Production Tool (Scrapblog)

I chose the following Indiana Academic Standard: 7.6.4 Discuss how personal health goals can vary with changing abilities or responsibilities. This is a health and wellness standard. This standard fits with the production tool I used because it allows students to creatively express their ideas and the information they find in an interesting way.

I chose Scrapblog as my production tool. I chose this tool because a lot of students enjoy presenting information in other ways than just reading it off to the class. With this production tool, students can use various templates to create their scrapblog. They can find pictures and information online and use it in their scrapblog along with the creative features that scrapblog offers to present their information in a unique way.

For this project, I would have my students pick their favorite athlete from the Winter Olympics to research. Then, they would look up the daily eating habits and activities of that athlete in order to determine what the athletes to do achieve their goals (going for Gold!). Next, the students would find pictures of the athlete competing and in his or her everyday life to put in their scrapblog. They would then combine the pictures with the information they found about the athlete in their scrapblog and present their findings to the class.

This production tool helps address this Indiana Academic Standard because students can compare and contrast the goals and habits of professional Olympic athletes with their own in order to see how health goals can vary with different responsibilities and abilities. Also, students can compare their favorite athlete's eating habits and daily activities with other students' favorite athletes in order to address the standard.

This is the link to an example scrapblog that I made for Apolo Ohno: http://www.scrapblog.com/892b6eff4e/066F9CED-D31B

Here is a screenshot of the cover of the scrapblog: