STUDENT PRESENTATIONS

To gain valuable teaching and communications experience (and also to help educate your follow classmates), each student will prepare and deliver a mini-lecture on a plant physiology/ecology topic.

These are scheduled for the final five or so class periods of the semester (see schedule).
Nov 16, 21, 28, 30, Dec 5

Each presenter will have 15 minutes. Aim for presentations to last about 12 minutes, with about 3 minutes then for questions and discussion.

We ask that you predominantly use the traditional lecture style for your presentation: probably PowerPoint slides, possibly the whiteboard. Other visual aids are optional. Due to the time constraints, we probably do not have time for much hands-on activities. But if you would like to incorporate one of the so-called active learner techniques in your presentation, okay it first with one of the instructors.

At the beginning of the course, students will choose or be assigned one of the following topics.

For the classroom presentation, students will grade each other using an evaluation form. Instructors will also grade each presentation using this form.

Sometime prior to the "live" classroom delivery, we ask that students arrange to have their presentation previewed by their team partner or another member of the class, also using the evaluation form. Collect the form from your classmate and turn it in to an instructor prior to giving your live classroom delivery.

Of the 100 point total for this assignment, the preview is worth 10 points, the live class delivery 90 points.

These topics are important to the course. But due to time constraints, they are only briefly mentioned or not discussed at all by the instructors. We therefore elect to have each student choose one topic and provide a mini-lecture.