1. Presentation and Organization

2. Steps to Organizing a Presentation
Identify the important ideas about your topic, and base your presentation on those ideas.
Topic: Dolphins
Important Ideas
what dolphins eat
where dolphins live
how dolphins communicate

3. Steps to Organizing a Presentation
Create an introduction that grabs the audience’s attention and states your main idea.
What makes dolphins so special? Let’s find out by exploring where they live, how they live, and how they communicate.

4. Steps to Organizing a Presentation
Find and include details, examples, data, or visuals (graphs, illustrations, tables, etc.) to support and explain the main idea.

5. Steps to Organizing a Presentation
Create a conclusion that sums up the details.
It is easy to see why dolphins are special. These sea creatures amaze people with their playfulness, intelligence, and unique way of communicating.

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Severe Weather
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7. Presentation Plan What is my topic?
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What main ideas should I include?
What details will support my main ideas?
In what order should I present the details?
What visuals will support the main ideas?

8. How Should it be Organized?
Example
Topic: Althea Gibson
Main Ideas: background, struggles to obtain her dream, accomplishments, changes
Details: childhood, poverty, tennis competitions, how she changed tennis
Order: background, struggles, accomplishment, changes
Visuals: photographs

9. International Space Station
Your Turn
Topics
Volcanoes
Sharks
War in Iraq
9/11
Sports Figure
Solar Power
Electric Cars
International Space Station

10. Presentation Plan What is my topic?
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What main ideas should I include?
What details will support my main ideas?
In what order should I present the details?
What visuals will support the main ideas?

11. How can I use this information outside of this class?
Connect
How can I use this information outside of this class?
State history
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Art
U.S. history
World history
Literature
Drama

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