frostfire
01-13-2009, 11:47
Gentlemen,
- Does anyone has catchy-succinct presentation material on the topic of dehydration and nutrition, that I can use as a template?
- Please offer me your critique/ideas for my program idea below. Do I miss anything?
Background:
I've been tasked to give a presentation over dehydration in all season and nutrition to a group of ROTC students. Target audience probably ranges from early to late teenagers. I've perused previous topics here and took some material. I've also gathered materials from FM's and health literature. I got those urine color chart for visual aid.
Instead of delivering a complete/elaborate presentation, I am more concerned of delivering an effective one. That is their retaining useful information even if they only pay attention 50% of the time. I am expecting/anticipating ADD. I figure showing them charts and graphs of body surface area to water loss at certain temperature is less effective than telling them "if your urine looks like coca cola, present yourself to the ER." I'm looking for a mantra like "sight alignment, trigger control" that's repeated a few times at the range during coaching so that even if the participants forget the rest of the instruction, they remember that key point. The presentation will be super successful if they remember/understand enough that they can even educate their peers about the topic.
Program idea (rough cut):
- Start with a funny youtube clip related to the topic as icebreaker, attention-grabber etc.
- Win their hearts and minds by telling that regardless of how they see themselves or how others see them, I'll treat them like mature adult. Instead of giving a bunch of do's and dont's, I'll give actions and consequences. So they'd know if they play, they pay. Their choice.
- Questions on what they already know (ie. anybody ever get dehydrated? how do you know?.....if you're thirsty, you already are etc. etc.)
- Definitions
- Symptoms
- Worst case scenario (fear as motivating factor like those pics of severe STD cases in health class)
- Treatment
- Prevention
I'll be sure to address (protein)supplement, multivitamin, creatine, caffeine drinks, high-fructose carbonated drinks, danger of over-hydration etc. For nutrition, I plan to just show different nutrients, their functions in a practical manner, the food groups containing them, empty calories, and the mantra "everything in moderation (and balance)." I'd probably like to throw in some hooaa one-liner throughout the presentation. Also even if this is a military setting, I would have to be politically correct and avoid upsetting anyone who may be obese, overweight, bulemic, etc. To minimize attention deficit and boredom, I figure the presentation should not last more than 45min to an hour
- Does anyone has catchy-succinct presentation material on the topic of dehydration and nutrition, that I can use as a template?
- Please offer me your critique/ideas for my program idea below. Do I miss anything?
Background:
I've been tasked to give a presentation over dehydration in all season and nutrition to a group of ROTC students. Target audience probably ranges from early to late teenagers. I've perused previous topics here and took some material. I've also gathered materials from FM's and health literature. I got those urine color chart for visual aid.
Instead of delivering a complete/elaborate presentation, I am more concerned of delivering an effective one. That is their retaining useful information even if they only pay attention 50% of the time. I am expecting/anticipating ADD. I figure showing them charts and graphs of body surface area to water loss at certain temperature is less effective than telling them "if your urine looks like coca cola, present yourself to the ER." I'm looking for a mantra like "sight alignment, trigger control" that's repeated a few times at the range during coaching so that even if the participants forget the rest of the instruction, they remember that key point. The presentation will be super successful if they remember/understand enough that they can even educate their peers about the topic.
Program idea (rough cut):
- Start with a funny youtube clip related to the topic as icebreaker, attention-grabber etc.
- Win their hearts and minds by telling that regardless of how they see themselves or how others see them, I'll treat them like mature adult. Instead of giving a bunch of do's and dont's, I'll give actions and consequences. So they'd know if they play, they pay. Their choice.
- Questions on what they already know (ie. anybody ever get dehydrated? how do you know?.....if you're thirsty, you already are etc. etc.)
- Definitions
- Symptoms
- Worst case scenario (fear as motivating factor like those pics of severe STD cases in health class)
- Treatment
- Prevention
I'll be sure to address (protein)supplement, multivitamin, creatine, caffeine drinks, high-fructose carbonated drinks, danger of over-hydration etc. For nutrition, I plan to just show different nutrients, their functions in a practical manner, the food groups containing them, empty calories, and the mantra "everything in moderation (and balance)." I'd probably like to throw in some hooaa one-liner throughout the presentation. Also even if this is a military setting, I would have to be politically correct and avoid upsetting anyone who may be obese, overweight, bulemic, etc. To minimize attention deficit and boredom, I figure the presentation should not last more than 45min to an hour