How to evaluate your first presentation

Example: A full day presentation for a 7th grade at a rural junior high school. We used the following activities:

  1. Simulation Game
  2. An explanation of indigenous peoples
  3. Slide show
  4. Platform game
  5. Interpretive dance.
  6. Rainforest Rap
  7. The Island Video
  8. Skits about environmental problems
The students were divided into three rotation groups in the morning, and before lunch we introduced the concept of the simulation game. After lunch we performed the interpretive dance and ran the simulation game activity.

This presentation was filmed for television and was the first time we tried teaching seventh graders.

Our Evaluation of the Day

We created the following evaluation by asking ourselves questions such as: Which portion of the presentation did the students react to the best? What problems did we encounter? What can we change in order to improve the presentation? etc.

Interpretive dance * * * * * awesome!

Slides * * -work on getffng students to respond to questions, add explanaffon of the layers of the rainforest

Skits * * * worked well

Simulation game * * * * * awesome

We learned that:

Seventh graders need an activity to "warm up" in order to be comfortable around us and each other. We need more games for a seventh grade level, and 45 minutes for one group (period) works well.