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Recommendations and Presentations: Drum Roll Please ActivityRecommendations and Presentations: Drum Roll Please Activity
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Teach Engineering
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6th - 8th
Subjects
Science
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Duration
1 hr 30 mins
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2013
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Recommendations and Presentations: Drum Roll Please

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Teams analyze the data they collected during the past six lessons and finalize where they will build a survival cavern. They then present their decisions to the rest of the class and justify their locations. 

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asteroids, multimedia presentations, oral presentations, disasters, engineering design, data analysis, technology resources

Additional Tags

asteroid, cavern, Engineering

Instructional Ideas

  • Work with the class to develop a rubric to evaluate the presentations
  • Have the groups create a poster presentation that provides all the information to defend their decisions

Classroom Considerations

  • Teams should have a large-scale cutout of their caverns to place on the big map for their presentation
  • The seventh activity in an unit of eight

Pros

  • The resource contains a set of guidelines for the presentation
  • The handouts also come as Word documents that allow for easy editing

Cons

  • Very little structure provided for the presentations

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