The objective of my five minute presentation is to give students a quick rundown on sleep. Sleep plays a huge rule on the human body, and I feel that this topic is often misunderstood by most people. My topic is Psychiatry, so a presentation about sleep would be relevant because sleep cycles can play a magnificent role on a persons mental health.
1) I'll begin by asking students by random selection, "why do you sleep?" I expect answers such as "to rest ." After that, will move on to my introduction (hook), to further explain the mysterious topic of sleep.
2) After the audience's answers, I will move on to the introduction or the hook, by giving a few fun facts about sleep that most people do not know. This hook will engage students and will hopefully succeed in, well, hooking them in. These fun facts will include statistics on the most popular sleep positions and other statistics.
3) I then plan on explaing how certain sleep patterns such as insomnia, sleep deprivation, irregular REM cycles, etc. can affect the human psyche.
4) After explaing the irregular sleep patterns, I will explain how a psychiatrist often works with patients to cure these sleep disorders such as medications and other treatments.
5) to wrap up my presentation, i will check for understanding by asking student the consequences of certain unhealthy sleep patterns, and hopefully this will open the eyes (no pun intended) of my classmates.
6) for my visual, i will bring a poster with a few different illustrations, graphs, and statistics relating to sleep.
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ReplyDeleteAs this is such a heavily scientific topic, I will be listening for facts and experimentation from at least two credible sources. (Medical journals may be good resources.)