BE POSITIVE!

Hello and welcome back positive people to another PLP post!

If you know me, you’ll know that I’m a living breathing example of someone who thinks positive most of the time! (not all the time though, sometimes its ok to be negative). And if you’ve read my Who in the world likes Brussel sprouts?! Post, you’ll know that I love health and nutrition! Therefore I was super happy when I heard the title of our project was “Healthy ever after!”. 

Just a brief little project over view; “healthy ever after” was a PLP challenged based learning project, with the option to choose one of three different health categories. The category’s were, Metal health, Physical health, and Health literacy. I chose Metal health, with the focus of positive thinking. My essential question was: How can you build positivity, through step by step positive thinking? To answer this question, I started small, by defining positive thinking. “Positive thinking is an optimistic and upbeat way of thinking, that helps you see the good in life and handle any challenge thrown your way.”

As I started to write my script for my short informative video about my essential question, I thought of two of the most important tips that help me stay positive. The first one was the power of the word YET. My second tip and one I use often is the use of affirmations. Both of them I explain more in depth in my video, but they were essentially my best tips. 

The tips I took away from this project included challenged based learning, a new PLP project approach. Challenge based learning is a four step process, that we used to effectively utilize our learning. We used a workbook with different categories for each of these steps, so that we could keep track of our process.

Healthy Every After Workbook!

The steps were: Step 1 🌀Engage – Connect with the big idea, think about the impact on you personally, consider new viewpoints, and focus on the challenge’s call to action. Step 2 🔍 Investigate – Ask questions, find ways to research these questions, and analyze your findings to help define your solution. Step 3 ⚡ Act – Don’t stop at defining your solution—put it into action! Then evaluate its effectiveness and determine what refinements could have the most impact. Step 4 🪞Reflect, Document, Share – Document your experience using audio, video, images, and photography throughout the Challenge. Reflect on the ongoing content collection. The deepest learning occurs by considering the process, thinking about your learning, and analyzing content-concept relationships.

Here’s my video!:

 

Thank you so much for reading another one of my PLP posts!!

Stay positive!

-Ailie 💜