Presentation Menu Choice for Students
                                                                  By:  Amy VanAllsburg

Project at a Glance :

This project is designed for a 4th grade classroom. Our goal is to create a menu of new and innovative ways to present a final product for any PBL solution. At a recent Future PREP’d meet up session, a group of teachers spoke about how our students often choose the same kind of modes to present their final pitch, and we all agreed that it would be awesome to see our students branching out to try a new way of presenting their information, and from there our new PBL project formed.
       
Driving Question:

How Can We Create A New Menu of Presentation Choices That Are Fun and Different?             

Standards:

• Soft skills: Teamwork and Responsibility
• ELA Speaking, Listening, Reading, and Writing Standards
• Impact Fingerprints

Team / Culture Building:

• Values Cards ​

• Bug List - What bugs us about our current ways of presenting project information to  our stakeholders?

​Entry Event:

• Connections - Talk with 5th grade classes , High School teachers, and administrators about their “GO TO” presentation modes.

Stakeholders:

• Students and Staff Members in WO community
• Panelists: Mr. Ghareeb, Mrs. Atkinson, Mrs. James, and Third, Fourth, and Fifth Grade Students
• HighSchool Teachers/Classroom

Empathy Building:

• Analyze School Survey Results
• 7 Learning Styles​

• Kids Learning Style Survey

Inquiry / Need to Knows:

• Panelist Discussion​

•  Pains /Gains  Map  - Students will work in teams to discuss the hard aspects of presenting in front of other people and the gains you achieve from giving presentations. 
• Ted Talk Video:  Learning styles & the importance of critical self-reflection | Tesia Marshik | TEDxUWLaCrosse

Incubation:

• Think of the Opposite - If posters , slideshows, and videos are used for presenting, what would be the opposite type of mode?
• 3-12 -3 Generate as many as ideas as you can related to the DQ. in 3 minutes. Spend 12 minutes developing a situation, and finally 3 minutes presenting.​​

Checking in:

• Whole Class Harkness Circle with Talking Chips
• I LIke, I Wish, What If? - Students will meet in small teams to discuss the activities they have enjoyed, things they wished they could still do in our investigation stage, and what if they could do more before starting the solution stage.

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Solution Building:

•  Story Boarding in Teams
• What are some other unique ways we could share information with our stakeholders?
• Elevator Pitch - Whole Class
• Teams will share out their ideas in a quick, fun pitch.

Critique and Revision: 

• DOT Voting 
• Students will present their final solutions to their stakeholders and get feedback from them on what revisions can be made.
• The panelists will return to see the final pitch, along with West Ottawa High School students from Eric Wilkinson’s and Kristen Renes’ classroom.

Authentic Audience:

•  Students and Staff in the West Ottawa Community

Final Presentation:

• Prototyping - Students will build a prototype of their solution(s).
• Students will have opportunities to choose whatever presentation mode is their greatest strength and develop that part of the Presentation Menu.
• Students will also have choice in deciding what learning style preference icons they want to add for the menu.​​

Reflection and Feedback:

• Survey: Audience Feedback Survey
• Future PREP’d FAST Rubrics - Investigation and Presentation
• Students will create a Jamboard reflection of what they would share if they were having a Fireside Chat to explain the work they accomplished on this project.

Click here for the teacher's Journey through PBL on Padlet . . .

Meet the Educator:

​Amy is an educator at West Ottawa Public Schools. She teaches 4th grade at Lakewood Elementary.

     "Integrating curriculum through PBL experiences has sparked a passion for authentic, real world problem solving in my students. My 4th graders are more actively engaged and enthusiastic about the learning process since I began using the Creative Sequence and Design Thinking protocols. They are gaining empathy for those around them and building employability skills along the way. It is thrilling to witness their excitement!"