This unit was un Riel

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The school year is finally nearing its end, and it’s time for the last ever humanities blog post that I will write as a ninth grader.  This unit has truly been one to remember, and has taught me a lot about both the subject at hand, and about myself and my work habits.

The first thing that I would like to touch bases on is the driving question. The driving question of this whole entire unit was how does power alter relationships. This question has been at the centre of all of the work done for this unit and had been something that has really made me rethink the effects of power, and the extent of how it effects our everyday lives.

The first piece of work that we completed was our Louis Riel book report. My whole class was tasked to read this comic by Chester Brown that summarized the life of and events that occurred involving Louis Riel. Since I have already done a complete summary of this assignment in another post of mine, I won’t go into to much detail, but basically Louis riel was a Metis who stood up for his people when they were being taken advantage of by the English, and it ended up costing him his life. The story of Louis riel gave me a greater insight into the effects that power can hold, and shows how easily power can influence both good and bad behaviour.

Louis Riel wasn’t all that we researched in this unit, we also looked at and talked about the gold rush, the CPR railway, and the Numbered Treaties. I’ll start by giving you a little bit of insight concerning the Gold rush. The gold rush really blew up in the 19th century, where many people of all different ages, classes, and races, traveled to Canada in hopes of striking it big and hitting the mother load. During the gold rush, social status and class didn’t matter as much as money and survival.

The CPR was also a big part of this unit. The CPR railway requires a lot of work to build, and the majority of the workers were Chinese. These Chinese workers risked there lives everyday and had to withstand the dangerous conditions that came with working on the railway. The railway was a big part of trade if, and was also used as defence against America. This railway has served many purposes, but the one that I found most important was the fact that it expanded trade across Canada and made Vancouver into the bustling city that it is today.

Lastly I would like to talk about the Numbered treaties. If you didn’t already know, treaties are terms of agreement between the indigenous peoples and the Canadian Government. The treaties were put in place to negotiate land and cohabitation. In many ways, the indigenous people were misled and taken advantage of with these treaties, and were bought out of their land, and in many cases had their rights and culture taken away from them. These treaties do still exist today, but many people have forgotten about them, and therefore do not abide by them today.

These were all things that I had to learn before I could move on to the animation portion of this unit. He final project for the unit was to create a two to three minute animation about a person or event that fell under one of these five categories, Manitoba/the Red River, Canadian Pacific Railway, First Nations Perspectives, the development of BC /the Gold Rush, and Immigration. After looking into it and doing some research, I chose to create my animation based on Simon Fraser and the story of his exploration of the Rockies, as well as his discovery of what is now called the Fraser River. 

 

The next thing to do was to start researching and putting I this research into a story. I after these steps, I created a storyboard to make the filming process easier. When creating the actual animation, I first experimented animating using keynote magic moves, but ended up actually using an app called FlipaClip instead. After drawing, editing, and adding sound to my final animation draft, my whole class had a peer critique where we watched everybody’s videos, and gave each other feedback.

This whole unit has really been one to remember, and as much as I am sad to watch it come to an end, I know that the knowledge that I learned here will be beneficial for me next year and in the years to come

Causation and Correlation

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Our most current math project was out Causation and Correlation project. My partner Melanie and I were tasked to create both a Causation and a Correlation that we would then collect data for and make graphs to show this data and prove our hypothesis. You may be wondering, what is a Causation? Well a Causation is when a variable causes another variable. For this portion of the project, we created a survey on the topic of how school and homework effects our stress levels, and made the assumption that school causes rising stress levels in students. 

We created many pie charts to showcase our data from the survey. The data from these charts was mainly collected from grade nine students, and almost all of them put down that stress about homework has prevented them from socializing, performing everyday tasks like cleaning their rooms, and have confirmed that most homework is assigned in the months of April and June.


 

In our survey, we also had many bar graphs that show us which classes cause the most stress, give out the most homework, and what stresses people out the most, which judging by the survey would be schoolwork. With all of this data, I think it is safe to say that school definitely does cause rising stress levels in students, and our Causation was valid. 

 

Next, we created our correlation. A correlation is when two variables correlate with each other, but do not cause one another. Just as an example, lets take two random variables like the amount of car crashes per year and the population of pelicans. These two things do not cause one another, but maybe their numbers in the data correlate with each other and have the same pattern. This example is definitely not a Causation, but could be a good example of a correlation. For this section of the project, we chose to compare the amount of earthquakes to the population of whooping cranes. We graphed the data that we found online, and put it into a graph. As you can see, the numbers are very similar, but it is still a correlation and not a causation because the population of whooping cranes has no effect over earthquakes whatsoever. 

This has been our Causation and Correlation project. It has been a great learning experience, and I am proud of the work that my partner and I had created.

Year end TPOL

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With the year coming to a close, it’s time for yet another transitional presentation of learning (TPOL). Like many of my other TPOL’s, I will talk about a project from each subject that I feel represents the best of my work and why. 

I’ll start by talking about my science project on reproduction. We had the amazing opportunity to clone dandelions using asexual reproduction. I took good care of these five dandelion plants, and was so proud when not only one, but two of the dandelions sprouted. This project was the most enjoyable of any of the science projects that we’ve done all year. The project was something that really resonated with me mainly because it required a hands on experiment to do with nature, which is one of my favourite topics. I feel that the work I produce when I’m passionate about a subject is of better quality than that of a subject that I don’t really care much about. I’m very proud of the work that I put into growing these plants and creating an informational videos about them, and that is why I chose this project over any other one that I did this year in science. Even thought I was proud of the outcome of the project, I recognize that there is always room for growth, and I do think that I could’ve communicated a bit better with my group when finishing up the final video. 

The next subject is math. The proudest that I have been about a project of this subject was during our road trip project. In this, we were tasked to plan a road trip from New-York to a destination of our choosing. We had to use the math skills that we had learned to plan out the cost of everything from accommodation, gas prices, the route and time that it would take to get to and from the destination, and even food cost. I really liked the idea of being able to plan out your own dream trip, so this project was very appealing to me. The one place that I feel could’ve used some improvement was when I was planning out the route for my trip. The destination I chose was quite far from the starting point and there were too many stops for me write in, so the data got very messy and a bit confusing at times. This was something that I could’ve payed more attention towards fixing, but I put my focus on other things and let it slip. 

Meanwhile in humanities class, we were working on a comic for our World War One unit. This meant that we would have to pick a topic from the ones that we had learned about to do with WW1, and crate an informative comic on that certain event or group of people. I did mine on the changing role of woman in the First World War, and was quite proud of my final product. Other than a few times when I didn’t divide up my work properly and made the process a bit more pressured and stressful, I was happy with how everything turned out and will benefit from the knowledge that I gained when doing this project.

 

The last class to touch bases in is maker. I really connected with our most recent blue sky project where me and Jessie created a website for perspective dog owners. This project not only had me go out and interview a stranger, which for me was quite a challenge, but it let me work on a subject that I am very interested in. I loved doing the research on all of the different types of dogs and creating the survey to show you which dog would be perfect for you. This project really showed me that taking care of a dog, especially a puppy, is not as easy as it sounds, and there are many factors to take into consideration before hand. Although I was very happy with the work I produced for this project, there’s always room for improvement, and I definitely could’ve added more when it came to the display aspect of our project.

All of these projects from all of my classes stand as pieces of evidence that show that I am ready for next year and all the challenges that will come with it. Throughout the year, I have acquired the skills to be able to see my mistakes and use them to make and execute a plan and overcome them, and with this knowledge, I will be able to make improvements for next year.

Cloning new life

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Our most recent project in science was a project where we got the chance to clone Dandelions using asexual reproduction. Asexual reproduction is when a plant reproduces without a partner, using a process called Mitosis. Mitosis is when a cell divides, producing two clones of itself and repeating this process over and over until life is formed, which is what happened when we cloned our dandelions. But don’t let this be confused with Meiosis, which is similar, but instead of making clones of itself, each time the cells split they create cells that contain DNA from both the parents and each cell is unique. Asexual reproduction can be beneficial in that it only requires one parent and creates plants that are exactly the same, but there are some downsides. If the parent plant has any weaknesses or mutations, the clones will also possess those bad qualities. Also, if the parent plant can be easily killed by a certain illness or disease, then killing off all of the clones wouldn’t prove to be that difficult. That’s where sexual reproduction comes into play. Sexual reproduction requires two parents which makes it more difficult, but each offspring is unique and contains DNA from both parents. 

