Fieldtrip Proposal Feedback
EDUC 4552 – Spring 2014
Here are a few suggestions to make your presentation run smoothly:
- Document your trip with as many pictures as possible and come up with a slideshow to illustrate your presentation. It will greatly enrich your presentation and give clarity to your audience. You can use a multimedia presentation and anything that you deem important to present your topic in a creative and focused way;
- You will need to have a handout for every participant (in our case, there are ten students and one instructor). Keep your handout for distribution to one page. It should just have an outline of your presentation as you plan it. This will be your ‘program’ and we should be able to follow it as you have planned it;
- Be creative but realistic with your lesson plan. Please make sure that your content, activities and trip itself are connected with something that happened before your class left and that it creates opportunities for in-depth follow-through with your students;
- Keep your presentation to 15 minutes (at max) – but if you go over a bit don’t stress – you should have fun with this project and you should be able to make connections clear;
- You will also have ~ 10 minutes for a Q&A from the class about your project;
- Plan on including a “walk-through” of your lesson plan to give the class an idea of how you would incorporate the fieldtrip with pre and post-learning activities. Save the details of your lesson plan for me, in your written plan. If your fellow students want to learn more about it, they will ask questions that you can answer during the Q&A at the end.
- Your presentation and submitted materials should include a clear link between your fieldtrip lesson plan and material discussed in class. Be creative in incorporating the topics we discussed and read about.
What to submit as your final exam (all materials should be uploaded onto your website under a separate page titled, “Fieldtrip Project”):
Obs: Everything that you have prepared for this final presentation can be submitted in an electronic format, including the handout that you will distribute to the audience.
- 1 fieldtrip lesson plan – with a complete header (your name, place you went, grade you planned this for, standard, etc);
- One statement detailing how you would adapt your plan to meet the needs of a group older/younger than the one you are planning for;
- 1 presentation slideshow (i.e.: keynote, power point, prezi, etc.);
- 1 handout;
- 1 Reference List: a list of books, and/or resources that you used to plan for your presentation;
- 1 children’s book that you have planned on using as part of your plan. If you can’t find it, I am happy to check it out of a public library for you.
Here is an outline for your final presentation (this is just a suggestion. Feel free to change it and be creative with this process!):
A- Intro – Distribute handouts here.
- A brief intro re: where you went;
- Grade that you will address;
- Why you would take students to your place of choice;
- What you would have done prior to the trip to give us contextual background;
- What does this fieldtrip have to do with 4552?
B- Slideshow (this can be incorporated into the lesson plan walk-through);
C- End with Q&A.
Note: If you decide to use a slide presentation, a word of advice: use Guy Kawasaki’s model of successful presentations by using his “10-20-30” approach:
What is the 10-20-30 Rule for slide presentations?
Guy Kawasaki framed his 10-20-30 Rule for PowerPoint as:
- 10 slides are the optimal number to use for a presentation.
- 20 minutes is the longest amount of time you should speak.
- 30 point font is the smallest font size you should use on your slides.
Enjoy organizing the final stages of this project!
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