Cultural Connections
Country of the Week Oral Presentation
Date: 9 September 2016 – 2 June 2017
Learning Outcomes:
Date: 9 September 2016 – 2 June 2017
Learning Outcomes:
- Organise thoughts and feelings before speaking
- Present their own point of view and respect the views of others
- Collect, organise, and represent data (including bar and line graphs, 3 ring Venn diagrams, pie charts, Carroll diagrams and tree diagrams) where one object or symbol can represent many data values.
- Interpret and draw conclusions from data using range, scale, and mode on graphs.
- Recognise interrelationships of images, photographs, diagrams, illustrations and written text in constructing meaning.
- Realise that individuals interpret visual information according to their personal experiences and different perspectives.
- Vary pitch, pace, volume, expression and use pauses to create impact
- Show how body language, e.g., facial expression, gesture, movement, posture and orientation, eye contact and touch, can be used to achieve effects and influence meaning.
- Students gave an oral presentation about their home country connected to the Transdisciplinary Theme and are assessed by other students in the class. Their criteria was preparedness, content, speaks clearly, volume, posture, and props.
- The audience must write down three things they learned from the presentation, which assesses their listening skills.
- After the data has been collected, the students will work in groups to figure out each student’s range, mean, median, and mode based on the peer assessments.
- Groups had to create a bar graph to show the mean (average) for each criteria they were assessed on.
- Students wrote a reflection about what they did well on and what they need to improve on next time.
Reflection: This made me a little bit shy because it was the first cultural connection.
Reflection: This was fun and I was nervous that my writing is not enough but they say nothing about my writing.
Reflection: This made me a little nervous.
Reflection: For a long time I did not do this so it made me nervous.