20% Time Project Proposal

Name: Hannah Farr

Project Title: Horses In The Meadow

Project Start Date: November 7^th

Project Completion Date: May 14^th

Mentor’s Name: Mrs. Browning, http://michaelyani.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-to-ride-horse.html

Brief Description: For my 20% project I will be showing the basics of how to ride and take care of horses.

Overview of Project Proposal

1) Project Objective: I will be showing people how to learn the basic skills of riding and taking care of horses. So I ride horses and I want to help people that want to ride but don’t know how. So I will be showing the basics of grooming, saddling, bathing, and riding.

2) Project Rationale:  I am doing this project because I love horses and helping out with tacking and grooming. I want people who love horses to ride them if they want. When I started riding I wasn’t good at all but I progressively got better. There were kids that would come into the arena and help my instructor. I knew from then on that I wanted to help out at the barn and in the arena and it has been fun ever since. This is valuable to me because I have always loved horses and sometimes other kids need to do something they love so they aren’t as stressed because doing things you love can be like therapy.

3) Project Steps:

1. Introduce myself on my blog and explain what I’m going to talk about.

2. Talk about the basics.

3. Show some videos on how to ride or groom or tack up a horse.

4. Keep up the good work!

4) Timeline of Activities:

·         I feel like I should start off with how to groom the horse.

·         Then tacking.

·         Then washing.

·         Last for now riding

 

5) Available Human and Material Resources:

·         My instructor

·         The owner of the stables

·         My grandmother

·         Also blog posts like http://michaelyani.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-to-ride-horse.html

6) Possible Road Blocks:

·         Not knowing what to talk about next.

·         Not being able to explain what I am trying to say.

7) Research Questions:

·         How do people know where to look to find my blog?

·         How to fix the money problems?

·         How do you keep track of a horse’s health?