Final Product

Hi I started quarter 2 one week ago and we are already done our first project. This project was all about how much screen time we did in a week! Our driving question was what fraction of my time is screen time on an average day. The answer that I got for this was 7/20 or 35%. That meant that I spent over one third of my time on my screen for the whole week. My average was 8.25 hours a day. That is way too much screen time.

 To get the answer to this question all week we had to keep track of how much time we spent staring at a screen, and add that information into a chart.

In order to do this we had to first learn how to make a chart. We used numbers to make (and learn how to use) our charts. What you see below is what the chart looked like when we first made it.

The next thing we needed to do is code the chart. I found this part very fascinating. We learned  that by creating a formula you can make the chart automatically add or subtract numbers. Also because I had spare time, I made it so the chart could also calculate the average screen time in a week. Without this step I would have had to add up all of the numbers on my own every single day.

The next part was learning how to make pie (and other) charts! I loved learning about how to do this I found it cool that (as long as you do it right) it will automatically change as you put more information into the chart. 

We also had to track something other than our screen time. It could be anything you want for example I decided that along with screen time I would also track how much sleep I got, and how much exercise I did. I found out that I sleep for an average of 7 hours a day and that I exercise for an average of 1 hour a day. I also learned that 60% of my exercise was playing volleyball. 

Over the whole week when we were tracking our screen time we also did some quizzes on fraction because in order to fine what fraction of my time was on screen I needed to learn about fractions. Last year in grade 7 I learned a lot about fraction so most of the math worksheets were just review. The first quiz that I did I got 100% though on the second quiz I got 1 wrong though I did get all of the bonus questions right so in the end I got 13/10. Even though I don’t like doing fractions I do think it was a important step. 

 

The very last things that I did for this project was one, hand in my final draft and two, present it in front of the WHOLE class. Just to let you know I strongly dislike presenting things in front of the class.  So as you can imagine I didn’t do so well on this step, I did well on the final product but not on the presentation.

 

Curriculum Competencies 

Applying and innovating: I showed how well I could do this by how well I spent my class time and by showing what I thought about how much screen time I had. I didn’t do as well on this because I had already done all of my math homework in the LAC block before so I found myself getting distracted easily, my table partner is also very loud and distracting. I did though help her with math questions whenever she asked. I also helped her understand how to create the pie charts. Finally I noticed that I have about the average amount of screen time that my class does though I still believe I have too much screen time.

Understanding and visualize: I showed how well I did this skill by making my numbers chart. Overall I think I did really well on this competency I not only put the sum of all my screen time but i also put the average for all of the things I tracked. I also got really good marks on the 2 quizzes I did and barely got anything wrong on my math worksheets. Finally I recorded all of my screen time hours on my sheet every day. 

Communicating and representing: I showed how well I could do this skill when I made the pie charts. I also did pretty well on this competency I had many pie charts and all of them had the right information on them. The pie charts not only show how much time was on/off screen but it also shows 2 other topics. I sadly didn’t do well in the presentation part because one I strongly dislike talking in front of a lot of people and 2 I haven’t presented in front of a whole class since March. 

Over all I think I did a good job on this project. I loved learning about how to use charts in numbers. I loved learning that I have way too much screen time and I loved learning how to make the table calculate by itself. I enjoyed this project.