🎤 Capstone Presentation

📋 How to Use This Page

• This capstone is paper-first and off-tech. Your printed packet is where the daily work lives. Work in your packet every day.
• This Canvas page is a backup mirror — you only need it when you want to look something back up, find an online resource, or submit work digitally.
• Text-to-Speech tip: In Chrome, right-click any paragraph and choose Read aloud to have the page read to you.

📦 Open Your Packet

Use your printed packet. This week complete the Week 4 Capstone Presentation Plan (if not already done) and write your Final Reflection after you present.

📅 What Happens This Week

• Meeting 1 — Rehearsal with a partner audience, then the first round of presentations. Practice your full presentation and note one thing to improve. Every scholar is an audience member.
• Meeting 2 — The remaining presentations so everyone presents, then read the peer feedback you received, write your Final Reflection individually in the packet, and join the EOY Capstone Celebration.

There is no Plot Twist warm-up this week. The warm-up ran in Weeks 1 through 3. Week 4 opens with rehearsal and setup.

🎙️ Presentation Formats

Every scholar must have an individual speaking role, even in a partner or group presentation.

🤝 Audience Norms

• Listen completely before you respond.
• Lead with the idea, not the person: "The claim I heard is ___."
• Ask a question that helps the presenter add evidence, not defend themselves.
• Use the sentence frame: "The idea I heard is ___; the evidence that supports it is ___."

✅ Rehearsal Checklist

• I can state my claim in one sentence without reading from notes.
• I can point to at least one artifact as evidence.
• I can name the scientist or engineer habit my evidence shows.
• I can ask the audience one clear question.
• I can respond to one peer question respectfully.

💬 Peer Feedback

As an audience member, give one feedback note to each presenter using this frame:

1. Claim I heard: "You claimed you are becoming a scientist or engineer who ___."
2. Evidence I noticed: "The strongest evidence you showed was ___."
3. One concrete strength: "The strongest move you made was ___ (specific, not just 'good job')."
4. Bonus — curiosity question: "One thing I want to know more about is ___."

Write one note per presenter on a Capstone Peer Feedback half-sheet from your teacher (or the back of your packet), then return it to that presenter at the start of Meeting 2.

📝 Final Reflection

After your presentation, answer all five questions in the packet's Final Reflection section in complete sentences. This is the last artifact of your "My Year as a Scientist and Engineer" project.

1. What did you learn about yourself as a scientist or engineer?
2. What evidence made you proud?
3. What was hard about telling your story?
4. What did a peer notice or ask that helped you?
5. What kind of science work do you want to do next?

When your reflection is complete, submit your full packet — all four weeks — to your teacher.

🎉 EOY Capstone Celebration

We finish the year by celebrating how far you've come as a scientist or engineer. After reflections, the class holds a capstone gallery: walk the room, see everyone's poster, slides, or essay, and give peer shout-outs.

Give at least one shout-out using this stem: "One scientist or engineer move I saw you make this year is ______."

📊 Week 4 Checkpoint

💻 Looking Back & Online Help

For the times you are on a device, here are three ways this Canvas page can support you: