Final Presentations
Originally created by Laurie Beaman from AISD and adapted and remixed by Sarah Morris from Nucleus Learning Network. With support from Victoria O'Dell, Mateo Clarke, Ashley Fisher, and Robert Friedman.
90 minutes total with the option to break activities into smaller chunks of time
Lesson 6 of 6 in the Budget Party Curriculum
Guide your learners as they finalize their presentations and infographics. Give your learners experience creating infograhpics using online tools. Help them strengthen their critical thinking, design, presentation, and communication skills while practicing skills like evaluate and design.
Web Literacy Skills
21st Century Skills
Learning Objectives
- Learners will synthesize the main decisions of their proposed budget into core beliefs and a “platform”.
- Students will explain their choices and budget for the City of Austin in a presentation.
- Students will assess their learning throughout this project and reflect upon what they have gained from the process of creating a budget for the city.
Audience
- Ages 14+
Materials
- Projector
- Computers or laptops with Internet access
- Google draw or a comparable infographic creator
- Index cards
- See all Budget Party worksheets, broken down by lesson in this Google Drive Folder.
- Presentation Notes Worksheet
- Group Core Beliefs Worksheet
- Assessment Overview
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Preparation and Introduction
Learning Progression
In this lesson, learners will:
- Finalize the creation of their budget presentation and budget infograhpic.
- Share their budget and their infographic with their peers
- Reflect on their learning.
Scaffolding and Resources
In previous lessons learners applied their knoweldge and understanding to creating their own budgets. In this lesson, learners will share their budgets with an audience through an oral presentation and with an infographic.
Preparation Instructions and Facilitation Tips
You can print out the worksheets and information packets or have your learners view and complete them online depending on your technology situation.
Divide your learners into cooperative learning groups to complete the activities.
Vocabulary
- Infogrpahic
- Platform
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Activities
75 minutesWarm-Up Activity 1 - 10 minutes
- Collaborative groups will re-convene and remember their budget work from the previous class by coming up with a list and defining their group’s core values based on their budget decisions.
- They will fill in five sentences that start with “We believe...." "Therefore....” These sentences will reflect the decisions they made in their budget, almost like a “budget platform”.
- They will then come up with a catchy phrase that also reflects the main priorities/”platform” behind their budget. They will turn this in with their infographic.
Activity 2 - 15 minutes
- Groups will be allotted time to review, finalize and work on their presentations.
- Tip: You may want to give them a list of helpful hints for effective presentations if you do not regularly have them present in your class.
Activity 3 - 50 minutes
- Each group will take approximately five minutes to present their infographic that they have created that clearly presents their budget decisions.
- As they present, their peers will note which items of the budget they gave priority to in funding and which they chose to make cuts from.
- At the end, students will complete a silent ballot in which they select a group (with clear reasoning for their selection) that had the best budget.
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Reflection and Assessment
15 minutesClosing Reflection Activity
- Learners will reflect on what they have learned from this project on three index cards that they place on the board or on poster paper that they can write on like a “chalk talk” around the room. They will be guided by three questions.
- What is something you will take away from this project?
- What is something you learned about the city that you did not know before?
- How has this project helped you become a more informed resident of your city?
Optional Extension Activity
- The group voted to have the best budget and presentation can be selected to be the class representative for an extension activity. This group will further their project experience through “advancing” to present their budget to selected groups from ten different local campuses. This will take place through a videoconference hosted by either a Skype session, Google Hangout, or a similar platform. Students involved in this video conference will abide by Roberts Rules of Order and share and discuss their budget decisions in a council like session to present their views.