Leadership not Sillyship Designing an engaging lesson

What makes an engaging lesson?

What skills do you have? What interests you? What do you know a lot about? Do you have any special talents/skills? How can you engage your audience? Can you make your lesson interactive?

Step 1: Pick a Topic Pick something you are passionate about. If you are enthusiastic about your topic- your audience will be too. World War II The History of... Magic Tricks Topic Ideas How to play The guitar How to use Photoshop Rubik’s Cube How to double dutch Spanish

Step 2: Lesson Planning Plan out your lesson. What materials do you need? Where will you present? How much time do you need? What is your objective? How can you assess your “students”? You will hand this in

Step 3: Decide how you’d like to present your topic Hands on presentation (Think PE class) Slideshow Poster Video Story Board Comic Strip Newspaper articles TedTalk Speech Multimedia

Step 4: Include a One page Write Up Remember: This is a lesson plan. It should be written as procedural writing - explaining how you are going to teach your classmaes. You may want to include a diagram if it would help. Research- no matter what your topic is you should do some research to ensure all your info is accurate.

Step 5: Include a skill testing question Must be information that you have discussed in your presentation (whichever format you have chosen). Must be multiple choice. Must only have one answer.