I think the purpose of this project was to advance my learning with research and presenting, while also helping us learn more about important history. I think this because I had to do a lot of learning and researching while being independent. I also think it practiced my presentation skills because we had to present our final projects. I learned a lot about history while researching, (And the Constitution projects in general) and history is important. I loved this project a lot, and it was very interesting and fun while challenging in some parts.
The first part of our project was choosing our topic. My Constitution research topic is Important events that led up to women gaining the right to vote. I chose this topic because I wanted to learn more about Women’s Suffrage, and important Women’s Suffrage Events. Next, we had to answer research topic questions and fill out a planner. After we researched and took notes about our project. I think this part was hard because we had to choose and take notes about specific topics and choose them on only 3 websites. It was fun but challenging. I learned a lot. One interesting thing I learned was that there is a women’s suffrage flag, and the women suffrage represents the following colors: Purple, white, and yellow.
After we took notes and research we had to take our notes and make them into a script. This was also very challenging because the timing of the script overall had to be less than 2:30 and more than 2:00. Each script slide/paragraph had to be more than 6 seconds, and less than 15. It was also very hard to put my notes into a script.
Then we made a slideshow for our project and notes. We had to add photos onto each slide that connected to the topic of each script slide. This was challenging because each photo had to match, even though there weren’t specific photos for each topic. We also had very direct instructions for the slides. For example, only up to six words on the slide. Another example was it had to be a good quality and centered photo, while it had to look neat. I had the most problems with my slides in all of this project! At first, I got the photos and organization finished very quickly, but then I soon realized that a lot of my notes were out of order and wrong, so I had to fix them up. I also realized I had a few problems with my introduction slide, and my third slide, so I fixed it up. I ended up moving down a photo and deleting a whole slide. It was also pretty hard to get the timing right.
The last thing we had to do was Screencastify our slides/presentation. Screencastify is a recording app. It was really hard to get the recordings right, and I had to re-do them many times because I had messed up reading the script in the recording, or just stuttered. Other problems I had were switching the slides while recording, and finding a quiet spot to record. In general, I loved the project and it was very interesting while challenging in some parts. This project helped me learn so much about the Constitution and Women’s Suffrage. Overall I loved it, and I had a great experience.
You can listen to my presentation here:
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