Once you have collected all your research, and made sure you understand what you are going to be doing for your presentation, you should remember one important thing.

start your slideshow without making a plan first! If you don't have a plan, you will not have a logical shape to your presentation.

Use Inspiration if you want to do it on computer, or just paper, if you would rather do it that way.

FIRST

You must have an introduction to your topic. A good way to start is with an interesting fact, or with what you knew about the topic before you started.

Then start giving the information you need, and make sure it is in a logical order.

Save the most interesting and exciting parts to the end.

Make sure you say things that your audience will be interested to learn, not boring things they could read in a book.

TO FINISH

Make sure you have a conclusion, which should link back to your introduction. Give a personal opinion. Make people think. And DON'T say "thank you for listening to my slideshow" - finish with something like "I hope you will think carefully next time you tip old paint down a drain - could you be poisoning a frog?"

BIBLIOGRAPHY

You must collect up URLs and titles of books as you go. If you leave it to the end, you won't remember where you got information from. You must acknowledge where you got all your pictures too, whether they are scanned or from the intranet or internet. If from internet / intranet, you should give the full URL, as in this example bibliography.