Have you ever done a project where you do research,make slideshows, and memorize a whole slideshow? Well I have and it wasn’t easy. My project’s subject is DNA. I picked this because I was interested to learn about DNA. The project wasn’t just a two week project it was like a month project. After all, I realized that my hard work paid off.
First we had to do research on five sub questions. My sub questions were, What is DNA?What do scientists use DNA for?How do scientists use DNA?What are the most recent breakthroughs in how DNA can help in the medical field, and What DNA technologies are being used to improve healthcare? We had to write in our notebooks. I thought this was easier because we could write while looking at the website. My first sub question was easy to research about because there were a lot of sites about the topic. When I was on my second sub question I also thought it was easy because there were lots of sites. My third sub question was harder because I could not find a lot of websites. The rest of my sub questions were really easy because there was so much information.
After the research we had to write an essay this wasn’t that hard because you already had research. When we were writing our essay the hardest parts were the introduction and the conclusion because I didn’t really know what to write. The body paragraphs were long but it was fine. We had to time our essays and at first mine was seven minutes and the time limit was six minutes so I had to shorten it. When I was shortening it I did not know which sentences I should delete but my teacher helped me and soon it was six minutes long and I was done with my essay. You can view my essay here.
After our essay we had to do our script. This was the easiest thing to do except for picking photos for our slideshow. The reason the script was the easiest was because we had to copy and paste our essay into small parts. After we copied and pasted the small parts of our essay we had to find photos. This was pretty hard because there were not a lot of photos because we were in creative commons. Whenever you would find a photo you would write it in a column next to your script and then add it to your slideshow. I knew my whole script. You can view my script here.
I chose Ted talk because I thought it would be easier and fun. At first before we started the project I wanted to do a video because I thought it would be easier and better. But then I realized that I should do ted talk because I didn’t want my voice to be quiet because when I did my immigration video it was quiet and nobody could hear it. So I did Ted talk. I thought this would be better. First we had to make a slideshow then we had to insert photos. This was hard because we had to use creative commons and some photos did not have what I wanted so I had to search for specific things but there were still great photos that matched my slideshow. After inserting photos we had to memorize this was the hardest part in the project because sometimes I messed up but after all the memorizing.
After all my hard work paid off. The project was fun and at the same time hard. After lots of hard work I was happy with my work.