Ryder's Portfolio

This unit we learned how to find percentages in real world applications, for example like tips taxes and interests. For the final project I did a restaurant comparison it was between two pizza stores I needed to calculate the amount of two pizzas and calculate the difference between both of them I also learned how to calculate interest. Some formula ‘s we used was principle x interest x Time=Interest Earned.

We can use this in the future when we are eating in restaurants since after we eat we can use our own math skills to calculate the tax and tip so we won’t get scammed. We can also use this in future math for example in high school if we get questions like that I would be able to know how to solve it. Also if we are selling things in the future we can use interest equations to find a suitable price for selling a certain item. We can also calculate the percent change between two different stores so that we can save money.

Write a brief summary of what steps you went through to get to essay. 

The steps I went through is first I had to find three articles about my media which is boats then I need to jot down notes when I am reading the essay after that I had to put them into a graphic organizer and finally I put all of them into a essay and add a little more to each part.

One thing I did well in my essay. 

I think one thing I did well is I had a lot of good evidence and the evidences really supported the claim which made writing the reasoning easier and much more efficient.

One thing I still need to learn to do. 

One thing I still need to learn to do is how to write a good reasoning since in my comment even the teacher said the reasoning which is the most important part had a lot of run-on sentences so I think I need to learn how to punctuate every time when I write essays and paragraphs I also need to remember to check my work when I finish writing.

We had a project where we choose a essential question to make our project about one is what happens inside our bodies when we get sick? The second question is how does our body system work together when we play our favorite sport. I learned about how my muscular system and my respiratory system works together to help us swim since the muscular system can help us push and pull the water and the respiratory helps us breath. This shows that multiple cells are grouped together since the muscular system has special cells called muscle cells that groups together to help make the muscular system work.

• Stations Activities (Organization of Life, Body System
• Interactions, Specialized Human Cells)
• Self-directed notes (Human Body and Cell Notes)
• Watching Videos (Ali Isaacson, The pathway of Oxygen,
  Microscope Parts)
• Teacher Mini-Lessons (Heart flow diagram, Direct instruction,
  Explanation of Body System functions)
• Dissections (Pig’s heart/ lungs and Bullfrog)
• Group work (VR or Cardboard Human body project, Cell Analogies, Microscope Observations, Connectors)
• Extended learning activities (digestion simulation, mini-lung models, and knee reflex check)
• Modeling activities (Edible cell, clay or digital models) o Review Games (Kahoot, Gimkit, Cells Guess Who)
• Independent research projects (Blind Box Project)

I think group work helps because if we have parts that i don’t know i can ask my group for help and so that we can help each other making learning more efficient.

I need to work on using check lists because sometimes i get the part that is on the checklists wrong.

In this unit we built our own car with wood and then after that we use the website Onshape to design car parts so that each one of our cars are unique. I used onshape to built the top of a car we learned how to use sketch and extrude and fillit and other things too. In the end I designed a spider like shape top of a car. It was a little difficult at first because I broke my wrist so my friend Dexter had to help me built some difficult parts. In the end the car turned out great it looked pretty good and the process of building it was actually really fun since we get to be free and design by ourselves getting options to be creative and build things that we think looks good and like.

In this project we first got assigned a client for me it was my Chinese teacher 吴老师, I drew 6 different clocks on a paper then I gave them to my client and asked for what did she want or if she had anything in mind. Then I wrote her requests on a paper and went back to my classroom and created it in Inkscape. After that I asked Mr. Hatt to help me laser cut it out, when it finished cutting I spray painted it but I didn’t spray paint it correctly because the color smeared all over the wood which ruined my clock so Mr. Hatt allowed me to make another one after that I learned from my mistakes so I didn’t use spray paint I used color pens instead so that I will have a smaller chance to smear the paint. In the end I completed the clock and gave it to my client.

What do you understand about this topic

What I understand about this topic is what is a scaled copy and what is a scale and what is a scale factor. I also know how to solve equations to find the perimeter and areas of scaled figures by looking at one.

What new information do you have

Some new information is that I learned that a scaled copy is a shape that is the same shape as the original shape but in a different size.

What is interesting about this unit?

What was interesting about this unit is that I learned how to find a area or a perimeter just by looking at the scaled copy and the original copy with some numbers.

What was tricky for you

What was tricky for me was to look at a scaled copy and a original copy with very little numbers because that makes it difficult for me to calculate as it takes lots of time and calculations.

What are you proud of?

I am proud of being able to choose two pieces of relevant evidence.

What were some challenges for you?

Some challenges for me is that I didn’t introduce the characteristics before diving into the question and I didn’t write my reasoning very well because it didn’t support the evidence very well it just rephrased my evidence. Something that was also challenging is that I didn’t really know how to do Conventions which includes transition words and citations, which means the teacher isn’t able to know my knowledge on conventions which lead to me getting a bad grade on that.

If you could redo this assignment what changes would you make?

If I could redo this assignment I would write my claim better and when I am writing my reasoning I would actually use it to support my evidence not just rephrasing the evidence. I would also use more transition words, citations which will make me able to prove my knowledge on Conventions.

What will you do between now and the summative to ensure you meet standards?

I would pay more attention in class so I understand the things my teacher say even more, so that next time on the summative I wont struggle on the things I did bad on the Formative.

What advice would you give yourself moving forward?

What advice is that I would pay more attention in class so that in future tests I won’t struggle on understanding things.