Sample Assignment: Final Presentation
Part 2 of the final project: Presentation
As your final part of your deep dive project, you will create a presentation.
Your presentation:
- Answers your focusing question, for example “What do college students need to know about procrastination and happiness?”
- Should be between 5 and 8 minutes long
- Have both audio and video of you speaking with your slide deck/presentation on screen
Example outline for about procrastination and happiness
| Slide | Goal | Slide contents | What to talk about |
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| 1: Intro | Introduce yourself | Your name, presentation title, date
Example: Happiness, Procrastination, and college Bridget Lepore Date |
Who you are and what this presentation and deep dive is about
Example: Hi, I’m Bridget and I’ll be talking to you today about procrastination and happiness. As a first-semester student, I’m familiar with this behavior, and I bet you are too! |
| 2 | Explain the topic and why you chose the presentation | Topic of the presentation
Why you chose this topic Why you are interested in it Example: Happiness, Procrastination, and college Why I chose this topic Why is it relevant to all of us |
Explain the topic with words like
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| 3 | Make sure the audience knows your deep dive question and what you’ll cover in your presentation | Your question plus what you will cover in the presentation
Example: What Lehman students should know about procrastination and happiness Topics:
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State your question: “The question I looked to answer in this deep dive was”
Explain what you’ll cover: “In this presentation, I will discuss…” Example: “What do Lehman students need to know about happiness and procrastination? In this presentation, I will talk about what we know about procrastination and college students, and how procrastination affects happiness specifically related to college students.” |
| 4 | Give background on your topic (for example, on procrastination and on how it affects college students) | Share background on procrastination, what it is, why it happens, how common it is, and other details related to college | |
| 5 | Give background on your second topic (for example, on happiness and about happiness related to college students) | Share background on happiness, what it is, how we build it, what it isn’t, how college affects happiness, happiness levels in college students vs everyone else | |
| 6 | Give information on how procrastination and happiness interact | Share background on how procrastination and happiness are related/interact | |
| 7 | Give information on how procrastination affects happiness | Talk about | |
| 8 | Discuss why students need to know about procrastination and happiness are important | ||
| 9 | Share detail on point 1 (or sub-question 1) related to your question |
Example: Procrastination is very common Procrastination causes lower grades Procrastination becomes a habit College students are most likely to procrastinate on assignments they are uncomfortable or not confident in
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Example:
The first important thing you need to know about procrastination is that it is extremely common. Nearly all college students, X%, procrastinate on at least one high-stakes assignment (like a test or paper). And since procrastination leads to you handing in poor work, this can have serious consequences. According to one study by NAME, nearly …. Procrastination can become a habit for students. X% of students in a study by NAME procrastinated constantly… Students are most likely to procrastinate on |
| 10 | Share detail on point 2 (or sub-question 2) related to your question |
Example:
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| 11 | Share detail on point 3 (or sub-question 3) related to your question |
Example:
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| 12 | Conclude your presentation by reminding the audience of your deep dive question and your answers | Put your question on the slide
List the takeaways with bullet points (what you want the audience to remember) Add in why it is important Add in actions you want students to take |
Recap and wrap up your presentation by reminding your audience about your deep dive question and the answer to it. Use language like:
So to wrap up this presentation, my deep dive question was “What do college students at Lehman College need to know about happiness and procrastination?” The answer was not simple; however, the big takeaways I’d like you to remember are… It is important that you know this because… After watching this presentation, I’d like you to… |
| 13 | Document the resources you used in your deep dive
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Copy and paste the APA citations from your source list (all of them) | No discussion needed |
You can have more slides but need at least these to ensure you have the minimum required content
You can use any software you like to create the presentation but I recommend using screenpal.com as it is free and quick to use.
You’ll turn in the presentation on Brightspace. If the file is too big, you’ll need to up upload it and then share the link to the presentation on BrightSpace. You can save the presentation to your Onedrive with sharing set that anyone with the link can access it.You can share on google drive, or YouTube etc as well.
Reminder, though you might use AI to locate articles or brainstorm, you cannot use anything generated by AI in your deep dive project.