Question for people who are experianced nurses/docs?!
Question: Question for people who are experianced nurses/docs!?
My mom is a nurse and doing a presentation on bicycle safety!. (Wearing a helmet, etc!.!.!.) We are already projecting pictures and my mom is doing a plastic-egg-filled-with-jelly drop as an example of someone not wearing their helmet and falling off their bike!. She's also giving out coloring books to the younger ones!. She's teaching two groups: 7th/8th graders and around 3rd/4th graders!. Do you have any ideas on how to grab their attention and to make it more interesting!? Thanks a bunch!Www@Answer-Health@Com
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Make it funny!.!.!.include funny stuff in between the important messages!. Nothing bores people more than a well-intended lecturer presenting morbid facts and examples!.!.!.like the "look at these lungs" presentations to discourage smoking!. If it bores adults, it will put kids to sleep! I taught girl scouts/brownies about horse care years ago!. I invented a cartoon horse, drew cartoons on large poster boards, and included the important information in a story line!. Those kids are now adults and when I run into them on occasion, every one of them talks about the adventures of "Dobbin" and how much they learned!. Most importantly, they actually followed the precautions and still remembered them years later!. My presentations were targeting girls around 10 years old, give or take (can't remember exactly)!. If I were your mom, I'd draw a face on the egg, name it, make a body and bike for it, and create a story line that is 50% funny and 50% facts!. For 3rd and 4th graders I'd include their issues; for 7th and 8th graders I'd create a different story line!.!.!.more teen issues!. Maybe give the egg a cool hairdo!.!.!.even a fan blowing it "in the wind" before the fall!. Develop an introduction that prepares them to be bored!.!.!.then shock them with funny and keep rolling!. I'm also a nurse!.!.!.and a very funny but effective college instructor!.!.!.humor always worked for me, and my students actually enjoyed learning!Www@Answer-Health@Com
Use real kids to begin with!. Have them do a skit about riding their bike without helmets or making fun of someone because they do have a helmet on and the ones without get hurt and then go into the egg drop!. This will show the kids that accidents really can happen to anyone, especially if you use students from the audience to act it out!. This will really help to get on their level!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
The best way to get your audiences attention at first is to wake their brains up!. You could mention bicycle safety and ask them if they had any stories to tell about unsafe cycling, give feedback, thank them and after a while get into the presentation!. Well done to your Mum!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Seems a little drastic!. I am no doctor, but my bet is that my skull is a tad stronger than a plastic egg!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Get Marilyn Manson to show up!.!.!.!.!.or hit them!.Www@Answer-Health@Com