Native American Colonization
Summary
The aim of my Research Project was to discover ‘How Significant an Impact Colonisation has had on Modern Native American Culture’. I chose this topic as I am very interested in native cultures and I think it is important to know how these cultures have been impacted, due to colonisation and what can be done to help these cultures now. I used a variety of research processes including, libraries, the Internet, newspaper articles and the process of emailing experts. I used primary sources such as pictures to visually display to me how the culture has changed in appearance due to European colonisation. I presented my findings as an oral presentation and created a PowerPoint to coincide. From my research I concluded that Native American …show more content…
I also used a variety of books including educational books and encyclopaedias. When utilising these sources I found that many challenges and issues arose. However this allowed me to further develop my research skills, which included being resourceful, the importance of resilience as a researcher, note taking and recording an annotated …show more content…
I also chose this method of Presentation as I believe it played best to my strengths as I am good at public speaking and not as good at presenting gathered information in a essay form. My outcome allowed me to present most of my key findings and answer all my sub headings and my original question. Doing this form of presentation I had to take into consideration and audience and what they would like to watch and hear. Therefore when creating my PowerPoint I made sure to include interesting visuals and video also when I was talking my intentions were to stand confidently and talk with enthusiasm all these factor combined created and interesting presentation for the audience. This assisted me in other presentation as so far in year 12 I had not had many oral presentation and doing this one helped me to think more about the audience and which helps me to concentrate on trying to be confident and intriguing which this year will assist me in future presentations in other subjects. I believe my overall presentation will be helpful to lots of people as I was able to present how the past can effect people for a long time
The aim of my Research Project was to discover ‘How Significant an Impact Colonisation has had on Modern Native American Culture’. I chose this topic as I am very interested in native cultures and I think it is important to know how these cultures have been impacted, due to colonisation and what can be done to help these cultures now. I used a variety of research processes including, libraries, the Internet, newspaper articles and the process of emailing experts. I used primary sources such as pictures to visually display to me how the culture has changed in appearance due to European colonisation. I presented my findings as an oral presentation and created a PowerPoint to coincide. From my research I concluded that Native American …show more content…
I also used a variety of books including educational books and encyclopaedias. When utilising these sources I found that many challenges and issues arose. However this allowed me to further develop my research skills, which included being resourceful, the importance of resilience as a researcher, note taking and recording an annotated …show more content…
I also chose this method of Presentation as I believe it played best to my strengths as I am good at public speaking and not as good at presenting gathered information in a essay form. My outcome allowed me to present most of my key findings and answer all my sub headings and my original question. Doing this form of presentation I had to take into consideration and audience and what they would like to watch and hear. Therefore when creating my PowerPoint I made sure to include interesting visuals and video also when I was talking my intentions were to stand confidently and talk with enthusiasm all these factor combined created and interesting presentation for the audience. This assisted me in other presentation as so far in year 12 I had not had many oral presentation and doing this one helped me to think more about the audience and which helps me to concentrate on trying to be confident and intriguing which this year will assist me in future presentations in other subjects. I believe my overall presentation will be helpful to lots of people as I was able to present how the past can effect people for a long time