McMaster University
Mc Master University: Making Class Presentations [Pdf]
Comprehensive guide with 17 areas of suggestions and tips for delivering a successful class presentation. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF] CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.4, SL.11-12.4 Presentation
University of Michigan
Univ of Michigan: 4 Ps: Plan, Prepare, Practice and Present Your Speech [Pdf]
An outline for designing an effective speech is provided on this site. Steps included in the outline consist of the following: planning to write the speech; preparing to present the speech; and delivery of the speech. SL.9-10.1a...
Cyberbee
Cyberbee: Photo Analysis Guide
This site is a guide to help students analyze visual media. Further research questions included.
Other
Air War College: Speaking Effectively: Preparing to Talk
Use tips from this experienced speaker to help you get through the jitters of public speaking. Explains how to assess your audience and adapt your presentation, how to choose a focus, and how to establish your purpose.
Other
Media Education Foundation: Deconstructing a Video Advertisement [Pdf]
Handout that leads students through an exploration of the visual and audio elements of a video advertisement as well as the effect these elements have on the intended audience and the community as a whole.
Colorado State University
Colorado State Writing Center: Charts
The use of charts and graphs can improve your presentations, whether on paper or as visual aids. Here you can read about how to create line, column, bar, pie graphs, and scatterplots. Just follow the links to their respective pages.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Scaffolding Comprehension Strategies Using Graphic Organizers
A three-part standards-based lesson in which students will use collaborative strategic reading to apply four reading strategies: preview, click and clunk, get the gist, and wrap-up. They will work in cooperative groups while scaffolding...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Oral Presentation Rubric [Pdf]
This reproducible resource provides an assessment rubric to be used with students' oral presentations. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.4
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Introducing Your Speech
Follow these do's and don'ts of writing an effective introduction to a speech that will grab your audience's attention and state your central idea. Use the arrows to move through the information.
Other
Practice and Stage Fright
This site gives helpful tips about public speaking, particularly about storytelling. It provides information on stage fright, and nervousness.
Other
Plu: Designing and Delivering Multimedia Presentations: Why Use Visuals?
The advantages to incorporating visuals into a multimedia presentation are explained. SL.9-10.5 Audio Visuals. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.5, SL.11-12.5 Audio Visuals
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Learn a Word: Science Vocabulary Acquisition
In this lesson, students use multiple sources to learn the meanings of science words, collaborating to create useful resources for learning and retaining science vocabulary.
Other
Inf Ohio: Educational Multimedia Guidelines Tip Sheet [Pdf]
A ready-to-print tip sheet with guidelines for students and teachers about using text, video, pictures, music, and other materials and content sources without violating copyright.
Other
Your Image From the Platform
This site relates your image to your presentation. For example, in speeches to inform, you want people to direct their attention to you so that they understand the information you are providing. This site will give suggestions on how to...
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Nz Ministry of Education: Speech Making
This lesson focuses on speech making including watching famous speakers and noting their language choice, diction, body language, pauses, etc. This is followed by group work practicing the "hamburger" method of writing a prepared speech....
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Giving a Presentation
This Skillswise site focuses on giving a presentation. Included are a video about why learning to give a presentation is important, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction, and quizzes on the information presented. The Skillswise...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Telling It the Digital Way
During this lesson students design, develop, produce, and present a five-minute biographical video highlighting the life of a famous sports spectacular stand-out such as baseball's great Babe Ruth. Downloadable rubrics are provided.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Introduction to Database Management
This lesson introduces students to the concept of organized information in a database. This is an introduction, so there are no computer exercises. A PowerPoint presentation is used as a visual aid for discussion and explanation....
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Movie Madness
This language arts projects motivates students through being a movie-based project. This instructional activity will have a duration of five days. The students will view a movie of their choice and analyze the movie to complete a chart...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Oral Presentation of Favorite Celebrity
Using the Internet to research facts about a favorite celebrity, students gain the organizational and oral presentation skills needed to successfully deliver an effective speech and slideshow presentation.
Other
Realty Times: Open Your Mouth and Say Success!
This site presents two unique approaches to planning a speech for its best impact. It also includes tips for outlining a speech.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Structuring the Instructional Day
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an efficient way of structuring the instructional day using a learning strategy that involves visualization. As a brainstorming activity, students will visualize themselves going to a movie.
Other
Fripp & Associates: Preparing Your Talk
General principles and techiniques for delivering speeches. Target audience, materials, organization and writing and rehearsing speeches are discussed along with many more insights. SL.9-10.4 Presentation
TES Global
Blendspace: Parts of a Presentation Class
A twenty-one-part learning module including links to texts, images, and websites on how to give a presentation in class.