Project 4
Holiday Giving Back
For my fourth, and final, project, I worked in a group with Haley and Bree. We all wanted to give back in our community somehow, and we threw around some different ideas. Originally, we wanted to give back to children around the Christmas holiday, but we decided on spending our time in a nursing home. Through out the month, we planned many activities and researched about the future of medicare and nursing facilities. After planning our project out, we got in contact with a local nursing home that our school works with. Through many contacting, we scheduled a date and prepared for our visit. As well, we wanted to create a scale down model to represent the holidays and the room in the home we'd be in, even if it was not accurate. While we worked on the visit, we also did some research on medicare. We had asked a few teachers and staff in our school to answer some questions about their opinion on future of medicare. At the end, we created our new future plan for medicare that could hopefully make it less expensive for Americans.
Working together really helped bring our project together. We had three people to bounce ideas off of each other that really helped chose what direction we wanted to go in. We all looked forward to our visit to the nursing home to give back to our community.
Working together really helped bring our project together. We had three people to bounce ideas off of each other that really helped chose what direction we wanted to go in. We all looked forward to our visit to the nursing home to give back to our community.
Synthesis
To synthesis is to form a combination of ideas to create a new idea. This was important when planning our project, and another benefit of choosing to work in a group. While we had to generate some new form of idea, it wasn't easy at first. But once we got to planning and talking things out, we were able to do it. Our English was the most easiest to start with, followed by our art, and lastly history. English, we created new activities by using the old ones that elders like to participate in. Art, we used different materials to create a big piece. And history, we took an old plan with peoples opinions to help create a new plan that will help benefit all Americans.
EnglishChoosing our path for the English was most important. We had first research activities that nursing homes usually do with their residents. From there, we created a combination of different activities and created them to be more new and related to our theme. We planned and created two different activities, MadLibs and Bingo. MadLibs are holiday themed, like Frosty The Snowman. We created two different bingo boards, a holiday one with Santa, elf, snow, etc., and the other was a standard bingo board. As well, we also created holiday cards that we would use if it was before Christmas. Lastly, we also created a short story book about a candy cane with the uneven stripes. Charlie, the candy cane, had uneven stripes and everyone made fun of him for it. When he went to go sled, other candy canes made fun of him and he ran away. On his way home, another candy cane, Chloe, told him his stripes were cool and liked them. From then on, other candy canes stopped making fun of him and included him in games. All three items we synthesized to create new pieces.
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ArtArt was a little harder to chose since we didn't know what path we wanted to do. All three of us wanted to do something new that we hadn't made yet. After planning and looking at google images, we decided to make a scale model of a room to represent what we do at the nursing home and what we think it would look like. We knew that it wouldn't be entirely accurate and wouldn't represent everything. We used cardboard for our room and laser cut a fireplace and a door. We painted the floor to look like dark old wood and the wall was a tan. We then 3d printed a Christmas tree, couch, and table. The Christmas tree we hand painted the ornaments, and spray painted the other objects. The Christmas tree represents the holiday, the couch represents something that will be in the room, and the table is to represent that will be making activities and playing bingo. We synthesized this whole piece to create a newer idea. By using four different materials (3d printing, laser cut, cardboard, and paint) we were able to make a small scale model that will help portray what will do.
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HistoryHistory was another important thing to decide what we would do. Somehow, we wanted to create a newer plan that will help Americans afford medicare and change it. We began to research different laws and things about medicare that can help us learn more about medicare. As well, we wanted to get different opinions on medicare, so we had asked some teachers in our building to answer 5 questions about their future of medicare. That then helped us decide what areas we needed to improve in for our new plan of medicare. We took the five most important ones that stuck out to help create a new one. The first one to create a law that would benefit all Americans, all ages. The second one was to make sure that medicare will cover U.S. citizens when they travel outside of the U.S. so they don't have to pay for another package and worry about insurance when they travel. The third one was to make every American entitled to have medicare, they should not have to qualify. The fourth was to create new plans that will benefit everyone. As we know, the plans cover certain areas and if you want whatever plan, you have to pay a lot of money and qualify for it. We decided to make it that everyone can afford the plans, as well make a plan that will include all three in one. We synthesized by creating a new plan by using old laws.
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To the left is our story book we wrote about the candy cane with the uneven stripes
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To the left is our future medicare plan.
Our fist step is to have every tax paying American pay $100 into the government. Then the government will take that $100 and add it into a separate account. This account will be put into place that will feed into a medicare fund so that everyone can have medicare. Old law: Every U.S. citizen is eligible for medicare at age 65 New law: Medicare for all people all ages Changing this for medicare for all will help everyone get coverage at birth. Old law: Medicare does not cover for U.S. Citizens outside of the of the United States. New law: Medicare will be covered no matter where you go. A lot of Americans travel outside of the U.S. for vacations and business trips, and to get insurance coverage you have to pay for an extra insurance package. Allowing this to be part of the Medicare will help Americans save money and not make Medicare expensive. Old law: You have to qualify for medicare New law: Everyone is entitled to have medicare. To qualify for medicare, you have to meet one of the three standards that medicare has. By changing that to everyone being entitled will help Americans get the insurance coverage they need even if they do not meet the standards. |
If the average American income is roughly $59,055, 10% of that income will go into medicare plan. That being said, $5,905.50 goes into medicare yearly. The average American will need to pay $492.12 a month to support their medicare for the future. The old pan has the American pay 6.2% of their income into the system, which only has them paying %3,543.30 yearly, which breaks down to $295.27. Paying little more each month will help cover for all the medicare expenses that are needed. Of course, this would be different for an American whose income is only $20,000 a year. With research on medicare system and how it works, we were able to figure out an appropriate plan that may help Americans for their future.
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To the left is our future of medicare video. We had interviewed some adults in our building to ask them their opinions on medicare. With the feedback we got we were able to make out future plan based on what they had shared.
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To the left is some pictures from our visit to Spiritrust Lutheran on 1/9/19. Four of the residents helped to participate in the craft activity. We made centerpieces for the dining room tables. We took a clear mason jar and covered it with glue and then rolled it in bath salts. Unfortunately, we did not have time to help decorate the jaws in ribbon, plastic red cranberries, white rocks for inside with a fake candle switch.
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To the left is the little scale model that we created for the nursing home. What we hope to achieve in a later project is to maybe suggest this to the nursing home for a remodel. As well. a story can relate to the stockings.
During the visit, an elder named Elmer had showed us all the stockings he knitted for his children, grand children, and great children. He said when a new child is born in his family, he makes a new one. So far, he has made 42 |