5 tips to a JAWsome Classroom Presentation

How to Plan a Successful Presentation in your community

1.  Look for any and all opportunities, education is needed everywhere
2.  Contact classroom/teacher and ASK what is relevant for them
   1. It’s important to make it either applicable to what they are learning or to make sure the teacher find it useful for them (most love to bring in and talk about these things but some want to relate it to their current material).
   2. Can send emails to science teachers and elementary schools and let them know you are interested in presenting whenever it is relevant and most useful for them
3. Asses your age group!
   1. Some elementary students may not understand the evolutionary adaptions,phylogeny, and scientific terms that your professor uses with you. You mighthave to simplify more concepts than you are aware of!
   2. Then again, you want it to be interesting and you want to teach NEWinformation. You can ask the teacher about current concepts they study and are aware of and what they think (communication with the teacher is key).
4.  MAKE IT FUN
   1. Get creative with teaching styles! Bring activities, coloring pages, havequizzes and prizes (shark gummies, Swedish fish, stickers… the more fun youhave, the more fun they have)
   2. Talk about what YOU are passionate about! Is it the ecology, plastic pollution,marine organisms and their adaptions or anatomy? These kids will pick up apiece of your passion!
5. INITIATE ACTION
   1. The most important part in my opinion! Think about the guest speakers you have had. Which ones made the best impression and got you so excited that you ran home to tell your parents? Which ones inspired you to do further research and to DO something?
   2. Initiating action in our communities is our PURPOSE! It is your time to shine and this is how you make a difference!
   3. Will you suggest plastic free alternatives, better recycling and cleaning habits, passing on your message of the Ocean’s importance, and a GREAT suggestion is asking for their information for future events that you may be planning!

These presentations are the ultimate opportunity to build a team of Ocean Lovers in your community! You are education, inspiring, and creating a MOVEMENT.

Further suggestions of how you have MOCA-ed up your presentations and classroom visits? Comment below!