History Fair GuidelinesR8A 2011

You must prepare

• Board/poster

• Oral presentation (2-5 min)

• Prop/3D item

• Answers to questions

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...and this is the second.

Jatinder, our very own superstar!

Board

• Due on Wednesday, February 23rd

• Three sided board (available at Walmart for about $6, Staples for about $12), any colour

Poster criteria

• Include: title, text, images, list of sources

• Clear, catchy title (visible and readable from 10 feet away)

• Chunks of text

• Clarity in writing

• Writing in your own words

• Images should be clearly labelled

• Care/neatness

• Creativity

List of sources

• Make sure to have a list of all your sources of information and include this on your poster

Oral presentation

• Due on Monday, February 28th, 2011

• 2-5 minutes in length

Oral presentation criteria

• 2-5 minutes

• first person perspective (lost voice)

• beginning: introduce character and topic

• middle: interesting information

• end: leave them with something to think about

• thorough

• creative

Prop/3D item

• due on Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011

Prop/3D item criteria

• relevant to topic

• enhances project, speaker refers to it in oral presentation

• creative

• carefully done

Answering questions

• Judges and guests will ask you a wide variety of questions, you need to be prepared to answer them

Judging

• Your project will be marked in class by Miss Pollock, yourself and classmates

• At the History Fair, you will be judged by at least two different judges

• You will be judged on all parts of your project and presentation

• Do you oral presentation and answer questions a number of times

• BE CONFIDENT and proud of your work

• Top projects will represent Fielding at the Regional History Fair

Regional History Fair

• Wednesday, April 20th, 2011

• Canadian War Museum