A few months ago we started a project called U.S. Regions. The class would be paired into groups and would be assigned a region from the U.S to research. My group got the Mid Atlantic region. I got paired with Chloe k, Rhyse, and Kate.  We researched the states: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington d.c which is technically not considered a state.

My group decided to have each person research two states in the mid Atlantic region. Since we had 4 people and 7 states everyone got two states and two people had to share one. Chloe k did research on Maryland and New Jersey, Rhyse did research on Virginia and West Virginia, Kate did research on Washington d.c, I did research on Pennsylvania and Kate and I both did research on Delaware.

After researching, It was time to start building our presentation. My group all agreed we should do a slideshow. Making our slideshow was really fun because Ms.Edwards let us do whatever we wanted for our presentation so my group had a lot of fun with it. At first we didn’t really know what to do on our slideshow but before long we started getting some ideas. Our first version of our slideshow looked nothing like our final one because when we made the first version we suddenly had a completely new idea to make our slideshow into so we completely did it over. Our slideshow ended up looking really good and we all really liked it. We put really special touches on the slideshow which made it unique and helped it function and make it interesting. We did stuff like making stuff move when clicked on and linking the slides to other slides to easily go back and forth between slides.

Chloe K had a really good idea of making a Mid Atlantic jeopardy game at the end of our presentation to make it interesting and fun, we also thought that if people knew that there was going to be a jeopardy game at the end they would pay more attention to the presentation so they could win. I offered to make the jeopardy game and I did. Before making the jeopardy, we all finished our part of the presentation so then we could base the questions off of what we were teaching the class about our states. After we all did our slides in the slideshow about each of our states we saw what we were all teaching the class about our states and saw what categories they had in common so we could make the categories of the jeopardy game. Then I made the questions using the categories and the state slides and we were done. 

We also had the idea of making a state themed wordle game for each state that everyone could play individually at the end of the day for independent menu.

Presenting the slideshow was really fun and we worked really hard on this project so we were really happy to see that the class enjoyed our presentation.