Oliver's Portfolio

Evidence of Organization:

How useful is my science notebook as a learning tool?

My science notebook is a useful learning tool because I use it to keep track of classes so i can go back and check what we learnt if i forgot something.

How has my notebook become more useful as the school year passes?

My science notebook has been more useful through the year because at the start of the year we made a table of contents so during the year i can check it and go back for reviewing.

My science notebook was not a useful tool at the start of the year

At the start of the school year my science notebook was not as much of a useful tool because it took me awhile to get used to writing which page and title and date onto the table of contents each time i make a note. which resulted in my first unit and a half having extremely messy notes. Because of that though my science teacher noticed some other kids having issues with it as well so she would remind us each time it was time to do that.

 

Evidence of Active Learner Habits

I think I did a approaching during semester one for active learner in science because I would frequently forget my pencils and erasers. Close to the end of semester one we had to write a Active Learner reflection to reflect on how well we think we did. At the end of that reflection there was a place to put your goal for future improvements. My goal was to remember to bring my pencils and erasers and to submit things on time because I had one assignment late by one class. I think I have improved decently during semester two because I have a system to do my homework on time and I have a pencil case now

Caption: CER Claim-Evidence-Reasoning of the Human Population and Consumption of Natural Resources Unit

Caption: Active Learner Goal Setting

Something I think I did well on is working on being able to hit the ball over the net because it was my first time playing pickle ball and I could not hit it with the right strength because it was a plastic ball with no bounce and I was not used to that so it would sail way over the net or not go over it at all.

Something I think I could work on is serving because I kept missing while serving and it was something I definitely needed to work on more.

1- PRESENTATION
This work is part of the unit on the World War
It’s to assess my writing skills
What I needed to do is help a person in the war write a letter to his family about the things going on
I worked individually for the letter above but my partner wrote another letter
I chose to present this work because I feel like its the most impressive work I did
 
2- FEEDBACK and REFLECTION
My teacher gave me the following feedback:

Comment:Your letter is matching your partner’s. You made a good effort reusing previous vocabulary and grammar structures. However there are still some issues with the basic grammar: You often add EST as IS in english sentences, but you don’t need to do so in French. Also, there are quite a lot of sentences where the verb is rather missing or not conjugated.

I think it’s quite accurate because grammar is my weak part and I need to conjugate more
In order to keep improve, my next steps will be to practice on Conjugemos (An website for helping conjugation) more often.
I will follow these steps by practicing 20 minutes a day in the following CNY break
 
3- CONCLUSION
Overall in this unit I have learned how to write letters in french
I think i can apply this knowledge in real life when I text/email my friends who may be french
I am feeling quite confident reusing it because I feel that although my grammar isn’t the best people can still sort of understand it

During this unit something I think I did well was that I improved and worked with my friends and learnt smashing for the first time as well has learning how to use back hand serving

Something that I think I could do better in is back hand because I still often miss it sometimes and struggle with hitting it over the net while everyone else is able to hit it over the net with backhand

One thing we did and my favorite part was the Speed Challenge because in the speed challenge I think I learnt the most with tests and fixes, especially when I built the car because it kept going off course and swerving for no reason, as show in the power point below I spent a lot of time building and fixing the bot with multiple tests:

When I finally finished it we ended with a near second place.
Something that I could improve upon if I did this again is not being so un efficient because lots of times I got disqualified because I wasn’t done.
But one thing I think I did well is building and testing because although lots of things broke apart and did not go well I still managed to finish good.

The goal of this unit was to design a cool tissue box with good atheistic and functionality. While we built it we would make tests and design choices to teach us how to design better things.

The first thing we did was draw a outline for all the pieces as a blue print, then we cut it out on foam sheets and pieced up a white box prototype, after that we uploaded the design ideas onto ink scape and started designing it to be able to get cut. After we finished designing and cutting it out on wood with a laser cutter we finally started painting it. When we finally finished painting it we stuck it together and we had our finishing product.

Some skills I exercised are planning with blue prints or design on Inkscape.
If I could do this again I would be more careful because all the pieces that I stuck on were slightly wonky.
And something that I think I did well on is the design because it looks very bright and neon and cool.

The purpose of the project is to learn what a good relationship is and the aspects of it. As well as learning about the unhealthy relationships and the aspects of those. We learnt this by making a presentation about a couple in media and analyzing the relationship as shown above. (We chose Jim and Pam in The Office)

Some things that are important that we learnt were:
1. Power Balances, we need to have both sides of the relationships to have balanced authority
2. Consent, both sides of the relationship have to say yes to the relationship
3. Respect, both sides need a decent human respect towards each other

In the soccer unit I think I did well when we played the matches, although im not that good I still tried my best with lots of thanks to a friend in the class for helping me and encouraging me and teaching me

But something I think I didint do as well is the actual playing, I missed a lot of shots and missed a lot of passes, as well as not kicking hard enough so the ball weakly wobbled to the goal and was easily blocked

Something I would improve on if we did this again is practice a bit at home so I wouldent be such a anchor to my team and help score to not feel like they are failing because of me

Something I think I did well was my talk time, which was 1.6 minutes, compared to the average I did well because this means I didint over do it or under do it.

Something I could grow in is talk times, the average was around 5 times, but I also only did 5 times, to not over do it I could talk 6 times so I could still do more than the average but still not over do it

Another thing I think I did well is the one moment in the audio where my thinking was clear when I talked about the multiple things I did to make my story better and when I tried to ask a open ended question.

Another thing that I think I didint do so well is the one moment where I didint include as much people as I wanted to, to improve upon this I could ask more open ended questions or prompt someone to talk who isnt talking as much as others.

(The numbers are the time stamps of where I talked)