User:Kelserpokorny/FCCLA Documents

Glogster http://kelserpokorny.edu.glogster.com/national-star-project/

FCCLA Planning Process Identify Concerns •	Ideas- Texting and driving or drunk driving. •	I can relate to texting and driving, because it is within my age group that texting and driving is really a problem. It is also a big epidemic in this country right now.

Set a Goal •	Make a poster on Glogster involving texting and driving and present it to my FCCLA chapter by January 31, 2012

Form a Plan •	Who: My peers and community members •	Where: North Tama High School in Traer, IA •	When: October- January •	Why: Texting and driving is a big problem in the United States and many do not think it will happen to them. •	How: Make a poster on Glogster and present it to my FCCLA Chapter and tell them the dangers of texting and driving.

•	Research facts •	Incorporate all of the facts on the Glogster poster •	Create the design of the poster •	Complete bibliography •	Tape my video by January 31, 2012

Act •	I plan to present my poster to my FCCLA Chapter before January 31, 2012 and post it on my wiki page.

Follow Up •	I think the project will be very informative and will make people think about texting and driving and the dangers of it. •	I want to thank my adviser, Mrs. Halupnick for mentoring and giving me advice on what to change or what does not look right. •	I would also like to thank Mrs. Morrison for bringing her projector when I presented in front of the class. •	Lastly, I would like to thank Mrs. Freitag for helping me through glogster and showing me what the different tools were and how to use them. •	If I did this project again, I would read the directions and rubric more carefully which may have given me a better score on the level I category. •	I had some technical difficulties when doing my project. First of all, my video will not most of the time on my glogster so I put a link under my video just incase it does not work. I also have some problems with my pictures, sometimes only the frame will show up and the picture will be gone.

Project ID Page

Kelsey Pokorny

North Tama High School Chapter

North Tama County Community High School

Traer, Iowa

Central Region

Virtual Poster

Do Not Text and Drive

Summary Page

The purpose of the project is to help prevent texting and driving by showing the statistics and dangers of texting and driving. Texting and driving is a nationwide problem and is 100% preventable. Teens continue to text and drive because they never think it could happen to them. Many people are hurt and even killed because of texting and driving.

There are several ways this issue relates to Family and Consumer Sciences. First of all is communication. There are many ways to communicate with others, including verbal and nonverbal communication. However, texting has quickly become today’s preferred form of communicating, mostly because of the speed of sending messages. The art of communicating face to face with another person and knowing what they mean by their facial and hand gestures is lost. Another way this relates to FCS is through safety and making healthy choices. Texting and driving is the equivalent to drunk driving and neither of those are considered healthy choices by any means. Texting and driving is not only unsafe for the driver and their passengers but also everyone else on the road. People who are killed in texting and driving accidents are not always the ones texting and driving. Sometimes other people on the road are the ones texting and driving and end up hitting another car, which was not doing anything at all. Therefore passengers are also killed when they are not texting and driving. My research consisted of reading over many of the same facts and statistics. I wrote down all the facts I found and picked out the top 25 I felt were most important and astonishing to me. Then I revised the list to the top 15. I ended up with what I think the top 10 texting and driving facts are. The following are some of the facts that I chose. Texting and driving is the number one killer of teens. Texting and driving also kills about 9 people per day in the United States. On average you drive a football field blind with each text you send. I then modified the information I selected, and put it into categories. I then made six text boxes and put the information in them and made the text boxes scroll so you can put more info in it.

Personally, I think texting and driving is very dangerous and is unnecessary. I have tried texting and driving and it was one of the scariest things I have ever done. I learned from that experience how dangerous it really is and how much it really does take your attention off the road. I decided to do this project because in my school, which has only 200 kids in the high school, one person totaled their car from texting and driving. He was not paying attention to the road and ran into a telephone pole. The accident did not cause life-threatening injuries but he did break open his head, and was taken by ambulance to receive medical attention. This wreck could have been prevented if he had not been texting and driving. Because of the importance of this topic I want others to be aware of how dangerous texting and driving can be. I believe people KNOW about texting and driving. But I do not feel many either do not think it will happen to them or they do not care enough to stop. So if my project has impacted at least one person, then my project was a success.

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