Need help with creating a presentation for my Animal Behavior class in which we discuss different species and its behavior and how it helps them in their living habitat. The project is basically creat

1 | P a g e Student independent project presentation Student name : ________ _______________________ Grading ( 100 points total ): • Content: 75 points • Delivery : 20 points • Peer -review : 5 points Content (75 points): • Describe the species with enough information to understand the behaviour? (e.g. species, habitat, food source. size) as it pertains to the behaviour? - /10 • Is the behaviour framed as at least one of the Tinbergen ’s four questions ( Specify proximal or ultimate cause) ? /5 • If the behavio ur well explained in terms of adaptive value, cost and benefit ? /10 • Explain how their chosen behaviour is related to the animal behaviour topics that we have studied in this class ? /5 • Describe why this behaviour in important/relevant interesting to science (from their chosen perspective - examples are ecology, policy, conservation) . /10 • Used specific background information to establish the importance of the behaviour ? /1 5 • Used three peer -reviewed arti cles? /10 • Cred ited / reference d sources appropriat ely ? /5 • Visual / Aural aids /5 o Use d appropriate visual or auditory aids to clarify content and assist the audience in underst anding the important results of the peer -reviewed articles. o Pres ent ed appropriate data (i.e., cite figures and/or tables)? o Were any used table and/or figure (captions) concise, yet self -explanatory? 2 | P a g e Delivery (20 points ) • Good grammar : subject/verb agreement , use of tense , parallel construction , spelling • Paragraph and sentence structure organization (written and oral) • Clarity of message: Organization – does the student give information in logical order • How wel l does the student appear to know the subject? • How well does the presenter engage the audience ? Peer -review ( 5 points) Did the student make constructive comments on seven student presentations ?