Exercise 1 Goal: This activity is designed to help students take information and practice presenting it in the
most effective form to communicate these findings to an audience. Instructions: Your task is to go to the U.S. Census Bureau website
<www.census.gov/dmd/www/2khome.htm> and select
any category that has been reported on in the last year and has at least 5 different categories of information. After you have
made your selection, you need to create a visual aid with this information that could be used for a presentation.
You should be prepared to show your visual aid as well as explain why this visual aid is the best way to present this information. Exercise 2 Goal: This activity is designed to help students take specific information and think
about how they can present it to an audience during a presentation that will make sense. Instructions: Your task is to go the Consumer Reports website
<www.consumerreports.org/main/home.jsp> and
look at the reviews on passenger cars and sports utility vehicles in the last year. Then create a visual aid that
compares passenger cars and SUVs with one another based on reported weaknesses. Choose a visual aid that best represents this comparison. |