Take a Look!

• Students will need to decide how they will share or present what they discovered.
• Students will need to plan how they will get their classmates involved when they share their answers.
• By thinking about what they liked the most about their work and what they could do better, students reflect on their learning.

Plan Your Presentation

Choosing Your Presentation Type - Planning worksheet to assist with deciding on a presentation format.

Listening Skills - A checklist to give to students to activate understanding of good listening habits

Determining the Form of Representation for Presenting Research – Lesson Grade 2 and up - SBC/UCLA Initiative for the 21st Century

Project Based Learning - Checklists for all levels in writing, science, oral presentations, and multimedia. Create your own for a selection of criteria.

Tips and Tutorials

Kids’ Vid  - is an instructional web site that gives teachers and students the tools necessary to implement video production in the classroom. You can have your video class projects displayed on this site, too. Get your movie ready to premier!

Making a Brochure with Microsoft Publisher - from Bellingham Washington Schools.

Multimedia Tools @2Learn.ca - a collection of tutorials

Playing with Time - There's an entire section, the Toolkit, devoted to teaching students how to make their own movies using a camcorder or stills.

VoiceThread – a powerful new way to talk about and share your images, documents, and videos K-12

ReadWriteThink Printing Press - Create your own newspaper, flyer, booklet, or brochure – great for school projects!

Book Cover Creator - Students can create their own printable book cover. Great for projects!

Technology Tutorials - Short, animated tutorials on technology-related knowledge and skills that are considered prerequisite to successful classroom use. Over 150 currently available, and more added each week. Check out tutorial on concept mapping, searching, creating websites, and much more!

Present Your Work

Assemble Your Project - elementary research process tutorial from the Oregon State Library System

Be Sure! - elementary research process tutorial from the Oregon State Library System

Web Poster Wizard - post your finished project online

Present/Publish Your Project - elementary research process tutorial from the Oregon State Library System

TrackStar - Create your own Track or use one of the hundreds of thousands already made by other educators. Search the database by subject, grade, or theme and standard for a quick and easy activity.

Assess Your Work

Rubistar - Create your own assessments in minutes

BCPS – Created Assessment for elementary featuring oral, written, visual, and community service products - Word format for easy customization.

Reflect

Celebrate - elementary research process tutorial from the Oregon State Library System

Reflective Thinking:  RT - Explains the difference between "critical thinking" and "reflective thinking," and how to promote metacognition in the classroom.

Reflect  and Connect: Activities - Provides thinking activities to use in the classroom.

Question and Fostering Understanding - Here we review the process of reflection

Lifelong Learning:  the Benefits of Lifelong Learning - part of a research guide from the University of New England