Poster Session Information For PEC 2017 Poster Session

Poster Session Information For PEC 2017

Poster Session Overview: Event where a teacher or researcher shows visual display of strategies, best practices, and or research based ideas to an audience on a poster board. The poster should quickly and efficiently grab the attention and focus of the audience giving you the opening to involve your audience in a discussion and interactive collaboration or hands-on activities. The poster should be able to tell a story, initiate discussion, command attention, and reflect research ideas or best practices with illustrations, text, graphics, and or images that emphasizes and provides clarity for a given topic.

Posters Criteria: O For PEC 2017: Goal of showcasing 30 Poster Board Sessions O Topics must be research based and or best practices approach O Must include interactive hands-on activities O 1 poster (big chart paper 32” X 27”) per presenter or Trifold project board O Contains title, text, images, & graphs. Font should be large enough to read O O O O O at a distance. Make illustrations simple and bold. Use colors to add emphasis and clarity. Text should be concise, short, and straightforward. Illustrations, images, and graphs should be ordered or sequenced. Poster presenters have the option of bringing co presenters. Presenter must prepare comprehensive and concise summary of their topic. This will be synthesized into a one page handout or brochure. Include citations APA style. Do not read the poster to audience. 1 page handout or brochure Drawings/illustrations can be scanned and inserted or pasted as pictures. Duration of poster session is 1 hr. 30 mins. A total of 10 sessions per day, with 5 poster sessions showcase in Session 3 and 5 posters showcased in Session 4. These are the first two sessions after lunch. Presenters will only present once. Then they are free to attend other sessions.

Poster Board Demo SAMPLES

Vocabulary Instruction

Bingo Directions: Write a different vocabulary in each box. The teacher will read the definitions. Shade or color the boxes with words that matched the definitions. The first one to get 5 shading or colored boxes in any direction wins. POP Biome Weather POP POP Landform Valley POP POP Land Features Map POP POP Mountain World POP Seasons Capital POP

Memory Game Directions: Teacher shuffles and turn over vocabulary and its meaning on a card. Students will take turn over 2 cards at a time. If card shows vocabulary and matching definition then students keep the cards. Whoever has the most matching cards wins. Cardinal Map Globe Longitude Latitude Geography Economy Government Landforms Legend the governing body of a nation, state, or community the wording on a map or diagram explaining the symbols used round representation of the Earth lines on a map that splits the earth into East and West hemisphere four main points of the compass represents an area of land or sea showing physical features, cities, roads, etc. lines on a map that splits the earth into North and South hemisphere natural feature the study of the wealth and of the earth's physical resources of a surface features of the country or earth and its region atmosphere

Pop Vocabulary Directions: Teacher writes vocabulary words on cards and put them in a bag. Teacher also write ‘pop’ on few of the cards. Students takes turn pulling out cards out of the bag and defining, giving synonym, or antonym, examples for the words on the card. If correct, student keeps the card. If not correct, students put back all their cards in the bag. Economy History Pop!

Vocabulary Jeopardy Directions: For review, students can pick from each category and teacher gives them a vocabulary to define, use in a sentence, give an example, or discuss history of word and how it came to be. Students who get it right gets the dollar amount point. Teacher adds up points and award winners. DEFINE USE IN A SENTENCE GIVE EXAMPLE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND $100 $200 $300

Combating NCD: Health Fair Projects

Conversion from g/mg to teaspoon • 1 gram =. 2 teaspoon • 1 mg =. 002 teaspoon Examples: • Sugar = 50 g X. 2 = 10 tsp • Sodium = 26 mg X. 002 =. 05 tsp

What does research say about sugar consumption?

What does research say about daily salt intake?

Combating NCD: Health Fair Projects

Using Board Games and Card Games to Support Math Computational Skills