Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Taking our Notes and Making our Presentation on Colonists

Last week, students spent time researching information about the colonists. Students used their textbook, primary sources, video, and trade books.

Students took notes and are now ready to collaborate to build their presentation. Each group member is responsible for contributing to a slide in the presentation. Our lesson for today was how we need to put "highlights" on the slide so that the text is not overwhelming. Students also were introduced to the "speaker's notes" where they can add additional information to help them when they present.

You can see there are six students working on this presentation at the same time. 






Students will be presenting their portion of the presentation while the rest of the class is taking notes. This will be their first attempt at taking notes while a speaker is presenting. In other words, they have to summarize the information they hear and write down the important parts. A valuable skill to have!