PLEASE FIND THE TEMPLATE FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT HERE

You'll be working on a short (6 slides) Google Slides presentation to share with me (due on Thursday).

Note: Themes, images and graphs will go a *long* way to strengthen your presentation

No. You will NOT be presenting these.

 

Slide #0) Your name, date, period, class name, my name

Slide #1) Do a wee bit of research to collect data that shows how airbags have actually increased the safety of car drivers and occupants since they were introduced. For those of you who feel bereaved and bereft at the lack of a title slide, please *do* include your name on the first slide (you may add your period and date if you feel like it)

Slide #2) Do a wee bit more research and explain what the Takata air bag recall was all about

Slide #3) Explain the mechanics of how an airbag is deployed in a vehicle collision

Slide #4) Find out whether your family's current and/or former car was subject to a Takata recall and whether your family did that

Slide #5) Annotated Citations Page (NOTE: there are no word limitations on the citation page)

Let's talk briefly about helpful citation machine type sites that will help format our citations.

• Please cite in MLA format
• Indicate slide # from above
• Cut & Paste links to web pages that you used in researching that slide. Make sure the link is accurate AND live.
• Thoughtfully comment on WHY that source is a STRONG source. This should NOT be your opinion but she be a forceful/scholarly argument. Please be sure to read my instructions on thoughtful writing.
• Please use high school, college appropriate sources:
  • University (.edu) and Government (.gov) website's are usually excellent sources
  • Scientific American, Smithsonian, National Geographic or similar journals are always appropriate
  • Most news organizations (The Seattle Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and other similar newspapers as well as major broadcast/radio are appropriate as long as they are edited/curated-- that means no opinion pieces)
  • Certain organizations can be excellent sources, others are junk... be careful.
  • That means no Wikipedia (although the links at the end of a Wikipedia page can be a good source for more original material, no Science News, Science Digest or similar basic sources (they tend to be shortened/digested versions of other news source articles)
  • Do not use blogs of any sort... ever
  • Do not use "Answer" website's such as Answers.com, Quora, wikianswers or any sort of user generated answer/response content
  • If you're not sure if a source is a strong source, discuss it with your group. If your group can't reach a consensus, ask me to join you!

REQUIREMENTS:

• Anything (except citations) that you cut and past will result in an immediate grade of 0.

  • NOTE: The ONLY time I give zeroes is when a student cheats.
  • Cutting and pasting is cheating.
  • Cutting, pasting and rearranging words is cheating.
  • Cutting, pasting and replacing a few words is cheating

• Quotes are NOT allowed on this project.

• You may have a maximum of 5 bullets per slide

• No more than 10 words per bullet point.

• It should go without saying but you cannot continue one bullet point into the next as a way to get around the 10 word limit

• I want you to THINK about what you're writing and to write clearly and concisely. By forcing you to narrow your word count I'm *HOPING* that you will choose your words thoughtfully and wisely.

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