When cloning our own dandelions, the first step was to plan out a list of materials that we would use. When doings this experiment, we needed soil, one solo cup, some sort of digging tool, scissors, and water. To begin our experiment, we went outside and dug up a dandelion with the roots intact. We took the roots and cut them into five different stocks, each having been cut slanted at the bottom. The reason why we make a slanted cut on the bottom of the piece of root is to help us remember which side should be at the top when we plant the roots. We took out root fragments, poked holes in the bottom of a solo cup, fill it with soil, and plant the roots in the soil. We had five clones in total, and only two of them ended up sprouting. We watered them everyday, giving the ten to fifteen squirts of water depending on how dry the soil was. Although only two of our dandelions sprouted, it’s still pretty amazing that we were able to successfully clone a plant that had the exact same DNA and its parent

 


Dandelions weren’t the only plant that we cloned using asexual reproduction, we also cloned blackberries with that same process. We started with two blackberry plants, but only one of them survived. I’m not quite sure why, but it might have possibly had something to die with other the temperature in the grow box, or maybe it was a problem with how much water was given to the plant. Whatever it was, we were still lucky to have one of them survive and show significant growth. In my opinion, it was another successful experiment.

 

 

All in all, I think that this project was a great learning experience, and taught me some very useful knowledge. The picture above shows a mind map of all the key topics that I learned in this unit.

 

The First World War

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In these last few months, our humanities class has been focused on the topic of the First World War. Our driving question was “How did WW1 impact Canada’s identity?”. The first assignment of our WW1 unit was to read one of three books that were assigned to us over spring break. The three books consisted or War Horse, Private Peaceful, and Generals Die In Bed. Out of all three of these books, the one that seemed the most interesting to me was Generals Die In Bed. This book was about a soldier named Charles and his experiences in the first world war and all the challenges he faced. Reading this book was our first introduction to the First World War, before we did this, we had to learn the reason the war started in the first place. It all started with the assassination of someone called Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie who was. He was the Archduke of Austria and he was shot by a Serbian member of a terrorist group called the black hand. Although there were many other reasons for the war break out, this tragic event triggered the beginning of the First World War.

We learned about many events and battles that occurred in World War One on our trip to Ottawa, which I also wrote a post about earlier. Click here to check it out! This trip war run by Encounters With Canada, and was a way to not only teach us about The First World War, but to give us a chance to meet friends from all over our beautiful country of Canada. It was a unique experience that I will never forget, and gave me a chance to learn in depth about one of my favourite battles of WW1, the Battle of Vimy Ridge. This was the battle where we as Canadians got a name for ourself, and it brought Canada closer together as a country as well.

There were many topics to do with WW1 that we learned about, and the next task we had was to pick one and make a four page comic on it. The topic that I chose was a woman’s changing role in the First World War, but I narrowed it down to A Mother’s Changing Role In WW1. After extensive research on my topic, I put all my ideas into a simpler form to fit it into the comic. Inserting my information wasn’t the hard part, the most difficulty I had was making sure that the comic itself had good formatting and was aesthetically pleasing. My comic had gotten critiqued not only by myself, but also by my peers. Some of the feedback that I got was about little things like font and the alignment of text boxes, but other than that, my comic was looking pretty good. After editing it several times, it was finally ready to present to an audience. We took a trip to one of our local elementary schools and showed our comics to a class of sixth and seventh graders. These kids weren’t quite familiar with the topic of WW1, so it was fun to be able to answer their questions about it and share with them some information about the various events of the war.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After our visit to Cove Cliff Elementary, we took a look at a site called shattered ground. On this site, we walked through the story of a kid who was looking through pictures and diary entries from his great grandfather who fought in the war. We were taken through the many memories of his great grandfather’s experiences in the war and saw the things that he went through. We had to take notes and answer questions about each chapter.

This whole unit has taught me things that I will always remember. Weather it be the significance of each battle, Canada’s role in the war, or how the war started in the first place, the amount of learning that took place during this unit was incredibly large. I not only learned about the war and everything that happened during it, but I also obtained some new formatting skills of comic life, learned how to keep seventh graders entertained for an hour, and most importantly, I learned that Canada as a country was uniquely impacted by the war. Canada came out of the war more united then when it went in, and as for our identity, we no longer specifically identity only with our individual province, but rather one country that encompasses all Canadian provinces alike.

