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Recommendations and Presentations: Drum Roll Please

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This Recommendations and Presentations: Drum Roll Please activity also includes:

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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Concepts
asteroids, multimedia presentations, oral presentations, disasters, engineering design, data analysis, technology resources
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Additional Tags
asteroid, cavern, Engineering
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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
NGSS
MS-ETS1-2