Green Ambassadors


	Index Introduction Becoming a Sustainability Expert California Science Standards California ELA Standards How to Be a Green Ambassador Unit: Creating an Earth+ Photo Story Unit: Delivering an Earth+ Presentation Unit: Creating and Delivering an Earth+ Presentation Unit: Writing an Earth+ Script Unit: Producing an Earth+ Video Documentary Unit: Creating Earth+ Marketing Materials Unit: Producing an Earth+ Event Unit: Earth+ Social Marketing Unit: Producing an Earth+ Fundraiser Unit: Earth+ Public Relations Training Unit: Planning and Delivering an Earth+ Elementary Lesson Unit: Creating an Earth+ Game Unit: Creating Earth+ Alternative Marketing

Teaching Guide: Creating and Delivering an Earth+ Presentation
Summary	Students analyze a slide show presentation so as to evaluate its strengths and weaknesses, then work in groups to plan and create a new slide show on a green topic of their choice. Note: It is recommended that students complete the Lesson Delivering an Earth+ Presentation prior to this lesson.
Guiding Questions	What makes a slide show presentation effective? How are effective slide show presentations produced?
Objectives: Language Arts	Standard NL-ENG.K-12.4 COMMUNICATION SKILLS Students adjust their use of spoken, written, and visual language (e.g., conventions, style, vocabulary) to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences and for different purposes. Concepts Presentation Talking points Skills Using software to create a slide show
Objectives: Science	TBD
Objectives: Sustainability	TBD
Objectives: Values	Students believe that they have a responsibility to contribute to the well-being of their community. Students work to gather and share knowledge that supports the well-being of their community. Students encourage other community members to engage in practices that contribute to the well-being of their community.
Materials	TBD
Assessment	In the performance task for this lesson, students create and deliver a presentation about a topic of their choice to a new audience. (View Performance Task here)
Day One
Preparation	Set up the slide show The Meaning of Green for presentation to the class. (View flash version here) (Download Power point version here) Make enough copies of the Checklist for an Effective Earth+ Presentation for each student. (Download here) Set up the slide show Composting is Easy for presentation to the class. (View html version here) (View/download Quicktime version here)
Into	Orient students to the objectives of this lesson and review the basic elements of the Performance Task. In so doing, guide students to understand that a "presentation" is "something that is presented to an audience", as, for example, a film or slide show. Talk about examples of this definition of presentation until you are sure that this concept is understood. You may wish to also tell students that there is another definition of "presentation": "a talk given to a group in order to give them information about something and/or to persuade them to agree with a point of view or to act in certain ways". Explain that it is the former type of presentation that you will be talking about in this lesson, and that in another lesson they will learn how to deliver effective talks using slide show type presentations. Show students the presentation The Meaning of Green, narrating it per the notes. Ask them to work in teams to respond in writing to this prompt. What did you think was effective about the slide show you just saw?
Through	Discuss some responses to the prompt, then ask students to work in groups to respond in writing to this prompt: Write down the qualities of effective and ineffective slide-show presentations, in a two-column list format. Share out the responses, making a master list on the board. Distribute the Checklist for Effective Earth+ Presentations, and review it with students. Discuss whether or not you would add any items to the checklist based on what you have talked about in class today, and have students write in on their copies any additions that the class as a whole decides to make. Tell students to keep these checklists, since they will be using them. Show students the "Composting is Easy" presentation, and have them work in terms to evaluate it, using the checklist. Share out their responses.
Beyond	Ask students to go through the checklist and choose the 3 items they feel are most important, and explain, in writing, why they think so.
Day Two
Preparation	Make enough copies of the handout Earth+ Marketing Worksheet for each pair of students. (download here) Make enough copies of the handout Earth+ Talking Points Worksheet for each team of students. (download here) Make enough copies of the handout Earth+ Talking Points Worksheet Example for each team of students. (download here) Make enough copies of the handout Earth+ Presentation Story Board for each team of students. (download here)
Into	Discuss student responses to the "beyond" assignment from last class; collect their work if you wish. Have students respond to this prompt individually, in writing: What message do we want to deliver to our audience about recycling?
Through	Tell students that their goal today is for each team to develop a story board for a slide show presentation on recycling. Explain that a "talking point" is "an important, basic idea in a presentation". Compare it to the main ideas of the paragraphs of an essay. Explain that talking points are the backbone of a presentation, and that each talking point is supported by other statements and by the visual aids used. Have students work in pairs to fill out the Earth+ Marketing Worksheet for a recycling presentation, then compare their worksheets in their working groups so as to produce one worksheet per group. Share out some of this work. In a class discussion format, list out some talking points about recycling on the board, just enough to be sure that students understand what a "talking point" is. Choose one or two of the talking points and discuss how that point could be supported by information or images. Distribute the handout Earth+ Talking Points Worksheet Example and review it to ensure that students understand the relationship between the main message of a presentation, the talking points, and the support for the talking points. Have students work in groups to fill out the Earth+ Talking Points Worksheet for the recycling presentation. (Tell students that in the "support" section for each talking point, they should describe images that could be used as well as facts and ideas.) Share out some of the results of this work. Have students work in groups to fill out the Earth+ Presentation Story Board for the recycling presentation.
Beyond	Ask students to spend some time before next class working with a slide show program such as PowerPoint or Keynote, so that they have some familiarity with how it works.
Day Three
Preparation	Make enough copies of the handout Tips for Creating an Effective Earth+ Presentation for each team of students. (Download here) Make enough copies of the Checklist for Earth+ Presentation so that each student can use the checklist with every other member of his/her group. (Use the version that the class agreed upon on the first day of the lesson.) Work out how to provide students with sources of images (pictures and graphics) for their slides. Be sure to check out the sources suggested on the Green Ambassador Web Resources page.
Into	Distribute the handout Tips for Creating an Effective Earth+ Presentation, and have each team read through it (one person in each team can read it aloud). Then ask teams to respond to this prompt in writing: What do you think is the most important tip in the section "Creating the Presentation". Why? Share out responses.
Through	Students work in teams to create their recycling slide presentations. Student teams evaluate their presentations, using the Checklist for an Effective Earth+ Presentations from the first day of the lesson, and revise their presentations accordingly. Each team presents its presentation to another team, gets feedback, and again revises their presentation accordingly.
Beyond	Students make arrangements to deliver their recycling presentation to a new audience, as described in the Performance Task for this lesson.