Here's the situation: I have to give a presentation to elementary school students on the subject of helicopter careers for about 3-5 minutes. The problem is that I am most likely going to be presenting outside, in front of a helicopter. I know the kids will just stare at the chopper and not even pay attention to me, but I am being graded so I need to have a good presentation. To keep at least some of them focused on what I am speaking about, I want visuals. I was going to use PowerPoint but that clearly won't happen. I would print out some huge pictures and hold them up with something but there's usually about a 15 mph steady wind around here with gusts to 25 on most days. Does anyone have any ideas on how to incorporate pictures for this or any other methods of attracting their attention?
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Logistics Nightmare
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As Rad said, if the rotor is going the whole thing is impossible.Assuming it isn't, you need to use the chopper itself as your visuals, since they will look at nothing else. Perhaps you can direct their attention to various parts to illustrate your talk. Perhaps you can stick large posters to various parts of the fuselage and cover them with another sheet of paper less firmly attached. Then at the appropriate part of the talk you rip off the covering paper (make sure you practice this).
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The helicopter won't be running, of course. I don't think the company that owns the helicopter will let me tape anything onto it. I guess I could use various parts of the helicopter to illustrate what I am talking about but I have no idea how I could correspond that with helicopter careers.
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"You see this propellor at the end? That's to remind you that if the people behind you aren't working hard enough, you'll spin around and crash - and the same will happen if they work too hard.""You see the rotors above? That's to remind you that if you try to stick your neck out you'll get your throat cut."Seriously, though, I presume you have several careers to talk about. Perhaps your talk on each could be centred around one part of the chopper.
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Get the kids involved in ur presentation!!
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Taking into account that the kids are going to be super-excited when they see the helicopter, have you considered giving them a one minute pep talk before they see the helicopter about all the amazing careers they could have as a helicopter-fliers (police, firefighting, emergency medical care, spies...).Or have them turn with their backs to the helicopter while you talk for a few seconds to get them interested.As for how to correspond...Police: You could show them the walkie-talkie in the cockpit and say thats how they talk to their chief.Firefighting: You could show them the navigation system on the instrument panel and say that firefighters use this to get to the location of the fire (you could also say they follow the smoke, but you wouldn't be incorporating helicopter parts).Emergency Medical Care: You could show them the upper and lower cutters (pointy sticky-out things that resemble knives, one on top of the aircraft, the other under the cockpit), and say that when the nurses and doctors are flying to their destination, they may fly into some wires (by accident) and these wires would be caught by these cutters which would effectively cut them to prevent the rotor getting tangled up (part of the Wire Strike Protection System - WASP ). However, these are not always present.Spies: Here you could talk about the rotor and how if the engine fails (with the spies on board) the helicopter will still fly (it will glide - autorotation) which means it can be landed, though probably with some diifculty, safely. They may ''oooh'' and ''aaah'' at this. Good luck!