Animal Information Report Project - Due Monday June 27 (Week 10)

This semester, Year 4/5 students have been learning about how to write an Information
Report as a text type. Your homework for the next two weeks is to research an animal,
dinosaur or ancient animal (megafauna) of your choice and create an informational poster
which contains all of the features of an information report.
Your report should include:
Title clearly showing what your report is about
Sharks: Lords of the Sea
General Statement introducing the topic briefly, identifies and classifies your
animal.
Sharks are one of the worlds most feared animal. They classify into a group called
fish. Despite there vicious appetite for humans they play a pretty important role in
ocean ecology .Lets look more in detail of these enigmatic creatures that are not as
scary as you think.
Description should contain detailed information on the following feature
Description what the animal looks like
Sharks are the worlds most largest
Habitat where it lives (describe environment)
o Diet what it eats
o Interesting facts
Evaluation provides a summary of all the information you have presented.
You must remember the following language features:
Nouns
Adjectives and adverbs
Present tense verbs
You may present your project as an:

Information poster

Booklet

Powerpoint Presentation

OR

Please remember to use your own words as much as possible!

You must also include:
At least one picture of your creature
The titles of the sources that you use to find your information
A completed self-assessment checklist

In addition to this, students will be presenting their project as a 3 minute oral presentation
during Week 10. Palm cards should be used to help students practise presenting their
information.

Assessment Checklist
Feature
I have included a title which tells the reader what my project is about.

I have covered all of the required areas

I have included at least one picture of my animal

I have used capital letters and full stops for all sentences.

I have used connectives to link ideas in and between sentences.

(in addition to, however, so as to, although, besides, furthermore)
Eg. In addition to this, the wombat eats.)
I have used a variety of interesting subject vocabulary, adjectives and present tense
verbs to make my writing interesting for my reader.
I have used commas to separate ideas in a list and to clarify meaning in a sentence.

I have edited my work for capital letters, understanding, punctuation and spelling. I
have read it aloud to make sure all sentences make sense.
I have included a list of the references I have used.

Two Stars
1.
2.

One Wish

Yes

No

1.

Oral Presentation Checklist (for Miss Anderson to complete and for you to see what I
am looking for)
Feature

Developing

Good

Excellent

Voice good volume, pace (not to fast or

Presenter
sometimes
clearly, may be
slower or too
fast.

Presenter
usually spoke
clearly to
ensure
audience
understanding
. Delivery was
usually fluent.
Presenter
looks around
the room at
audience
some of the
time.

Presenter spoke
clearly and at a good
pace to ensure
audience
understanding.
Delivery was fluent
and lots of
expression used.
Presenter looks at
the audience most of
the time, not just at
one person, but at
many people to
engage them.

Presenter uses
palm cards to
refer to
information
often.

Presenter uses palm

cards to refer to
information
occasionally.
Evidence that
students have
rehearsed their
presentation.
No unnecessary
movement. The
presenter is natural,
with good posture
and a confident and
positive demeanor.

slow), confident tone.

Eye contact looking around at the

audience, not looking at the floor or
continuously reading from the screen or
notes.
Palm Cards used.

Little to no eye
contact,
presenter looks
at the floor or
reads from the
screen or palm
cards.
Either no notes
or reading from
a sheet of
paper

Body language strong posture, not

fiddling or rocking.

Presenter may
fiddle, rock or
be facing away
from the
audience.

Mostly
presenting
strong body
language.
Maybe
occasional
rocking,
shuffling or
fiddling.

Introduction of the topic

Topic
introduced
briefly.

Topic
introduced
clearly, and
purpose of
talk was made
clear.

Topic introduced
clearly and in an
interesting way.
Purpose of talk was
made clear. Outline
of points was given.

Information in presentation

Little
knowledge of
topic shown.
Points are
usually
developed with
minimum
detail.
Information is

Good
understanding
of topic
shown.
Information
was relevant
and expressed
in own words.

A very good
understanding of the
topic shown.
Information was
relevant and
presented well in
own words. Points
were well-organised
and developed with

Conclusion of Presentation

Two Stars
1.
2.
One Wish
1.

sometimes
relevant.
The
presentation
may end
suddenly with
no conclusion.

There is a
brief
conclusion,
but it doesnt
summarise
the main
points or offer
an opinion.

lots of relevant
detail.
The conclusion
summarises all main
points and offers an
opinion from the
presenter. Eg. The
world may have been
very different without
the voyages of