Question: Wellness Project-TOPIC: Pick the Topic/Issue.
In this presentation, you will explain the issue, describe how it pertains to wellness, and provide a plan of action for addressing the issue. This plan includes recommendations for improvements as well as strategies and a plan for implementing the recommendations. Develop your plan as a multimedia presentation. You will be required to provide written speaker notes that correspond to your presentation (PowerPoint).
Be sure to support your answers with appropriate evidence. Include relevant and appropriate research.
Specifically, you must address the critical elements listed below. Note that these are not in any particular order; they can be constructed in your presentation in any configuration.
Part 1 -Worksheet - The topic chosen is Pick the Topic. In the presentation that will be created for the final project, explain the issue, describe how it pertains to wellness, and provide a plan of action for addressing this issue. This plan includes recommendations for improvements as well as strategies and a plan for implementing the recommendations.
Use the prompts below to decide on the specific topic addressed in the final project - Pick the Topic/Issue.
1. Briefly describe your discipline of study or chosen profession, at this point in time, and the impact that health and wellness issues have on it.
2. Describe an issue topic that is related to health and wellness and is also related to your professional and/or personal interests.
3. Given that you will need to conduct serious research on the issue, is it sufficiently narrow to discuss in a presentation that is about 10minutesin length? If not, what sub-issue within the larger one can you address?
Final Comments
Part 2 - Outline should be submitted as a two- to three-page document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one- inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style.
Devise a plan of action for addressing the health and wellness issue -Pick the Topic/Issue, and you will create a presentation to communicate your plan.
Submit a 2-3 page outline of the final project presentation. Think of it as a script with notes to help add context to the points you will be making. It does not need to use complete sentences or paragraphs, but it should contain enough detail to allow for some feedback.
Note: This outline, with revisions, can serve as speaker notes for the final project submission.
The outline should be based on the critical elements listed below. Note that these are not in any particular order; they can be constructed in your presentation in any configuration.
I. Introduction
For this part of the assessment, examine the role of wellness in society and how it influences aspects of culture and the individual.
To help guide the analysis, explore factors that support or challenge wellness, wellness through the lens of different disciplines, and so on.
A. Analyze how social practices have shaped our idea of wellness and how that idea of wellness has shaped social practices.
B. Utilizing interdisciplinary approaches, explain howtopic/issuechosen has or has not shaped our idea of wellness.
C. Analyze how the importance (or lack thereof) of wellness and health in society has been a force for social change. In other words, has an emphasis or lack of emphasis on wellness in society sparked change in the everyday behavior of individuals or societies?
D. Analyze how wellness has influenced the behaviors and operations of individuals in your discipline of study or area of interest. In other words, look at the influence of wellness through the lens of your discipline.
E. Utilizing interdisciplinary approaches, explain the positive and negative aspects associated with topic/issuechosen.
Using relevant research or diverse perspectives, assess how emerging technologies have the potential to improve personal and societal wellness.
II. Issue: For this part of the assessment, introduce the issue and how it relates to wellness in the topic/issue chosen.
A. Using appropriate research strategies, describe a social or global issue that is related to wellness.
1. What is the origin of the issue?
2. What is the issue about?
B. Using appropriate research strategies, describe the target population of the issue.
1. Who is impacted by the issue?
2. What is important to know about them?
C. Using appropriate research strategies, explain how the chosen issue relates to topic/issuechosen?
1. In other words, how can you connect the social or global issue you have chosen with thetopic/issuechosen?
2. How does it inform your understanding of the issue?
D. Using relevant research or diverse perspectives, assess how the chosen issue is impacting the target population.
E. Utilizing interdisciplinary approaches, predict how the chosen issue will or will not change in the future. Be sure to justify your prediction.
III. Plan: For this part of the assessment, offer recommendations and a plan to improve the issue, as well as strategies for implementing the plan.
A. Make recommendations for how the current issue could be addressed so that it no longer adversely affects the target population.
1. What strategies or steps could be taken to help the individuals who are adversely affected by the chosen issue?
2. How could these recommendations be implemented so that a new population is not adversely affected?
B. Explain the strategies that could be utilized to address the chosen issue.
C. Imagine you are in charge of addressing your chosen issue. Utilizing interdisciplinary approaches, explain how you would implement your plan.
D. Explain the benefits of your plan and justify why your plan would be preferable. Be sure to support your justification with relevant research or individual perspectives.
Part 3 - Create the visual facet of your presentation. The length of this presentation (including all audio elements) should be 8-12 minutes
Minimize the number of words on each slide and maximize the use of visual elements, including photos, illustrations, and graphs.
Presentation: For this part of the assessment, address these specific elements in the construction of the presentation.Construct the presentation in a way that ensures it is logically organized in order to convey your message to your audience.
Complete the following tasks:
• Prepare your slide presentation using MS PowerPoint. Include slide notes for each slide.
o View the slides and the outline side by side to see how they work together.
o Provide supporting evidence in the presentation to articulate the importance of the chosen topic/issue.
Part 4 - Create MS Word document with the narration of the presentation.