Detectives de animales: Club de investigación y liderazgo

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Please refer to the class video to answer your questions on what is required and how to go about preparing for the presentation.  If you have any further questions, please message me.  Video and required worksheets are available upon registration.

I will create a visually stunning photo slide to accompany your child's presentation as they teach the class.  If they feel confident in creating their own power point or google docs, we can discuss that further and figure out what works, but it is not necessary, as I am happy to create the slides for each learner.

Overview:

Each week, your learner will chose one animal to teach the rest of the class about.  

The goal of this class is to get your animal detective comfortable with researching and presenting in a pressure free environment while building their ✨confidence✨ in their public speaking skills!  This entire skill set will serve them well as they continue on in their educational journey!

Some learners may take up 5 minutes, and others may require more.  Each learner technically has 10 minutes they can use for their presentation, but there is no pressure to make it last that long, as I will always have an animal on the back burner to teach about if we have extra  time left in class.

Upon registering, a guideline will be attached to the course to help your animal detective know where to start, and what information to start digging up!  It is then up to them how they wish to present this information once they have collected all of the facts!

Essentially, the research should show basic facts about the animal (classification, size, lifespan, etc...), unique adaptations that allow it to survive in this world, its habitat and lifestyle, reproduction (does it lay eggs, or give live birth, breeding season, etc...), predators, human impact, conservation efforts, and lastly, the importance of the animal's role in the ecosystem.  This is broken down into more simple terms in the guideline.

To add additional ✨sparkle✨ to the presentation, everyone loves a tricky true or false question, as well as a couple of good trivia questions to conclude the presentation!

Other learners will raise their hands when they have a question, and your learner can pause at a natural stopping point to take any questions as they wish.  I am here to moderate and provide guided instruction, but it is your learner's turn to take the stage!

I am also available for any questions your learner may have as they are preparing for their presentation. I will do my best to respond to messages in a timely manner! 

How it will go:

The week before, each student needs to submit their animal by Wednesday on the class wall below the photo of the question marks, and I will need a photo of their notes by Saturday, so that I can create stunning visuals to accompany their work, and create any true or false, spot the imposter, and/or trivia slides that they want added.  

If they are creating an actual online presentation using power point or google docs, etc... then they can just let me know if there is a video they would like to show about their animal during their presentation, and I will review it and I will play it from my side when the time comes. This is very important.

Students are welcome to draw the animal each student presents and show their drawings at the end of the presentation.

November 5th - Individual Animal Presentations
November 12th - Individual Animal Presentations
November 19th - Individual Animal Presentations
November 26th - Individual Animal Presentations
December 3rd - Individual Animal Presentations
December 10th - Individual Animal Presentations
December 17th - Individual Animal Presentations
December 24th - Individual Animal Presentations
December 31st - Individual Animal Presentations
January 7th - Individual Animal Presentations
January 14th - Individual Animal Presentations
January 21st - Individual Animal Presentations
January 28th - Individual Animal Presentations
February 4th - Individual Animal Presentations
February 11th - Individual Animal Presentations
February 18th - Individual Animal Presentations
February 25th - Individual Animal Presentations
March 4th - Individual Animal Presentations
March 11th - Individual Animal Presentations
March 18th - Individual Animal Presentations
March 25th  - Individual Animal Presentations
April 1st - Individual Animal Presentations
April 8th - Individual Animal Presentations
April 15th  - Individual Animal Presentations
April 22nd - Individual Animal Presentations
April 29th - Individual Animal Presentations

I look forward to helping your amazing young learner grow their confidence in this community of animal lovers that we will create together!