Arturo O. and Nadia present on the Tropical Rainforest Biome (click on pic for larger image)
Students create written reports along with the choice of using PREZI, GoogleDocs, or Microsoft Powerpoint as presentation tools. They then present to their classmates. Below are links to some of the PREZI, PowerPoint and GoogleDocs presentations made by Room 205 students.
Here are examples of student "Ancient Cultures" projects that Room 205 5th Graders completed with a 4th Grade "buddy." These were completed in April and May of 2013.
Here are examples of students' "Biomes of the World" projects that were completed in February, 2013.
Elias and Owen present on the Tundra Biome.(click on pic for larger image)
PowerPoint
Arctic Tundra Biome Dominic and Doran's PowerPoint
Temperate Grassland Claire, Cassandra and Tigist's PowerPoint
Boreal Forest Biome Ximena and Jennifer's Prezi
Chaparral Biome Max, Maurice and Andrew's GoogleDocs
Chaparral Biome Presentation2 Keona and Isabel's GoogleDocs
Tropical Savanna Biome Issac and Paul's GoogleDocs
Tropical Rainforest Biome Nadia, Michael and Arturo O's PowerPoint
Desert Biome Tarek and Elizabeth's Prezi
Student presentations posted here using PowerPoint have them converted to PDF documents, as PowerPoint doesn't easily translate to the Web. To give a better representation
Cassandra, Tigist and Claire present on the Temperate Grassland Biome.(click on pic for larger image)
of these presentations, I've included a sample of Claire, Casandra and Tigist's Temperate Grassland presentation as a Quicktime movie(the small size is due to upload constraints) below:
Here are examples of students' Great American Women and U.S. Presidents reports completed in Mid-November.