So we had to make a museum exhibit as an addition to our science project and blue sky. We had three different groups for this, desire, means and results. I was assigned to be in the desire group. So for this, we started to do research for the desire of the exploration. This part of the process was pretty easy, as we had a google doc to do all of it, and we worked well together as well. Then we went on to do the planning for the exhibition, which we also did easily because we had the idea for it pretty fast. Finally we move onto the exhibition itself, and this was the hard part. For the exhibition we had three boards for each sub heading, and we had to carry these boards outside to the hallway, which was kind of frustrating. So then, we finally got onto the part where people arrived and starting looking around. Unfortunately during this time, no one even looked at the area with the exhibition! Overall I thought this was an okay experience but I prefered the blue sky part of it.

How did the raven bring the light? Well the story is a thing in itself, but my project reflects it on another level. As you can see in this cardboard box, there is essentially a mini theatre. This mini theatre projects the raven from a light shining at the cardboard wall with a raven cut into it. There are two lenses you can look through, the convex and concave lens. The flashlight is in the box, and the light shines from it, which is bouncing off a mirror, which finally reflects to go through the hole. This makes a projection of a raven on the far wall of the box. This happens because light won’t go through a surface that isn’t translucent or transparent, or see through in simpler terms. I know how to do this, because we learnt about the property of light, and how it works because we learnt about it in class. Here is a picture:

So, we had to do a visual on the thinker, scientist, and artist we researched the other day. I decided to do a more metaphoric twist on my picture by drawing three flowers, spread out on a grass field. These represent the different kind of people they were, and how different but how similar they are.The app I used was paper 53, like usual to make the visual. We had an interesting process during the making of this visual as well. We had to first research the three people we were assigned, the people I had were Fra Angelico who was the artist, Puerto Aretino who was the thinker, and Paracelsus who was the scientist. Then we did a Venn Diagram on all three of the people to see how similar and or different they are. Then we started to do the visual that represents the three people of the Renaissance. Here’s the picture:

First Draft:

Final Draft:

A week ago we went to many different religious centres to study and learn about the religions. We went to some eastern religion centres, and western ones too. I think we learnt a lot more than what we had originally just been looking up for our EE’s. We went into more detail on the religions, and got to know what it’s like to be a follower of them. Here are some pictures of the places we went to:

So, the first draft of my worldview is finally done, the app explain everything is very frustrating and uncooperative, but I finally got there. Everything but having to struggle through the app was fun, and I am quite proud of the final product. Although some parts were cut off because of the apps difficulty, I think I am proud of something I put more than about 6 hours into. Here it is:

http://youtu.be/AJiWEr_Bmic

Our SLCs are coming up, and I’m ready! This is the blog post for the conference coming soon.

PRIDE

The work I am most proud of is my quilt square. I think I did a really good job on this because of the level of detail that it has. I also liked the sewing that was on the background of the square which I did by hand. I enjoyed planning it and creating it and here is the original blog post.

GROWTH AS A LEARNER

Growth as a learner for me was shown in the difference between the Julius Caesar Unit and the Religion Unit. I think I learned more because I have been more efficient and I have learned to hand things in at the proper time. I feel like I have gained more from working harder.

WHAT HAS DEMONSTRATED MY GROWTH MINDSET

My growth mindset grew during the presentation of our Destination Imagination Project. I think  during that time I learned a lot about teamwork and building a vehicle from scratch.  I grew in courage when I got up in front of an audience to present the project.  I also learned to be more productive in a small amount of time based on the deadline that was given to us.  This is the blog post about it.

I was on the stage, performing… Wait, guys isn’t that a little too late in the story to start? Yeah, you’re quite right.

We started this unit on reading the Shakespeare play ‘Julius Caeser’ I managed to keep up quite well on the reading of the book, and the videos that were on the app as well. Then we got assigned to the groups for the play, whom were good members and great to work with.

We wrote the script, made it modern just as we were instructed, and we were set! The play we presented went very well, considering that it was an easy scene, and we had good people on the project.

So, you wanna know about Destination Imagination, huh? Well it’s quite a story that one. We started a long time ago in a galaxy far far away… No, but seriously we started a while ago, and it looked quite exciting. Our groups objective was to make a vehicle with two propulsion systems, and to tell a story. Then we started, it went rather fast and we managed to get lucky when it comes to  the resources we got. We put in the motor from  the lawn mower we got for 20 dollars, and the second propulsion system which was a drill, then the battery and everything else, and we were ready! (Virtually)

Then we headed off to regionals, nervous but excited. The day was fun, but a lot of the time we had to stand around and wait for the next thing to happen. But finally, we were ready to present! I didn’t think we were going to do very well, but it turned out we did.

Overall, the whole DI thing wasn’t really for me, but I did have some good moments from it. Here are some pictures and a video from the event, if you are interested:

A couple of days ago I and a couple of other people had to create a biography of the famous leader Julius Caesar, but there’s a twist! You write the facts on a body and have symbols behind or around the facts representing them.

Apart from the shortness and big head that Caesar apparently had, I think our group did a fairly good job on the body biography. The symbols were also quite good, related to the facts and interesting objects such as a sword and a heart.