Project Details Part 1: Culture and Media
In this part of your project, you will explore the influence of culture and media on attitudes about relationships and appearance. You should have at least two slides of information for this section—one about culture and one about media.

First choose a topic that relates to both culture and media. On one slide, you will include information about how culture affects teenagers’ attitudes about that topic. On a second slide, you will include information about how media affects teenagers’ attitudes about the same topic. You should have at least three points about culture on the first slide and at least three points about media on the second slide.

On the slides, use sources to write information about the messages teenagers get from culture and media about your chosen topic. You may find that different sources provide contradictory information. If this is the case, give your opinion about whether these messages are healthy and realistic. Below are some ideas for topics you could choose to focus on:

appearance
romantic relationships
friendships
male and female attractiveness

Part 2: Personal and Community Health
For this part of your project, you will do research and choose a topic that presents health risks both to you and to your community. On one slide, you will analyze your own personal health risks in regard to that topic. On a second slide, you will analyze your community’s health risks in regard to that same topic.

Begin by choosing a topic that affects your personal health and your community’s health. Possible topics include

sun exposure
water quality
air quality
exercise habits
sleep habits
preventive medical and dental care
stress
crime rates
For the topic you choose, your presentation should include

a description of what good health involves in regard to that topic (both personally and for the community)
a description of three health risks associated with this topic (both personally and for the community)
a list of personal or environmental factors that make change in this area of health difficult (both personally and for the community)
For example, if you chose exercise as a topic, your presentation might include information such as

recommended physical activity guidelines for people your age
short-term and long-term costs of failing to get enough exercise
personal factors and community factors that make changing exercise habits hard, such as limited time to exercise, lack of exercise facilities in the community, and so on.
Note: If you need more space, you can make more than one slide for the personal health risks and more than one slide for the community health risks.

Project Tasks
While each part of your presentation has a different focus, you will need to follow the same basic steps to create each part. You can structure your development as you wish, but following these steps might help you stay on task and create a more polished product.

Step 1: Choose the Specific Topic for Each Part of Your Project
Identify areas of interest to you within each of the broad project topics.
Once you narrow down your topic, do some research to identify the main issues related to that topic. You can refer to the specific information listed in the “Project Details” section.
Write down the sources you have used to gather this information.
Step 2: Planning and Development
Develop a title slide with a relevant graphic.
Identify the information you want to convey in each part of your project.
Develop an outline to help you plan what you want to include on each slide.
Choose the detailed, relevant facts you want to include on your slides.
Start drafting and editing your presentation.
Create your Works Cited slide.
Step 3: Check Your Facts
Make sure your facts are accurate.
Make sure your facts are from recent, reliable sources.