Polynomials and like terms project

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Our latest math project had revolved around the concept of polynomials, specifically like terms. Polynomials are equations with two or more terms that are separated by plus and minus symbols. For those of you who aren’t aware, the terms of an equation are the different sections of algebraic expression that are divided by symbols of addition or subtraction. An equation such as 13b only possess on term, therefore it is called a monomial. An equation like 13b+72c has two terms, and is therefore called a binomial. One with three terms is a trinomial, and anything with four or more terms is simply just called a polynomial.

We learned a ton about the different parts of a polynomial equation. There’s the degree which is the highest power or variable in the equation, exponents which are the amount a of times a number is multiplied by itself, and the coefficient which is the number that is used to multiply the variable. Some other words that often come up when talking about polynomials are constants, the number or numbers that is on its own, has a constant value, and does not have a variable beside it. These were just some of the things we had to learn before starting our actual project. The last thing, and possibly one of the most important things we learnt about were like terms and how to combine them. Like terms are terms in an equation that have the same type of variable and can be grouped together to simplify the equation.
Using our knowledge of like terms and polynomials we had to come up with a driving question that we would base our project around.

Me and my partner Owen, came up with a driving question of How are polynomials and like terms used in the workforce. After spending many classes researching and getting information, we narrowed it down to three jobs in particular that used these se jobs were forestry, Financing, and Engineering. We took all of the information that we found and put it into a keynote. I had spent a lot of time editing and formatting this keynote to be as close to perfection as it could possibly be. In the keynote, we talked not only about how these jobs used polynomials and like terms, but also about the math concepts themselves, some polynomial language, how to combine like terms, and why they’re important.

Overall, I think that this project was a success. It helped me to better understanding the concept of polynomials as well as like terms in a way that I could more easily remember the information. It also gave me some insight into why we learn these concepts in the first place, and where we might use them later in life. Although some small changes still need to be made in order to perfect the keynote, the project itself was a fun learning experience and was an was in my opinion successful.

The Ottawa experience

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Ottawa was a journey of a lifetime, filled with ups and downs, friends I’ll never forget, and memories that will be with me forever. This trip was organized by Encounters With Canada. Encounters is a program that provides a forum for youth around Canada from ages 14-17. It took place at a building called the Terry Fox Youth Centre. Our trip revolved around the topic of Canadians in the First World War, specifically The battle of Vimy Ridge.

Vimy Ridge was a battle that took place during the First World War in Vimy France. It is remembered by Canadians as the battle where Canada gained recognition for being the only country that was able captured the Ridge from the grasp of the opposing German forces. We learned about this battle in detail, hearing from many different veterans, historians, and museum staff.

There was quite a bit of learning that took place on this trip, but there were also a ton of other activities that took place at Encounters. Some were small fun activities like making poppies out of felt and creating cute little animations, but there were also a series of bigger more informational trips and activities that we got to partake in. The most memorable, in my opinion, was when we got to visit the Parliament Building. Not many people can say that they have had the chance to go inside of the parliament building. It was quite a site to see. The architecture on the inside is simply gorgeous, down to the finest detail.

We had the privilege of getting to take a look at the gorgeous library that remains inside of the Parliament Building. It is filled with a glow of light that falls beautifully against the orange tinted wooden bookshelves. It is these bookshelves that stand tall and hold what look to be thousands of books of all different of colours and sizes. The copious amount of big beautiful windows that line the ceilings provide the room with natural light that add to the grand artistry of the whole room.

Coming back to the topic of Encounters and all the activities it entailed, a big part of why we were made to participate in these activities was to meet new people from across Canada and potentially make life long friendships. I met a group of great people from Prince Edward Island that I will never forget, I made a close friend that lives in Tisdale Saskatchewan, and even met some pretty amazing people from Nunavut. These are the kinds of friendships that Encounters helps create.

While this experience helped me create joy in these friendships, it also brought on the pain of having to say goodbye. I never thought that I could feel this way about friends that I had only knows for seven days, but that didn’t effect the amount I cared and cherished them as people and the pain I felt when I was forced to say goodbye. Although many of these people live across the country, I strongly do believe that there will come a time where we will meet again and it’ll all be because of Encounters With Canada.


 

Insert catchy title here (DI provincials)

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DI 2018 has finally come to a close, and I’m here to share my experiences with this year’s Destination Imagination Provincial tournament.

