Small Group Project Ideas
Overview
Here are a few ideas for small group projects
Ideas for Small Group Projects:
1. Travel Speech
a. Students make a list of all the places they have traveled and all the places they want to travel
b. Students decide on a location (broad enough for 4 or 5 people to research)
i. Examples: West Coast, Northeast, France, Italy
c. Students begin researching about the area and adding content into their google doc (I usually give them a few days)
d. Students evaluate the information they found (and make sure all are adding content) and divide up into manageable chunks
e. Groups decide who is in charge of which chunk
f. Next, they can begin to structure their speech according to your guidelines (time limit, number of oral citations, etc.)
2. Course Topic Area Speech
a. Students decide on a topic area of interest from the text (verbal/nonverbal, listening, etc.)
b. Students take sections of the text to read and summarize
c. Students enter the summaries into the google doc
d. Students can then structure the information into a speech format according to your guidelines (time limit, outside sources needed?, etc.)
3. Problem-Solving Speech
a. Students brainstorm different school or community problems
b. Students decide on a problem they believe needs fixing – and can be fixed!
c. Students research what solutions have been offered before, and why these solutions have NOT worked
d. Students brainstorm solutions that may work and decide on one
e. Students structure this information into a problem-solution speech according to your guidelines (time limit, number of oral citations, etc.)