First, learn about your animal. Read or imagine as much information about the animal as you can .
Try both the Internet and the library; you can try an encyclopedia, individual books on animals,
good websites….
As you're reading about your animal, take notes on key information, such as: where does your
animal live? ‘¿Dónde vive el animal? , how is your animal? What does it look like “¿Cómo es el
animal?” is the animal oviparous or viviparous? “¿ Es el animal ovíparo or vivíparo?” what does it
eat?, “¿ Qué come?” ”¿Es el animal carnívoro o herbívoro?”,
The full presentation has to be in Spanish, use easy sentences, come to class with any questions you
may have about the grammar and I can help you.
Start your presentation with an introductory paragraph that states the main ideas that you will be
talking about. “Por ejemplo: Mi animal favorite es el din osaurio”.
Let’s gain your public attention, you can do it with a joke, a video, photos… (Do you remember
the first dinosaur’s video in my presentation?)
Then describe the animal:
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The Animal's Name: What does the name mean? Sometimes this will tell you something
important or interesting about the animal. For example: Dinosaurio significa lagarto
terrible." You can go to Google translation to see how we pronounce some words or how we
translate them in Spanish :
http://translate.google.com/?hl=en&tab=wT
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Habitat and Range: What type of biome does this animal prefer (does it live in the desert,
swamp, tundra, deep sea, coral reef, tropical rainforest, pond, or other habitat)? Where in the
world does it live? List the continent(s), country/countries, and/or smaller areas that it lives
in.
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Anatomy/Appearance: What does your animal look like? How big is it? What shape is its
body? Describe the teeth (dientes), head (cabeza), neck (cuellos), tail (cola), etc. How many
legs (patas) does it have? Are its legs long or short? How many eyes (ojos) and how many
body parts does it have? (¿Cuántos ojos y partes del cuerpo tiene? ) Is the animal oviparous
or viviparous? Include pictures or other visuals.
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Diet: What does your animal eat and how does it get its food? Is it an herbivore (hebívoro),
carnivore (carnívoro), omnivore (omnívoro). Again if you need help with the Spanish I will
be in my office before and after school. You can also find a great pronounciation of every
word at Google translations.
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Something Special: Is there anything special about this animal? This can often be the best
part of the presentation, taking you off on interesting topics
End the presentation with a closing paragraph that summarizes what you wrote and learned.
Visual Presentation Support:
You could use a board with pictures, figures and your guideline presentation. Just remember that
you would not need to write everything you are going to present.
You can also use a power point presentation and we will use the smart board to present it like I did
in class. Just remember that you would not need to write everything you are going to present. It is
going to be just a guide.
Class example:
You could also build a Diorama with the animal habitat. You can have your notes as a
presentation guideline.
Guides on how to do the diorama in the following website:
http://www.firstpalette.com/Craft_themes/Animals/habitatdiorama/habitatdiorama.html
The Following is a Rubric For Assessing each Part of Your Research Report:
.
Beginning
0-15
Accomplished
16-20
Excellent
21-25
Possible
Points
75
Oral Presentation
Only one or two
Grammar use
Many spelling
errors. Voice is
and Spell is
and grammatical loud and engaging.
perfect. Voice is
errors. Voice is Student fumbles
loud, pleasant,
quiet and
over words in
engaging, and
monotone.
presentation.
smooth. Student
Student reads.
Student looks at
does not read.
audience.
1.
Appearance/Organization
Good organization.
None or
Presenters had
minimum effort
Well organized
knowledge of
made by the
presentation,
information.
student. Poor
typed or very
Evidence of
organization.
well written,
sometime spent
Presenters
accompanying
seemed
preparing. Legible
illustrations,
somewhat lost.
writing,
figures or videos
Little evidence
accompanying
of preparation.
illustrations
.
Over two days
late
.
Timeliness
A day Late
Handed in on
time