MP510 Psychology of the Lifespan – Written Assignment – PowerPoint on Social Indicators of Children’s
Well-Being in the US and Abroad
PowerPoint Requirements
• Minimum of 12-15 slides, not including a title slide, and reference slide(s) formatted in APA style; it is
acceptable to have more slides, if needed.
• Provide an audio recording on each slide explaining the information.
• A minimum of 8 in-text citations are required.
• In addition to your Child Trends article, at least 2 sources about that issue in the international culture must
be included.
• The textbook and/or any other scholarly or professional source(s), such as peer-reviewed journal articles,
may be used.
• Please see rubric for additional grading details
Assignment Instructions
The United States is one of the wealthiest and technologically advanced civilizations, yet it fails to rank among
any of the top countries on any indicator of children’s health and well-being (Berk, 2014).
Develop a PowerPoint presentation with audio comparing a given social indicator or issue occurring in the US and
another country.
This assignment has 4 parts:
1) selecting a social indicator and international culture,
2) finding research about the indicator as it occurs in the international culture,
3) creating a PowerPoint presentation of your research,
4) adding audio narration to each slide to present the material.
To begin, please visit the Child Trends website located at: www.childtrends.org.
• Once there, position your cursor over the “Databank” tab at the top of the page, and then click on the
“Indicators by Lifestage” tab, then click on “Infants and Young Children” and/or “Adolescents” labels on
the righthand-side. By doing so, you will be presented with many recent articles pertinent to the health
and development of youth.
• Choose and review any article related to child or adolescent mental health, psychology, or development
(e.g., poverty, developmental delays) and/or one that directly impacts youth’s psychological well-being,
such as obesity.
• Then find at least 2 scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles and/or sources from governmental
institutions or professional associations about that topic as it occurs in another culture so you can
compare and contrast the topic in the US and another country (e.g., obesity among US and Chinese
youth).
• Next, create a PowerPoint presentation in which you:
o Describe the social indicator as it occurs in each culture
o Compare and contrast the research (i.e. how do you understand the similarities and/or
differences in the research findings between cultures)
o Highlight specific information about diversity and multicultural considerations mentioned in the
research (e.g., if the issue occurs more so in girls than boys, among individuals of lower SES,
among specific ethnic group(s), etc.)
o Discuss the implications of the research for prevention and/or intervention.
MP510 Psychology of the Lifespan – Written Assignment – PowerPoint on Social Indicators of Children’s
Well-Being in the US and Abroad
• Then, using the Audio function in PowerPoint (located in the Insert menu at the top of the screen> then
Audio> then Record Audio>then Save Recording), provide audio recordings on/for each slide to orally
present the information to the viewer. Please test your microphone and ability to record, and also play
each slide’s recording to ensure it is audible to the listener.
Information on recording audio in PowerPoint
Below is one path to finding the audio recording feature in some versions of PowerPoint:
• Open PowerPoint
• Create a new PowerPoint
• Pick a slide on which to do a test audio recording
• Locate the Insert menu (likely at the top of the screen)
• Select Audio
• Select Record Audio (or Record Narration)
• Begin test recording
• Then, Save Recording
• Test again to ensure the audio recording was saved
Should students have any difficulty using PowerPoint and/or the Audio features within PowerPoint, please contact
your instructor immediately for assistance and/or consideration of an alternative format to complete this
assignment.