EDUCATIONAL TOOL: Your project should culminate in some kind of EDUCATIONAL TOOL that clearly demonstrates what you have learned through your research. The tool should be informative in nature. The choices are endless. Take advantage of skills you already have: are you a dancer? Poet? Filmmaker? Do you like words or numbers? Both?
Your educational tool should stand alone. It should be comprehensive enough that anyone could look at, listen to, read or experience it and learn what you want to teach them.
Use your critical thinking skills to determine proper scope here: you don’t have time to write a symphony, but you may have time to write a song, so to speak.
Your educational tool should demonstrate a solid amount of work. If it looks like it took 20 minutes, it will not pass .
Examples of acceptable educational tools:
Short films or videos Think about the different genres:
Music video
Public service announcement
Commercial
Documentary
Scene from an original tv script
Art pieces
Paintings
Drawings
Sculpture
Photography
Performance art/installation
Music and dance
Original song (composition)
Original dance (choreography)
Literature
Original poetry collection
Original short story collection
Original play script
Journalism
Zine
Newspaper
Magazine
Internet
Website/blog
Podcast
There are other possibilities, but if you have an idea that is not on this page you need to discuss it with me.
Notice: scrapbooks are not on this list. I have found that scrapbooks rarely reach the depth that is needed for this project. You can do better than glue and paper--unless you're doing a full scale art installation! Also, Power Point presentations are not acceptable as educational tools. I would recommend one as a guide in your final presentation, but not as a product.
Your project should culminate in some kind of EDUCATIONAL TOOL that clearly demonstrates what you have learned through your research. The tool should be informative in nature. The choices are endless. Take advantage of skills you already have: are you a dancer? Poet? Filmmaker? Do you like words or numbers? Both?
Your educational tool should stand alone. It should be comprehensive enough that anyone could look at, listen to, read or experience it and learn what you want to teach them.
Use your critical thinking skills to determine proper scope here: you don’t have time to write a symphony, but you may have time to write a song, so to speak.
Your educational tool should demonstrate a solid amount of work. If it looks like it took 20 minutes, it will not pass .
Examples of acceptable educational tools:
Short films or videos Think about the different genres:
Art pieces
- Paintings
- Drawings
- Sculpture
- Photography
- Performance art/installation
Music and dance- Original song (composition)
- Original dance (choreography)
Literature- Original poetry collection
- Original short story collection
- Original play script
Journalism- Zine
- Newspaper
- Magazine
InternetThere are other possibilities, but if you have an idea that is not on this page you need to discuss it with me.
Notice: scrapbooks are not on this list. I have found that scrapbooks rarely reach the depth that is needed for this project. You can do better than glue and paper--unless you're doing a full scale art installation! Also, Power Point presentations are not acceptable as educational tools. I would recommend one as a guide in your final presentation, but not as a product.