News article poster session
Alisa Hylton
, Central Piedmont Community College
Summary
This assignment has students reading current news items and communicating the content to the rest of the class. The assignment meets a college-wide goal of teaching communication and a class goal of the connection between geology and everyday life.
Context
Audience:
Introductory physical geology course
Skills and concepts that students must have mastered:
Reading and an introduction to the subject matter.
How the activity is situated in the course:
Stand alone assignment that can work with topics such as climate change, resources, energy, earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, or groundwater.
Goals
Content/concepts goals for this activity:
Gleaning accurate information from a media source.
Higher order thinking skills goals for this activity:
Evaluating an information source.
Other skills goals for this activity:
Communicating the information to the class using oral and graphical means.
Description of the activity/assignment
Students will have read appropriate section of text. In lab, each group of 3-4 students is given a short news article. They read and discuss the article within the group and then prepare a short presentation to the rest of the class.
Determining whether students have met the goals
The group is evaluated on the accuracy of information gleaned from article (number of "facts") and the quality of their presentation.
More information about assessment tools and techniques.Download teaching materials and tips
Other Materials
Supporting references/URLs
http://www.sciencedaily.com is a great source for articles.
