Answer #1

1. My Essential Question is What is the best way to help teenage girls build self esteem? My first answer will be " changing the attitude you have toward yourself as a person". Meaning if you feel your Worthless or something to that negativity , change your game strategy with the way you feel about yourself. Take the time to find things you love and enjoy about yourself. Take the time to find your strengths and make your weaknesses your strengths. 2. Say a girl thinks she's fat or ugly or any nonsense such as that. She would stop putting her self down and work on her self esteem. She could exercise such as running or dancing. Write down things she loves and dislikes about herself and work on her dislikes. Taking the time to appreciate your positives and not Oxus on what you think are the negatives . 3. The place where I find the most evidence is with my independent component "Song". The girls came in as okay dancers and after a few short weeks , working with them and not giving up on them helped them grow into better dancers. You see when a girl can dance shes not afraid to be herself on the dance floor, when your dancing you put your own personality into it to make it you. As well as learning how to dance, I teach the girls to say positive things, instead of saying " I can't, I suck, it's hard, I'm ugly" any nonsense like that I give them ways to positivity , taking those words out of their vocabulary. Having a positive role model , helps a girl grow better. When you see someone with talent or a good self esteem , you look foward to working with that person. Every little thing counts.

Service Learning

For my first few hours I started off by talking to my Service learning advisor Debbie Head about my senior project and the things I need to accomplish . She gave me resources such as our girl scout acivity book , showing me what sort of things I can do with the girls in my troop. I also did my second Interview with her, learning new stuff about her and her profession as well as what she knows about girls and their self esteem.

Third interview questions

1. What is the best way to help teenage girls build self esteem? 2. Do you think when girls are active they have high self esteem , or if they are not active do you think they have low self esteem? 3. Do you think bad influences growing up shapes a girls self esteem? 4. What is a huge problem girls have growing up in your opinion ? 5. What issues in the world do you think effect female teenagers with their self esteem? 6. In your opinion why do you think girls have low self esteem? 7. If a girl has low self esteem , what do you think someone can do to help them love themselves? 8. Do you think being confident means your conceited and if no why? 9. What are things girls can do to keep a healthy self esteem? 10. Is there any activities such as sports , that you think girls have the best self esteem?

Self reflection

1. At this point in my project, I am learning so much. About why girls are the way they are, how you can help them, where low self esteem comes from and where it starts. Example , self esteem is taught in the home environment from parents or guardians . Depending on how you treat your child and show them how to have a high confidence level is how they will grow as a woman. I think it's P material right now, because there is a lot more I need to learn. 2. My independent component "song", I have had about 4 practices and have already been through mini abouts of " drama." . I told the girls that this is one team ,not a group ,a team of unity and that is what it needs to stay at. I've learned that unity in a team, squad, group helps ones self esteem . Being able to function in a group and have different personalities around you to support you is a great feeling. I hope to accomplish more during all my practices, raising girls self esteem. One exercise I am going to try is wearing a uniform and feeling confident. I told the girls once we get our uniforms, it will be a requirement for them to wear it every other Friday. The goal for that exercise is to see if wearing a uniform increases or decreases confidence levels. 3. I want to learn more about how parents can help girls with their self esteem, and what are things they can do to keep a high confidence level.

Science Fair Proposal

1. What is your hypothesis ?

If a teenage girl is athletic, then she will have a high self esteem.

2. Identify the Dependent , independent, and control variables in your hypothesis?

My dependent will be the the self esteem in all the girls, my independent will be if they are active or inactive, athletic or non athletic. .The control variables are the girl and their ages 14-18.

3. What is the connection between your science fair proposal And your senior project eq?

My senior project topic is self esteem in teenage girls . My science fair experiment will find out one possible answer to why girls have low self esteem.

4. How will you perform this experiment? Include the equipment you plan on using?

I have done research and found that a group of psychologists used the following survey to find if there is a relationship between a girl’s self esteem and how athletic she is:

http://all-science-fair-projects.com/project1131_140_1.html

I will interview 100 random teenage girls and have them fill out the same survey.  I will then analyze the results of this experiment using statistics to see if my results are significant.

5. Which category will your Project be listed under?
Behavior Science

What I've Learned So Far

1. During my research of this project, I have found out that almost every site has said parents are the main cause of their childs low self esteem. Not showing them enough affection or not showing them the right way. Not helping their child with learning how to love and respect themselves.

2. http://www.aboutourkids.org/articles/how_raise_girls_healthy_selfesteem
This site is good for mothers, soon to be mothers, or just plain teenage girls. Gives examples of why girls have low self esteem and how parents can help them.

3. http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/body_image/body_image.html
 A site for teenage girls with low self esteem.

Independent Component 1 Plan Approval

1. "Self Esteem In Song" , is what my I.C 1 will be called. I want to start a Song (dance) Team. A song team is like a cheerleading team without the stunts. My plan is to get the underclass men to join together and learn about self esteem in dance. Meaning with physical activity, love, and performance it will build esteem.

2. My plan will require 1-3 hours a week all year. Practices and meetings will keep us very busy.

3. My essential question is " What is the best way To help teenage girls build self esteem". So therefore I will build their self esteem by physical activity and performance.