Colonial Biography and Presentation Project
Benjamin Franklin George Washington Samuel Adams John Adams Patrick Henry Thomas Paine
1. Use at least three different sources to gather information about the following for your EACH person:
- The place and date of their birth and how old he was when he died
- Accomplishments/Achievements
- The impact the person had on the history of our country
- Additional data, statistics, pictures, interesting facts, etc.
- Be sure to copy and paste the URL that you used for the information into the bibliography slide. Use Kids Bib to create the citation, and copy and paste this into the bibliography slide. You may need more than one bibliography slide. Do this each time you finish a slide!]
- Use bullets in your presentation
2. Create a presentation in Google Drive.
*Title slide with author name and teacher code
*One slide for each person. You may use bullets on the slides.
* Bibliography
*Transitions for each slide
3. One person from each group submits the presentation to Google Classroom.
4. This is a group project. Each group should have 3-4 people. One presentation should be shared out to all group members and work is to be completed collaboratively. It is suggested that each group member contributes two slides. Group members must be in the same class.
Individual Performance
• is prepared and ready to work
• consistently uses technology tools as agreed upon by the team to communicate and manage project tasks
• does tasks without having to be reminded
• completes tasks on time
• uses feedback from others to improve work
• helps the team solve problems and manage conflicts
• makes discussions effective by clearly expressing ideas, asking probing questions, making sure everyone is heard, responding thoughtfully to new information and perspectives
• gives useful feedback (specific, feasible, supportive) to others so they can improve their work
• offers to help others do their work if needed
• is polite and kind to teammates
• acknowledges and respects other perspectives; disagrees diplomatically
Team Performance
• makes detailed agreements about how the team will work together, including the use of technology tools
• follows rules for discussions, decision-making, and solving problems
• honestly and accurately discusses how well agreements are being followed
• takes appropriate action when norms are not being followed; attempts to resolve issues without asking the teacher for help
• creates a detailed task list that divides project work reasonably among the team
• sets a schedule and tracks progress toward goals and deadlines
• assigns roles if and as needed, based on team members’ strengths
• uses time and runs meetings efficiently; keeps materials, drafts, notes organized
• recognizes and uses special talents of each team member
• develops ideas and creates products with involvement of all team members; tasks done separately are brought to the team for critique and revision
• is prepared and ready to work
• consistently uses technology tools as agreed upon by the team to communicate and manage project tasks
• does tasks without having to be reminded
• completes tasks on time
• uses feedback from others to improve work
• helps the team solve problems and manage conflicts
• makes discussions effective by clearly expressing ideas, asking probing questions, making sure everyone is heard, responding thoughtfully to new information and perspectives
• gives useful feedback (specific, feasible, supportive) to others so they can improve their work
• offers to help others do their work if needed
• is polite and kind to teammates
• acknowledges and respects other perspectives; disagrees diplomatically
Team Performance
• makes detailed agreements about how the team will work together, including the use of technology tools
• follows rules for discussions, decision-making, and solving problems
• honestly and accurately discusses how well agreements are being followed
• takes appropriate action when norms are not being followed; attempts to resolve issues without asking the teacher for help
• creates a detailed task list that divides project work reasonably among the team
• sets a schedule and tracks progress toward goals and deadlines
• assigns roles if and as needed, based on team members’ strengths
• uses time and runs meetings efficiently; keeps materials, drafts, notes organized
• recognizes and uses special talents of each team member
• develops ideas and creates products with involvement of all team members; tasks done separately are brought to the team for critique and revision