Activity (Hands-On)Grade 5
Eye Witness Reporting
Students develop briefings for a TV evening news program that summarizes their experiences surviving in the Amazon rainforest. They role play as interviewer and interviewee in class presentations.
Students play the role of interviewer and interviewee to develop briefings for a news program.Copyright 2009 Stan Parker, U.S. Air Force, Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:General_Schwartz_on_60_Minutes.jpg
Engineers must be able to effectively communicate complex problems to other people who are not engineers. This lesson and activity provides an opportunity for students to practice doing that.
Be able to summarize their engineering adventures and communicate them to others.