Presentation Ideas
It is important within the Inquiry process that students connect their understandings to their own world and, ideally, share their understandings to a wider community outside classroom walls.
Sharing within the school
- Share understandings at parent nights
- Become involved in action with other classes
- Share through involvement in noon hour student activities
- Connect curriculum to School-wide social action – such as recycling and environmental laws
Sharing Within the Community
Students can share ideas about law and their lives through
- Letters to local government officials
- Presentations and delegations to councils
- Town or community action items (e.g. posters highlighting community laws governing the environment, and so on).
- Letters to the editor
- Community drama
- Collections or contributions to local museums
- Contributions to local libraries
- Contributions to other schools
Sharing Within the World
The use of the Internet and Web 2.0 technologies create a rich environment in which to share understandings and to make a difference in the world. Students can share through
- Webpages
- Social Action on-line projects
- Youtube
- Blogs
- On-line activity groups
Formats to Address Learning Styles
It is important to understand that student strengths vary, so students benefit from being offered a variety of presentation formats. Students may wish to present ideas, solutions to problems, and ideas for social action through
Writing
- mock trials
- revised history from perspectives
- new proposed laws
- classroom charters
- short plays
- screenplays
- legal briefs
- song lyrics
- journals
- diaries
- memoirs
- travelogue
- interviews
- newspaper or newsletter
- letters (or email) to experts
- an original advertisement
- "what if..." thought experiment
Inventing, Design, Drawing
- posters
- cartoons
- timelines or family trees for communities
- models of legal services and so on
- charts
- maps
- paintings (with explanations similar to museum exhibits)
- board game
- concept maps
- multimedia presentations
- flow charts
- book jackets
- CD covers
- project cubes
- recycle bags
- storyboards from differing perspectives
- simulations
Orally Presenting
- blogs
- plays depicting a legal situation
- role-play lecture (such as a well-known person from history form perspectives)
- a dance based on legal or historical event
- debate
- intercom message
- reader's theatre
- video clip
- audio clip
Kinesthetic
- collection for museum
- diorama
- books to place in community or school library
- mini-centres
- puzzles
