S574: Wrapping and Waving 2

To finish my wrapping, I made a power point presentation to share with the students and any interested adults.  I addressed the research questions I had at the beginning, and was a great way for me to organize and polish my thoughts.  For the waving aspect of my project, I want to be able to communicate my ideas beyond myself to students and adults.  I made the presentation simple enough in language and format that I could present it to elementary school kids and adults with little knowledge of farming (like me at the beginning of this process!) would be able to easily understand.  I organized it by talking about the machines, then the crop, then the land.  In the machine section I went through and listed all 8 of the needed machines with pictures to make the presentation more interesting for the people.  Since my research was also in the three sections of equipment, crop and land, it was easy to get everything organized into those groups for the presentation.  The main things I added were an introduction slide and conclusion slide to make everything coherent and flow well.  I'm planning to use this presentation in the future when I work at an elementary school, so I can present it during school if a teacher wants to do a connecting unit or after school as just a fun activity/information night for everyone to come out and enjoy.

I hope that if farmers came to my presentation they would want to share more information with me, so I could learn more and more information--a good inquiry has lots of ends that can spark exploration!  Just as Callison says that inquiry models seem linear but are actually a cycle (51), I think that inquiry seems like a big squiggle.  You can really pick up anywhere and loop around until you find out what you wanted to know, then continue on along a similar strand or jet off along another course.

Anyway, here is my powerpoint on farming!

It feels so good to have my final product!