LessonGrade 5
The Evening News
Students present briefings for a TV evening news programCopyright Pixabay http://pixabay.com/en/newspaper-article-journal-headlines-154444/
Student summarize their experiences in the Amazon rainforest by developing and presenting briefings for a TV evening news program. They prepare questions and answers and practice being interviewers and interviewees. They reflect upon what they have learned through the Lost in the Amazon unit.
Engineers must be able to effectively communicate complex problems to other people, often people who are not engineers. This lesson and activity provides an opportunity for student teams to do that.
After this lesson, students should be able to:
- Summarize their experiences in the Amazon rainforest by developing and presenting briefings for a TV evening news program.
- Prepare questions and answers and practice being interviewers and interviewees.