Guide to Powerful Presentations
A quick FFA lesson plan that teaches students strategies for creating engaging, memorable presentations using the video “Make a Presentation Like Steve Jobs” and an accompanying “Stand Out Presentations” note-taking worksheet. Students identify presentation tips and plan how to apply them to their own class presentations.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Identify strategies to make a presentation engaging and memorable.
- Plan a presentation that utilizes the strategies they have identified.
- Time required
- 15 minutes
- Materials
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- A copy of the "Stand Out Presentations" worksheet for each student.
- Internet access to play the video in real time or embed it in a PowerPoint ahead of time.
- Resources
- FFA.org
- This Quick Lesson Plan Would Work Well As
- 1. Part of a public speaking unit. 2. An introduction before assigning a class project/presentation.
Downloads & Links
Aligned Standards
AFNR Performance Element
- CS.01Analyze how issues, trends, technologies and public policies impact systems in the agriculture, food & natural resources career cluster.
Common Core – Math Practices
- CCSS.MP3Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
Common Core – Speaking and Listening
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.1.CPropel conversations by posing and responding to questions that relate the current discussion to broader themes or larger ideas; actively incorporate others into the discussion; and clarify, verify, or challenge ideas and conclusions.
NASDCTEc
- AGC02.01Use oral and written communication skills in creating, expressing and interpreting information and ideas including technical terminology to communicate technical information within AFNR.