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SCI 8: Energy: Presentation Tools

What's an Effective Presentation?

Effective presentations communicate your ideas in a way that others can understand easily.

Hallmarks of a good presentation:

  • Clear main idea stated at the beginning and key points that support it
  • Each idea is supported by 1-2 pieces of evidence
  • Clear concise language 
  • Compelling information (anyone could relate to it and understand why it matters)

How to do this:

  • Gather your facts / evidence into categories
  • Come up with a clear opinion for each category
  • Choose only the most important, most convincing facts 
  • Develop a focused main idea and engaging introduction
  • Make connections to our world and extend your thinking in your concluding remarks

You will present your information from your research in a video OR a comic. Check the rubric carefully to see what's required for each option.

Your video or comic will include either an infographic OR a graph. If you choose to include both of these, you are eligible for a 7/8 score

Choose ONE: Video or Comic?

Adobe Spark

A video presentation combines images, video, and narration to convey a main idea and key points.

If you choose to include a graph or chart, be sure to explain what it shows and what it means. Those are two different things!

When you use images or video footage that you didn't create, but sure to include the citations at the end of your video. Call it "image Credits." 

Adobe Spark

Before you begin, complete a storyboard to plan your ideas

Comic Tools

Comic Life "Strip Design"

Storyboard - required before you begin!

 

Choose ONE: Infographic or Graph?

(If you do both, you are eligible for a 7/8)

Infographics

An infographic combines text and images (usually graphics rather than pictures) to visually display a main idea and key points.

The text is very brief - definitely not sentences - and the graphics and the text support each other. 

To plan an infographic, sketch your ideas to brainstorm icons and graphics that will symbolize your points. Think of layout ideas to group your information in ways that make sense.

Examine these infographics. What makes them work well?

Website for creating infographics

Log-in with your amersol google account

​To download: Choose Edit, File, Download as an image

Tips for creating infographics

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Creating Graphs

Creating graphs with Google Sheets

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