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 a court reporter, I took pictures during the Mock Trial, I also interviewed some expert witnesses on the defensive team.
What did I learn? Why should we care about the past?
We should care about the past because we can know the origin of humans and how pre-historic people lived in the past.
What worked well?
I am proud of the following work my argument because I think I used resonable evidence and had a very strong argument. I am also proud of the notes I took during the mock trial, because it was very helpful to decide which team won the mock trial.
I am proud of the work above because They are very helpful.
What did not work well?
I found some of this work challenging, open and closed questions, because it was very easy to get itt mixed up. I also find taking notes during the mock trial was challenging, because I had to wrtite very fast enable to catch up with the speaker.
I found the work above challenging because it was easy to miss something important and get it mixed up.
Personal Relevance
Collaboration and communications skills are important in my future because in the future that would make me more fluent and confident during future speeches.
I made a balloon car with my partner, we used a ballon, cardboard, wheels, and tape. We used this to learn that the force that made the balloon car move was a applied force, it was also a unbalanced force from the applied force to the friction.
What did I learn?
Newton’s 1st law states that objects that stays at rest stays at rest and the objects in motion stays in motion unless there is an unbalanced force acts upon it. The unbalanced force is the air coming out of the balloon. Newton’s 3rd law states that every action has a reaction, in our experience, the action was releasing the air in the balloon, the reaction was the balloon car moving forward.
What worked?
The air in the balloon was successfully released, we put air in the balloon and squeezed the end of the balloon, when we wanted the balloon car to move, we released the end of the balloon. Something else that worked was the balloon car successfully move forward.
What did not work?
Something that did not work was that the balloon car did not move in the right direction, this was caused by the straw not pointing straight back.
Personal references
This test made me know that I should check things I’m using before I use it and incase something goes wrong.
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)
What’s Working:
I enjoyed planning for the video games and the non-existing elements that was talked about in the final story.
Areas for Growth:
I need to work on typing faster, I did not write, my full story in the limited time, so next time I could type faster so I can actually finish my story in the limited time.
Personal Relevance:
Creative writing can help me expand my creativity and imagination, this is a good skill to have when writing stories.
I played with Gravitrax and the Indi car robots, to strengthen my critical thinking, critical thinking is thinking with creativity, imagination and logically.
What did I learn?
I learned that critical thinking can benefit my future to make good choices and avoid the bad ones.
What worked?
The Indi car robots were easy for my team, we thought about Indi’s perspective so it is not only our perspective.
What did not work?
The GRAVITRAX was hard to control it always went somewhere we did not want to go.