Presentations - In the News

Each of you will:

  • Exercise your curiousity!
  • find a news story from the last 6 months with a climate connection. Something you'd like to find out more about.
  • You'll make a ~5 minute presentation at the beginning of class of the story and some context.

More guidelines and suggestions below...

Your presentations...

Ocean damage nearly doubles the cost of climate change - Alyssa

Small Falcons Improve Food Safety - Bree

Past Presentations so...

Presentation guidelines and suggestions

Your presentation should take 3-5 minutes. Count on taking some questions for 1 or 2 minutes.

Typically you will make a few slides:

  • Pictures and diagrams are great!
  • These are short enough that you do not need a "table of contents" slide.
  • Your audience can read! So you should avoid reading what you already have on your slides.
  • So Use text on your slides, then you you don't have to say the things which are written out leaving you to have more time to talk about something else.
  • You should certainly use text to:
    • To display an important message that you want your audience to remember;
    • to give extra details about your topic that you don't need to talk about;
    • Give the sources of your facts / pictures / diagrams;

      Don't put all your sources on a page at the end (like a formal research paper). Instead, put your sources on the slide where you refer to them. But it can be in smaller text at the bottom of your slide.

  1. Sign up on Moodle for a date to present.
  2. Assemble some links / pictures on, for example, a Google Doc or Google Slide. E-mail / Share the link (and viewing privileges) with your instructor ahead of class, who will bring it up on the classroom computer.
  3. Come 5 minutes early to class to make sure everything is ready to go.

Examples

Where to find stories?

They're all over the media these days--and you may already some favorite sources! Some of my favorite climate news sources: (Good writing, high-quality sources and fact checking).

It would be great if we would have a balance between dire problems and examples of how to address the challenges of climate change!

* - means a good source for solutions or hopeful long-term trends below

Add some context

  • Look for another article or two on the same topic as your story to get another perspective.
  • Find a graph or other data visualization to add context. OurWorldInData.org is particularly rich.