For example, there is a kind of sponge material that looks like a rock (find this in a gag shop). Give a short talk about recognizing different rocks…have a variety of rocks as demo props. After the talk, ask people to volunteer to examine a rock and try to identify it….then throw the sponge rock into the audience (of course, you play it up about how some rocks are light…really let someone up front pick up a light one…pumice is a good example…and another person in the front pick up a heavy one…like granite…and then who wants to try this one…pretend it’s really heavy…and then throw it to someone in the back row.

Have two buckets up front and talk about something to do with water. One bucket is really filled with water. the other bucket is filled with confetti and a cup of water. the demo starts with the speaker holding up the full bucket of water and talking about it (properties of water, its weight, volume, whatever) and how the demo will show the differences and similarities between the amounts of water in the two buckets. Part way through the demo, one of the team reaches in and picks up the cup of water and drinks most of it. The speaker turns puts down the water bucket and looks upset at the drinker….demands the cup from the drinker…drinker splashes what little water is in the cup at the speaker. A very upset speaker turns, grabs the confetti bucket, chases the drinker who runs into the audience. the speaker gets close to the drinker and uses a sweeping motion to throw the water out of the bucket to douse the drinker (who is surrounded by the audience) but instead of water, its only confetti!

Here’s an idea that gets them interactive for a Q & A portion after the main presentation.

Get small paper plates and pas them out to the class. Get them to write questions about your presentation (or other relevant topic) and toss them frisbie-fashion to your group members at the front of the class. Your team reads the question…see who in the audience will volunteer to answer it…and if no one volunteers, a team member answers. One answer could lead to additional participation if others have something to add.

adds some interactive fun to the classroom.

hope this helps….best wishes on your presentation

RE:
i have a college project, i need class participation ideas???
Okay, so our team is doing our presentation on "behavioral disorders" and we have to stand in front of the class for 45 min and make it fun but informative, i need fun ways to include the class, i have a snowflake idea, about having them cut out snowflakes/discuss how each is different…

Split them into three groups one has to be a public, private, and home-schooled group. Tell them to explain how they would go about learning about the water cycle. Remember they can only use resources that that particular sector would use. For example I am assuming home-schoolers would take their kids somewhere to learn about it private schools may go to a water-shed at a college and public school would learn from a book and draw pictures of???

the groups could evaluate a story based on the behavioral disorders you teach them about.

you could play a jeopardy review game at the end.

you could ask them to participate in a debate.

put them in groups and give them chart paper to make a K-W-L chart. folde the paper to make 3 vertical columns and label each K W L in that order from left to right. in the first column have them write what they already know (K) and then under W have them write what they WANT to know. when you are all done, they can make a list of what they learned under L.

Prior to implementing your idea I have included a website regarding behavioral disorders.