The Presentation Coloring Page

About this page

Curious Bunny, who started this whole journey with a single question, now stands at a podium with a microphone. Speaking in front of others takes a special kind of bravery, and this page treats it with warmth rather than pressure. Presenting is also listening, because audiences ask questions, and those questions are a friendly, everyday cousin of peer review. Children see that a voice can be an instrument of science, and that the same curiosity that asks questions quietly can also answer them out loud, for everyone to hear.

The research skill

Curious Bunny stands at a wooden podium with a microphone, a Science Talk screen of charts behind, and a row of audience silhouettes in front. A research talk pairs speaking with visuals: the charts hold the details while the speaker explains what they mean. The core skill is knowing your one main message and saying it clearly to people who have not seen your work. In Chapter 6, this is presenting out loud. Your child practices it through show-and-tell now, and later through class presentations and talks.

Try it at home

Set up a tiny science talk at home, with a stack of books as the podium and a wooden spoon as the microphone.

1. Help your child pick one thing they found out this week.
2. Hold up one drawing, like the screen behind the bunny.
3. Your child explains it in three sentences: what they wondered, what they did, and what they found.
4. The audience asks one question, and your child answers it as best they can.

Talk about it while you color

• What do you think Curious Bunny says first into the microphone?
• How do you get brave when lots of people are watching you?
• If you had a microphone right now, what would you tell everyone about?