- What did I work on?
- During this unit, ‘Why should we care about the past?’, I worked on
- Making observations, inferences and wonderings
- Using photos and articles as evidence
- Writing a CER paragraph
- Asking and answering open and closed questions
- Taking part in the Otzi Mock Trial, my role was Expert Witness
- What did I learn? Why should we care about the past?
- We should care about the past because we can find out how people live in the past; and what health issues they suffered on.
- What worked well?
- I am proud of the following work of my CER paragraph about Otzi the Ice Man, slide shows about Otzi and the evidence graphic organizer.
- I am proud of the work above because I finished them with high quality, and I made them help me when I was answering questions during the mock trial.
- What did not work well?
- I found some of this work challenging, the observations inferences and questions worksheets, museum tour viewing guide and open and closed questions.
- I found the work above challenging because they were needed to complete in a short amount of time, and the open and closed questions were tricky if you don’t look at them carefully.
- Personal Relevance
- Collaboration and communications skills are important in my future because I can use these research skills and be able to write a CER paragraph when needed.
- This is a photo of my work about.
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What did I do
I made an egg cart that should’ve been able to be been dropped from a slope and not break after it hit onto the wall.
What did I learn
I understand the newton’s laws better now after doing the experiment. Newtons first law acted on the egg cart, because the egg cart stayed in motion, when it was about to hit the wall because of inertia. Second Newton’s third law acted on the egg cart, because when the egg cart hit the wall, the wall pushed back which made the egg to crash.
What Worked
The straps of paper that should act like seatbelts worked, because it secured the egg from falling out from the cart and roll on the slope.
What didn’t work
The crumple zone that we made did not work, it was supposed to decrease the force when the egg bump into the wall. But maybe it was because it was too weak it did not decrease the force and made the egg crack.
Personal relevance
Now I know how the cars work and what will happen when it crash into another car. The force pushed toward each other which made the car crash toward each other. Also, what made the force toward each other decrease such as seatbelts and airbags.
Graphic Design
In the first unit, I made a keychain using laser cutting on wood. First, I interviewed my client and see what she want for her shape and color, which she used butterfly and purple. Second, I design in the app Inkscape and perfected it and uploaded into the files for the machine to cut the wood out. Last I perfected it by polished it with sandpaper and colored it.
3D printer
In the second unit, I was in a team and we are supposed to make all of the chess pieces on one side. First, we made our chess pawn in Tinkecad and uploaded it onto the file. Second, I used the 3D printer to print my chess pawn out. Last I sand paper it and use made it perfect.
What did I do?
We were making a balloon, using Balloons, Straw, wheels, and cardboard. The purpose of making balloon cars helped us learn and investigate about Newton’s Laws. The Criteria was to make the balloon car to move by it self and also with weights.
What did I learn?
I learned about Newtons 3 laws and how they act. For the first law, it states that an object will only move when another object acts on it. Just like that, a balloon car needs the air in the ballon released to make the car move, because the air have enough force to push the balloon car. The second law states that, the acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the net force acting on it and inversely proportional to its mass. As for the balloon car, it means that if the mass is larger it needs more force to push it; when the mass is smaller, it needs less force to push it. For the last Newton’s law, for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. When this law acts on the balloon car, it means that the air in the balloon car (opposite force) push the car to move.
What worked?
The laws did act on the balloon car, because the car did need force to push it, also it do have an opposite force that acted on it. Now after the experiment, I understand the Laws of Newton.
What did not work?
At first the balloon car did not work, because we tied the rubber band securing the balloon car too tight. Later we found out about that and loosen the rubber band that made the balloon car able to run faster and more smooth, because more force was released.
Personal Relevance
This unit of balloon cars helped me learn about Newton’s Laws and helped me notice that everything in real life need Newton’s laws to work. Such as a leaf dropping from a tree, both the firs, second, and, third law is all acting on it.
What are we doing?
Writing a fictional story based on a theme that matters to me.
What are we learning
Theme (my purpose for writing this story, my message to readers)
Character Development (creating believable characters with positive & negative traits)
Plot (the sequence of events in my story; Western and Eastern approaches to storytelling)
Setting (the world that I create for my story)
Whats working?
I like the process of writing my part of the story that is building up for the climax, because you can foreshadow and introduce new characters and settings.
I am proud of the climax, because I show the emotions and feelings that the main character had from their point.
I get the idea from our school and how sometimes people felt being excluded, and how in our school we always work hard
My favorite sentence from my story is: “For the first time in months, I didn’t feel sad. I didn’t feel alone. I felt happy.”
Areas of growth
I struggled with the climax, because at first it was hard for me to express the character’s feelings and emotions, in small amount of writing.
But later I went on writing by taking my emotions in daily life and put them into the story when I am working hard for some thing in real life.
My least favorite part of my story is the part of the dialogues, because it was hard to write them without making them with grammar problems.
Personal Relevance
Creative writing affects me, because it helps me express my feelings from my real life also, and I can also put thing that bother me in real life and think how my character will think too.
What did I do?
I played with INDI Robot Cars and Gravitrax to strengthen my critical thinking skills.
What did I learn?
Critical thinking is finding problems and trying to solve them while thinking through.
What worked?
I thought critically when I problem solved to the INDI robot cars. When we were using the problem cards we cannot find the color card that makes it turn left I used my critical thinking skills with my teammates by going through the cards and looking at the key to solve the problem.
What did not work?
I struggled when we cannot make the car turn right to go to the other color card, but the car kept on going to the right corner.
Personal Relevance
Today’s learning helped me understand the actual meaning of critical thinking. Also, how to teamwork. with teammates and solve problems with Critical thinking and working together at the same time.
Why have a digital portfolio at SAS?
Creating a portfolio, or blog is a great way to collect all the work you’ve done throughout your academic career. You can include academic, athletic, and personal artifacts or experiences that you want to share with a wider audience. This is a great way to organize all your learning in one place and you can take it with you when you leave SAS. When you make your portfolio, you create posts that are categorized according to your subject. Some categories have already been set up for you, but if you need more categories you can add them as needed. It’s important that your posts have the following:- An engaging title – this should not include the name of the subject since this is referenced in the category. Think of this as the first opportunity to engage and hook your reader!
- Body – this is where you share your learning. This should include a combination of text and media in the form of images, graphics, and embedded videos. You should always consider how your post looks to your audience. Is it engaging and organized? Do they want to keep reading?
- Category – select one that has been set for you or add a new category. Posts can have more than one category e.g. Humanities and Myself as a Learner
- Tags – create tags that can be used as keywords to describe your post. Tags help organize your post a little more! Aim to have 3-5 tags for each post. For example, if you are posting about a novel you wrote, you might want the following tags: #Fiction, #MurderMystery, #Theme, #PlotDiagram
Take a look at the images below to find a few helpful tips for creating your posts and using the block editor:
Getting Familiar with the Block Editor:
Making a New Post:
