INSTRUCTIONAL TIPS
1. Before beginning this activity students should understand the terms summarizing versus evaluation. Many students have been summarizing information for a while now (think book reports). However, when asked to evaluate a book, poem, or article many become confused and will summarize the work instead.
The necessary skills and tasks used to create a well-written evaluation are provided in the Power Point document, Writing an Evaluation.
2. You may or may not decide to have students develop Power-Point presentations as suggested in the activity. If you do, the links below provide tips for creating an effective Power Point presentation:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/CH062556181033.aspx
www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/templates/presentations.ppt
3. This activity can be enhanced by providing students an opportunity to research local conservation concerns and outdoor recreational opportunities per Step 2 (see second paragraph in Step 2). However, if time does not allow for this, general discussion in student groups based on what they already know about local conservation and outdoor recreational concerns, provides a quicker way to identify the conservation and outdoor recreation concerns for which they will evaluate potential positions/candidates.
Activity instructions suggest that each group of students complete 10 employee portfolio evaluations, two for each of five different categories. Depending upon the time available and student capabilities, you can easily reduce the number to five employee portfolios, one for each of five categories.
4. If you teach in a location within the Lake Erie watershed, the activity provides an opportunity for you to have students conduct two additional employee portfolios related to Lake Erie, which is the sixth category on the “Conservation and Outdoor Recreation Concerns” page in the Student Tools Section. If you want to keep the total number of portfolios to ten, you may easily require that students select four of the first five categories from which to make choices, but require them to make selections from the Lake Erie category (the sixth category).
OHIO ACADEMIC CONTENT STANDARDS ALIGNED WITH THE ACTIVITY
English Language Arts Standards (Grades 11-12)
Technology Standards (Grades 11-12)
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