Science Oral Exposition

Hello students!

I would like to remind you some points about your final Science Exposition next week. 

*Don't forget tomorrow is your deadline to send your complete Power Point Presentation by email to miss.gabycasas@gmail.com

*Remember you CAN'T READ during your exposition. So practice hard at home, but more important than memorize a speech, clearly understand what you are going to tell the group about your research, this way you will be able to expose it in a relax, confident, and interesting way. 

*Read the evaluation rubric carefully and consider all the aspects that are going to be evaluated; your voice volume, eye contact with your audience, everything is important.

*Expositions will be held next Monday 28, Tuesday 29, and Wednesday 30.

 

  

Oral Exposition Rubric

The rubric below shows you the aspects that will be considered to evaluate your performance on your Science Oral Exposition.

Please read the rubric carefully.

TRAIT	4	3	2	1
NONVERBAL SKILLS
EYE CONTACT	Holds attention of entire audience with the use of direct eye contact, seldom looking at notes.	Consistent use of direct eye contact with audience, but still returns to notes.	Displayed minimal eye contact with audience, while reading mostly from the notes.	No eye contact with audience, as entire re read from notes.
BODY LANGUAGE	Movements seem fluid and help the audience visualize.	Made movements or gestures that enhances articulation.	Very little movement or descriptive gestures.	No movement or descriptive gestures.
POISE	Student displays relaxed, self-confident nature about self, with no mistakes.	Makes minor mistakes, but quickly recovers from them; displays little or no tension.	Displays mild tension; has trouble recovering from mistakes.	Tension and nervousness is obvious; has trouble recovering from mistakes.
VERBAL  SKILLS
ENTHUSIASM	Demonstrates a strong, positive feeling about topic during entire presentation.	Occasionally shows positive feelings about topic.	Shows some negativity toward topic presented.	Shows absolutely no interest in the topic presented.
ELOCUTION	Student uses a clear voice and correct, precise pronunciation of terms so that all audience members can hear presentation.	Student’s voice is clear.  Student pronounces most words correctly.  Most audience members can hear presentation.	Student’s voice is low. Student incorrectly pronounces terms.  Audience members have difficulty hearing presentation.	Student mumbles, incorrectly pronounces terms, and speaks too quietly for a majority of students to hear.
CONTENT
SUBJECT KNOWLEDGE	Student demonstrates full knowledge by answering all class questions with explanations and elaboration.	Student is at ease with expected answers to all questions, without elaboration.	Student is uncomfortable with information and is able to answer only rudimentary questions.	Student does not have grasp of information; student cannot answer questions about subject
ORGANIZATION	Student presents information in logical, interesting sequence which audience can follow.	Student presents information in logical sequence which audience can follow.	Audience has difficulty following presentation because student jumps around.	Audience cannot understand presentation because there is no sequence of information.
MECHANICS	Presentation has no misspellings or grammatical errors.	Presentation has no more than two misspellings and/or grammatical errors.	Presentation has three misspellings and/or grammatical errors.	Student’s presentation has four or more spelling and/or grammatical errors.

Science Oral Exposition

Hello Parents and Students!
As you know this school year is about to come to an end.
This bimester, Science is going to be evaluated differently.
*Students are required to make a research and prepare an oral exposition about a specific topic. 
*Students already know which topic they have been assigned.
*Students MUST send an email to this addres: miss.gabycasas@gmail.com no later than Wednesday, May 16th, indicating at least two sources of information they consulted to make the research.  (Internet is full of useful content to prepare your exposition, you may also consult books or magazines related to your topic).
*Students HAVE TO prepare an atractive, organized and colorful Power Point Presentation to show to their classmates their research. Slides or diapositives of your PPP must not be full of text. Students are not allowed to read during their expositions. Try to used just a picture and include one or two sentences about the picture for each slide. Your research must be explained on your own words.
*No later than Wednesday May, 23rd students MUST send their complete Power Point Presentation to this address: miss.gabycasas@gmail.com 
*Science Oral Expositions will be held on May 28th, May 29th, and May 30th.
-The chart below shows you the aspects you need to consider at the moment to make your reasearch and presentation:

Human Body 

Topic	Student must cover these aspects in the exposition.
The Digestive System	·         Mention the organs that made up the digestive system (show a picture of the digestive system and point where the organs are) ·         Give a short explanation of the main organs ·         Clearly explain how is food digested (where digestion starts and where it ends.) ·         Mention how long does it take for food to go through the digestive system. ·         How to take care of the digestive system.
The Circulatory System	·         Mention the organs that made up the circulatory system (show a picture of the circulatory system and point where the organs are.) ·         Give a short explanation of the main organs. ·         Clearly explain how the circulatory system works. ·         Mention some interesting facts about blood. ·         How to take care of the circulatory system.
The Nervous System	·         Mention the organs that made up the nervous system (show a picture of the nervous system and point where the organs are.) ·         Give a short explanation of the main organs ·         Clearly explain how the nervous system works. ·         Mention some interesting facts about the brain.
The Respiratory System	·         Mention the organs that made up the respiratory system (show a picture of the respiratory system and point where the organs are.) ·         Give a short explanation of the main organs. ·         Clearly explain how the respiratory system works. ·         Mention some interesting facts about the heart. ·         How to take care of the respiratory system. ·         Mention what causes hiccups. ·         Mention why you sneeze.
The Muscular System	·         Mention the organs that made up the muscular system (show a picture of the muscular system and point where the organs are.) ·         Give a short explanation of the main organs. ·         Clearly explain how the muscular system works. ·         Explain what a joint is. ·         Mention some interesting facts about muscles. ·         How to take care of the muscular system.

Water and Space

Topic	Student must cover these aspects in the exposition.
The Solar System	·         What’s the solar system and what’s in it? ·         Besides planets, what other things are there in the space? ·         What’s the Milky Way? ·         What is the difference between planet and dwarf planet? ·         Interesting facts about the planets in the solar system.
WATER CYCLE and WEATHER	·         Describe the water cycle. ·         How does the rain form? ·         Where does water go after raining? ·         Other forms of precipitation besides rain. ·         How do hurricanes form?

Electromagnet

The following video shows you how to build a simple electromagnet. 
Please watch it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emlzh9XXWgQ

Molecules MOVE all the time

Watch this video to see how molecules are in motion all the time.

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/videos/chemistry/molecularmovement.html

Read about atoms on the link below, then answer the following questions.

http://www.historyforkids.org/scienceforkids/chemistry/atoms/

1. An atom is a combination of electrons, neutrons, and ______________.

2. Which is the simplest atom, it has only one proton and one electron.? _______________

3. When many atoms of different kinds get together, they make clumps or gropus of atoms called _____________.

What is matter?

Please watch the video then answer the questions below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYFAj50c7xM

1. Mention the four states of matter.

2. What is needed to make matter going for one state to another?

3. What is plasma?

Moon Phases

Watch the video, then answer the following questions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXseTWTZlks

1. How often the moon phases repeat?

2. Mention the four main phases of the moon.

3. How much time does it take to the mooon to change from one phase to another?

4. How do we call to the process in which the moon seems to be getting smaller?

5. When is the best time to observe the moon, and why?