You and your group will research a health-related issue and create a presentation to educate your peers.
Requirements:
Work in an assigned group
Research using a minimum of 4 sources. The sources must be from the pre-approved list of websites below, or books from the library. You may need to go to the public library to find appropriate materials
Develop 4 research questions related to your topic before you begin research. Show me your research questions before proceeding. These will guide your research and become the key ideas in your presentation
Each member of the group must contribute to the research and present during the final presentation
Take careful notes on the note sheets provided or on lined paper. Be sure to list where the notes come from (which book or website). You will need to hand in your notes with a copy of your presentation. I will compare the two to be sure that your presentation contains most of your notes and that there isn’t anything copied from a website.
Your presentation should be detailed, thoughtful, and at least 5 minutes long
You may present using a slideshow, a video, or podcast format
Approved Research Sources
You may only use sources from the following list. If you find another source, you must get approval before using it.
Government and Health Organizations:
Any website from the federal or provincial government related to health, nutrition, or mental health
One of the most important decisions you will make in your life, someday, is your choice of career. Jobs of the future may require more education and training than ever before and some jobs of the future don’t even exist yet! The better prepared you are, the greater your chances for success.
To find a career that is a good fit for you, it’s a good idea to think carefully about your values, interests, skills, and personality. It’s also valuable to consider the skills that might be required or useful for the careers you are thinking about. For this project you will focus on one possible career path.
This is an individual project.
Use your list of your likes, interests, and skills to help with your thinking (you have already done this for your skills project).
You need to do some deep thinking about yourself and the following questions and answer them in as much detail as you can:
Describe what might be your ideal job/career.
What are the characteristics of this job/career that make it appealing to you and right for your values/interests/skills?
What is it that you will be doing most days?
Are you working with people, things, animals?
Where will you live (for example, city, a different country, can you afford to live there?)
What will your work environment be like?
What is the average salary?
How does this career contribute to your community or to the world.
What are the education or training requirements?
What are the skills you need?
What are the job responsibilities?
Please remember that research can take place in different ways including internet, books, and talking to people.
Create a tri-fold brochure (which has six sides), on regular 8.5″ x 11″ paper to demonstrate your learning and share the information above in an organized way. I recommend using headings. You can do this by hand, or in Word using a Word template. If using Word, please work in your VSB account so you can work at school. Think carefully about which information will go on each panel of your brochure.
These websites might be somewhat helpful but will probably not answer all of your questions.
Work in a reasonably sized group of about 3-5 people.
Must have a theme and genre from the list below
Must be at least 5-7 pages, including dialogue, setting description, and stage directions.
Must contain at least 3 separate scenes.
Must incorporate the elements of drama (stage directions, at least 1 monologue, narrator, scenes, etc.)
Must have at least 3-5 characters, one character/puppet for each person in the group.
Each person will make their own hand puppet using sewing (no glue) after the story is mostly written
If there is a narrator to the story, the narrator must also be a puppet.
Each member of the group must have a fairly equal number of lines.
Must be appropriate for school (no violence, no weapons, no racism, etc.) PUPPETS DON’T FIGHT!
Themes to choose from are:
Coming-of-age
Loyalty
Betrayal
Life and Death
Justice
Family
Good vs. evil
Identity
Human vs Nature/environment
Loneliness
Genres to choose from are:
Romance
Mystery
Adventure
Comedy
Tragedy
Drama
Horror
Fiction
Fantasy
Fairy Tale
Non-fiction
We will make the puppets together in class using hand sewing similar to how the puppet in the video below is made. We’ll not use glue for this project.
