Midterm Project

Freshman Seminar – Fall 2018

Midterm Project

Presentation & Reflection

Tuesday, October 16

Midterm Team Presentation

Please prepare a 20-minute team presentation in which you introduce and share the practice which your team has been developing. Assume your audience is our campus community (i.e. college students and/or people who work on our campus), and that your audience has no prior knowledge of the practice you are about to introduce and share. 

Make sure that each person on your team participates in your Team Presentation in a substantial way. If someone is absent and doesn’t make appropriate arrangements (e.g. recording his or her portion of the presentation and making sure someone on the team is prepared to show the recording) the overall grade for the Team Presentation will be lowered. Each member of the team will receive the same grade for their Team Presentation.

Your Team Presentation must include, at a minimum, the components listed below. 

Introduction (2-3 minutes) – What is your practice? What do you want people to know about it? What is its history? Very briefly, in just one sentence, in what way does your practice incorporate an emphasis on the natural world?

Benefits (3-4 minutes) – What are the documented benefits of the practice? Summarize the research that demonstrates benefits of this practice to both humans and the natural world.

Method (2-4 minutes) – Describe the practice as your team has been doing it. Do a demonstration if that would be helpful. You can have one person talk and another demonstrate if that is helpful.

Guided Practice (9-13 minutes) – Lead your audience through a mini session of your practice. 

Thursday, October 18

Midterm Reflection

Midterm questions will be posted to the class website by the beginning of class on Thursday, October 18. Working individually, please write thoughtful responses to those questions. Spend no less than 75 minutes responding to the questions. Submit your responses by email to pandrews@ndnu.eduby 6pm Thursday.