I had a discussion with the children about the direction of their presentations over the coming weeks. Some children have already begun to piece the presentations together based on their research. This is great if they have made a start compiling their presentation but there is no need to worry if they haven't begun to put the presentation together.
I recommended to the children that they try and get the presentations complete over the next two weeks so that they can spend the final week practicing their presentation techniques before they begin to share with each other on the 22nd June.
We reviewed the original blog that I posted before half term and emphasised the importance of including the important facts and figures about the rivers.
The children had already begun to discover that although all of the rivers are major world rivers, some of the children's rivers are actual tributaries of another river. So it is important to describe the rivers journey and the most interesting factors from its source to the river mouth.
Other important factors we would like to know about are habitats and in particular, are there any interesting creatures that are individual to the river?
Effect on human life: How do humans use the river, eg for recreation is the river a source of drinking water? Have humans made changes to the river by building rivers, dams or other structures?
Are there any other unique facts or historical facts about the river that are interesting?
We discussed that during research they are likely to discover a host of facts but it is important that they only share facts that they find interesting and they think the other children will be interested to hear.
The children have already shared one fact each about their rivers as an insight to the project and I am looking forward to hearing the final presentations.
Mr B.
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