Monday, 5 Jan

Objective: prepare visual and oral presentations

Agenda:

Welcome and overview
Respond to the following prompts in your science notebook
1. As you think about oral presentations, are there things that you do especially well and with which you can help your team?
2. What are your weaknesses as a public speaker?
Review scoring rubric
Review guidelines for effective oral and visual presentations
Check this draft schedule
Establish the framework as group.
1. Write outline for oral presentation.
2. Sketch storyboard for visual presentation.
Divide work among your teammates. Make a plan with specific action items and target deadlines for each person on the team. Ensure that each person understands their role.
Work your plan.

Homework

due Wed, 7 Jan: Pretty good draft of oral presentation (pretty good = 90% finished)

due Thurs, 8 Jan: Pretty good draft of visual presentation (pretty good = 90% finished)

Tuesday, 6 Jan / Wednesday, 7 Jan

Objective: prepare visual and oral presentations

Agenda:

Welcome and overview
Initial thinking:
1. Respond to the following prompts in your notebook
  1. What did you accomplish yesterday?
  2. What do you hope to accomplish in class today?
  3. What help do you need from your peers or instructor?
2. Discuss your responses with your peers.
Confirm that each team member is clear about what s/he needs to do.
If you finish your portion of the work early, help your partners.
At least once before the end of class, rehearse the presentation one or more times today in class with your teammates.
Next steps and closing
1. Before leaving class today, coordinate work to be completed prior to our next class.

Thursday, 8 Jan

Objective: work through timing of oral presentation; make revisions to visual presentation

Agenda:

Welcome and overview
Initial thinking: respond to the following prompt in your notebook
1. What feedback do you want from your team as you deliver your portion of the presentation? List three or more things.
Rehearse you oral presentation exactly as you would to engineers next week.
Provide feedback to your peers using these criteria.
Pay attention to content, organization, and professionalism
1. Content
  1. Are you communicating big ideas clearly and concisely?
  2. Have you included the appropriate amount of detail?
  3. Can you answer questions about the project and about the physics clearly and accurately
2. Organization and flow
  1. Does the presentation flow logically from one idea to the next?
  2. Do team members spend approximately the same amount of time talking?
  3. Are the transitions between one speaker to the next smooth?
  4. Is the presentation an appropriate length? (~15 minutes)
3. Professionalism
  1. Are you articulate?
  2. Are you speaking with the appropriate cadence, at an appropriate volume, and with confidence?
  3. Are your posture and body language appropriate?
Identify the areas of strength and areas for improvement.
Articulate what each team member will have accomplished tonight to ensure a successful presentation next week.
Work with your team to refine your oral presentations and visual supplement.
Next steps and closing
1. Prior to leaving, check in with your peers to clarify responsibilities.

Homework

due Friday, 9 Jan: Very good draft (~99%) of oral and visual presentation

Friday, 9 Jan

Objective: rehearse presentation; prepare for presentations

Agenda:

Welcome and overview
Review judges' scoring guide
Rehearse again; this time in front of another team.
Reminder: dress code for presentations = business professional
1. dark dress shoes, dark socks
2. gentlemen: dark pants with belt; clean and ironed shirt; tie; jacket optional but recommended
3. ladies: dark bottoms; if skirt, dark hose; clean and pressed blouse or other business professional top, jacket optional
Think about your oral and visual presentations and review the feedback you received last week.
1. What are YOU doing?
2. What do you think your team needs to do?
3. What help do you need from others?
  1. In what areas did your group excel? Address content, organization and flow, and professionalism.
  2. In what areas was your group the weakest? Address content, organization and flow, and professionalism.
  3. Make a specific plan for today to build on strengths and to minimize weaknesses.
Synthesize your work plan with the plans of your team.
Make a plan for the next two days
1. If you have not already provided feedback from Friday's rehearsal, do so now.
2. Your instructor is willing to print colored pages this afternoon and before school tomorrow. If you want printed slides in color, submit a link in this form<end of the day
3. With your team
  1. Share what you have accomplished so far
  2. Clarify what you still need to do
  3. Identify areas where you need help
4. Make time to run through your presentation at least one more time
  1. Exactly as you intend to deliver it to your evaluators later
  2. Ideally in the same location as your presentation [see schedule above]
Implement your plan
Next steps and closing
1. Reflect on progress
2. Assign homework as appropriate.

Homework

self-assigned