Positives

• Students explore real-world problems through project-based learning.
• Students practice oral presentation skills.
• Students practice giving constructive feedback to their peers.
• This lesson empowers students to continue their projects after the allotted class time has ended.

Additional Prerequisites

• This is lesson 6 of 6 in our 3rd-5th grade Green Transportation unit.
• You can review a code of conduct or guidelines for oral presentations prior to this lesson. This can include an introduction for how to be a prepared speaker and active listener.

Differentiation

• You may scaffold reflection questions with sentence frames.
• You can decide on alternative ways to conduct student presentations based on students' needs.
• Potential action projects for students are listed on slide 14 of the teacher slideshow.

The lesson gives students a chance to reflect on the power of advertisement and ways to engage the public to use the metro as a sustainable green transportation model. The materials used in the lesson have been verified and are accurate. Hence, this lesson is recommended for classroom use.

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Supporting Standards

• English Language Arts
  • Speaking & Listening (K-12)
    • SL.3.4 Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.
    • SL.4.4 Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner, using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace.
    • SL.5.4 Report on a topic or text or present an opinion, sequencing ideas logically and using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace.