/
driving question.
Review

Closure is
signaled by
restating the
driving question
& main points.

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attempts to
appears to use
use a pattern.
no
organizational
pattern.
Either the
No restatements
purpose
are made.
statement or
main points are
not clearly
restated.