Week one: Lesson Five

Lesson: Infomercial presentation

Objective: Students will demonstrate their understanding of biomes through an infomercial
presentation. Students will learn to collaborate with other students while making a presentation.
Common Core Standards/Content Standards:
Content standards: History-Social Science
4.1 Students demonstrate an understanding of the physical and human geographic features that
define places and regions in California
Common Core Standards: Science
Life Science
3. Living organisms depend on one another and on their environment for survival. As a basis
for understanding this concept:
3.a. Students know ecosystems can be characterized by their living and nonliving components.
3.b. Students know that in any particular environment, some kinds of plants and animals survive
well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.
Common Core Standards: Language Arts
Reading Standards for Informational Text : Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
7. Interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively (e.g., in charts, graphs, diagrams, time
lines, animations, or interactive elements on Web pages) and explain how the information contributes to
an understanding of the text in which it appears.
Technology Standards
1. Creativity and innovation
Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and
processes using technology.
a. apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes
b. create original works as a means of personal or group expression
2. Communication and collaboration


Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a
distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.
a. interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital
environments and media
b. communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media
and formats
d. contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems
5. Digital citizenship
Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and
ethical behavior.
a. advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology
b. exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and
productivity
6. Technology operations and concepts
Students demonstrate a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems, and operations.
a. understand and use technology systems
b. select and use applications effectively and productively
Materials:
iPad
Showme app
Reflector app
Evernote app
SmartBoard
Overhead projector
Lesson Preparation: Please be sure to turn on the SmartBoard and Overhead Projector. Please
also be sure that all iPads are turned on and display the Showme app (iPads can be found in the
crate in the back of the classroom). Place an iPad on each students desk (according to the
number on the back and the students number found on their name tag).



Anticipatory Set: For the next 20 minutes, you and your group will get together, finish up your
infomercial and prepare for your presentations. If you are not finished, I suggest you do your best
and finish up with any information that you currently have.

Guided Instruction: Once all students have finished working on their infomercial, students
must email me the URL link to my work/school district email for grading. You will need to draw
numbers and pick groups at random to come up and share their infomercial to the whole class.
Students will use the Reflector app to display their iPad and their infomercial on to the
SmartBoard for all to see. The whole group, must come up, introduce themselves, and share their
infomercial. Once complete, students may answer three questions or comments regarding their
infomercial.

Independent Activity: Once a group has presented, students need to write down three important
points that were shared during the infomercial. Notes should be written in their Evernote app on
their iPad, so that they may share their notes with me at the end of the day. Students should
include: what they liked about the presentation, if they would visit the biome based off of this
presentation and if they would change anything and why? These notes will be submitted to me at
the end of all the presentations via email. The notes will go toward students overall grade for this
whole project, to determine participation.

Rubric: 90 Second Infomercial Presentation Total Points: 25
Category Excellent 5 Satisfactory 4 Average 3 Unsatisfactory
1-2
Speaks Clearly-
10 points
Speaks clearly
(100-95%)
the time, and
mispronounces
no words.
Student
addressed all the
necessary
information.
Speaks clearly
(100-95%)
the time, but
mispronounces
one word.
Student did not
present all of the
information.
Speaks clearly
(94-85%)
of the time.
Mispronounces
no more two-four
words and does
not address all
the information.
Student
mumbles or
cannot be
understood
and does not
address any of
the important
information.
Stays on topic-
10 points
Video stays on
topic 100% of
the time.
Video stays on
top 95-90% of
the time.
Video stays on
topic 85-80% of
the time. Video
drifted away at
times to another
irrelevant topic.
It was hard to tell
what the topic
was about.
Participation Student
completed notes
after each
presentation and
wrote three notes
effectively after
Student
completed notes
for all
presentations, but
did not include
three notes per
Student
completed notes
for only 2-3
presentations.
Student only
completed notes
for 1-2
presentations.


each
presentation.
presentation.

Student Work/Outcome: I will be assessing students learning through: infomercial completion,
presentation, as well as notes from each presentation. Students will be graded on the above
mentioned items and will receive a possible score of 25 points for successful completion of the
infomercial. Student work will be the infomercial itself, and notes from each individual student.
At the end of this lesson, students should know and understand how to work with a group of
students, collaborate, create an infomercial, as well as learn how to come up with their own
slogan. This assignment is a combination of group work and individual work (note taking).