We were given a task to create an inquiry question about Harry Potter. My question was ” Can I create a Facebook page for Hogwarts school to promote the school like a business?”
I designed a page that showed why it’s a good school to attend and information about it. It has photos of the school and students, a tour, the houses you could be in and some classes you could take like Potions. The main thing is the sign up button. It takes you to a survey to complete to tell you which Hogwarts house you would attend. I had to do a lot of research about Harry Potter because I knew only a little bit about the books. I watched about 5 movies I had not seen before and did research on the internet.
When I started this project I thought that it was going to be easy but I was wrong. I thought that I was just going to create a page and a survey to do but it was a lot more work than that. I had some difficult times building this Facebook page. For example, the link for signing up was not working at first and trying to find hidden features.
For the exhibition I had a poster board that shows the qr code that takes you to the Facebook page as well as all the houses and a description of the Facebook page. I also had my MacBook open to my Facebook page so that people could scroll through it. I had a separate paper that showed people the results of the survey.
I had a lot of people take the survey and many said they loved it. I had them sign up to which house they where assigned after the survey. The majority of the people were part of the Ravenclaw House with Hufflepuff coming in second with Slytherin and Gryffindor tied for third.
My group for the exhibition set up our station like the great hall for Hogwarts. We had fake candles hanging from the ceiling and we had Christmas lights because it was Christmas time. We also had to have a food element. My group chose a chocolate fountain with things to dip in it.
Over all I thought that the Harry Potter exhibition was a good one. There were a lot of great projects that I saw. The library looked like the real Hogwarts school and the students looked like real Hogwarts students.
