To finish up the unit of Inventions and Inventors I decided to create a poster for presenting a familiar invention known as Coca Cola. My poster describes the invention and inventor, as well as the unit question in a clear and neat manner. I asked both Reeza and Mike on their opinions of my poster and here are the results:
1) Is the poster neat?
Yes.
Yes.
2) Is it colorful and attractive?
Yes.
Yes, but it mainly includes only red.
3) Does my poster include the inventor and invention?
Yes.
Yes.
4) Does my poster answer the unit question? (How do inventors come up with their ideas and create inventions?)
It does answer it but not directly and clearly.
Yes.
5) Does it describe how Dr. John Pemberton created Coca Cola?
Yes.
Yes.
6) Are pictures included?
Yes.
There are a few pictures included.
7) It doesn’t have to much information to make it boring, but has the right amount to keep everybody’s attention?
It has the right amount of information.
Yes, it’s a good amount of information.
8) Does my poster have a title?
Yes.
Yes.
9) Does my poster include important questions and their answers that the audience would like to know?
Some of them are important. There could be important questions.
Yes the poster does include important questions and answers that others would like to know.
10) Is the poster detailed and relevant to the project?
Yes.
Yes.
Overall, I am pleased with people’s reactions of my product because I did spend some time working on it. I also enjoyed researching the topic Coca Cola because I found out things that I never knew about. The process of creating my poster and the improvements are talked about below.
Criteria A: Investigate
At the beginning of this unit we got a few worksheets about our invention, in this case I got Coca Cola. This gave us a lot of the main information to do with our invention. After completing this packet we were required to come up with a list of questions about the invention and the inventor; this is where the investigating comes in. We had to do research in order to find the answers to our well thought out questions. An example of one of my questions was, “Is the same logo used as when Coca Cola was first invented?”. After finding the answers to my questions we had to start thinking about what we wanted our final project to be (an essay, video, audio, artwork, PowerPoint, presentation, etc.). Since we weren’t designing anything, this led us straight to Criteria C, which is planning.
Criteria C: Plan
This criterion expects us to create a plan for working on our final product. It should be described in detail and logical steps. I made mine in a graph with the columns consisting of the dates we could work on it, the steps I will take, the time, the materials I need, resources I would need, and the changes I have made in my plan. My plan can be viewed earlier in my blog. I think my plan is very detailed and well-thought out. As you can see, I made a few changes and I went through my product faster than I expected, but in the end it did take me a while and I added a few things that weren’t on my plan.
Criteria D: Create
After constructing my plan, I started to think about the layout and how I wanted my poster to look. I knew I wanted to include the Coca Cola logo and a picture of the can. First, I wrote out the information in pencil and then went over it in marker. Then I found a picture of the Coca Cola logo and go to work on trying to make my drawing look like the actual logo. I also drew a Coca Cola can and glued on a picture of Dr. John Pemberton, the inventor. My finishing touch was the background, which is a zig-zagged cut out as a border. I spent a lot of time on this poster, especially the background, and am pleased with how it turned out.
Suggested Improvements:
We all know that many things can be improved on, so on my poster I think I could have kept my white poster in better condition and not so crinkled. I also think I could have included a few more facts about Coca Cola, but overall at it presented the important information and was straight to the point.
My presentation of the poster was done very poorly, in my opinion, because I get very nervous and tend to speed through to get it over with. This is the main thing I have to improve on and you may not believe it, but I have improved over the years of presenting in front of people.
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