After DI regionals had ended, my group and I had to reflect on our performance and find out what went well and what didn’t. Taking advice from the feedback we received from the appraisers, we had decided to switch around some of our team choose elements, edit our script, and build a giant rock out of paper mache to conceal the speaker that we were using for our soundtrack. We had planned out a schedule of what we would get done and when. The first thing on the list was to build the rock. The rock was built out of chicken wire and paper mache, and was finished over spring break. Next we began to build our new team choice element. This team choice element was our drums. We had decided to create drums out of PVC pipe, balloons, wooden sticks, quark, and construction paper. These drums would show our creativity and love for music. We had planned to get the materials and finish building this team choice element in the first three or four days, then spend the rest of the week editing the script and rehearsing our presentation. Almost everything went according to plan, accept rehearsing. We had devoted the whole time to building new things to add to our presentation, and didn’t actually leave enough time to practice as much as we needed to.

When it finally came time to present at DI provincials, I felt a bit underprepared. This wasn’t because we had slacked off, but rather we had put our effort into creating more, when we should’ve been focusing on improving what we already had. We should’ve taken more time to memorize the edited script and review the changes we had made in the performance. With that said, I was quite happy with the changes that we had made. I thought that the drums looked really good and were a great addition. Also, the script was a lot better after we edited it for provincials.

With all the ups and downs that DI has induced, as beneficial as it was, I’m glad that it has finally come to an end. This tournament has been a real reality check for me, showing me all the ways that I thrived, and all the aspects that I need to improve for next year.

“My Destination is Imagination”

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Every year, PLP students participate in a little thing called destination imagination. If you haven’t heard about destination imagination before, or haven’t read about it in an earlier post of mine, destination imagination is an annual project tournament with all kinds of different challenges to choose from. The challenge that I chose was the scientific challenge. It was called Unlikely location. In this challenge, we were tasked with creating an amusement park attraction that would be located in a place that wouldn’t normally feature a park attraction. I was put into a group with Melika, Marshall, Daniel, Luca, and Adlih. Together, we brainstormed ideas for the story, attraction, as well as where our Unlikely location would reside. After spending a few classes narrowing down all of our ideas, we all came to a consensus that the location would take place on a dream planet called Phoebe. We also had to introduce three scientific concepts that we would use during our performance.

We came up with a storyline to feature our location and attraction, and it starts off with a kid named Richard sitting in classroom while the teacher talks about electricity and how they would have a test later that class. Richard ends up falling asleep in class, and awakes on the beautiful planet of phoebe. He then meets all of its inhabitants, and they show him around. Richard, being the edgy kid that he is, spots a big park attraction because of its shocking resemblance to a fidget spinner. He asks to ride the attraction, but is told that he must take a test before he is able to take a turn on the attraction. After this, everybody ends up moving off stage, and a character named Millard appears. He states to the audience that he is looking for a box of magic that fuels the dream land, so that he can use it to put to his own use and create a land of nightmares. Whilst Millard hunts for the box of magic, he is met by one of the inhabitants named Remmy, who ran into Millard while searching for Roka, who’s is another inhabitant of Phoebe.


Remmy is shocked when she sees Millard, because usually they know about anyone new that enters the dreamland. Roka and Richard arrive and demonstrate the same confusion when they see Millard. They end up dismissing their concern, and show Millard around the park as if he was just another visitor like Richard. Meanwhile, Richard and Roka stay behind to begin the test. Roka tests Richard with questions about things like Newton’s laws of motion, electricity, and gravity. These were the three scientific concepts that we chose to talk about.

Richard finishes the test and is ready to ride the fidget spinner attraction, when Rocco, another inhabitant of phoebe, interrupts them to inform them that Millard had taken all the magic from the dreamland and must be stopped. Everybody goes to search for Millard, but Richard stays behind to watch over the attraction. Millard shows up, claiming that he was putting the magic back, but Richard isn’t convinced. Millard explains that when he came to the the dreamland, there was another kid there that soaked up all the attention of the people, and he was never acknowledged. He claimed that the inhabitants wanted him to leave, and he felt shunned and unwanted. He explained that instead of leaving, he rewound the time and had a plan to do it all over again, but this time he would steal the magic. He expressed his apologies and promised never to do it again. Richard makes a compromise and let’s Millard ride the fidget spinner if he agrees to give back the magic. As Millard rides the attraction, all the inhabitants return and advise Richard to stay away from evil Millard, but then end up accepting him once Richard explains his situation. Richard finally gets to ride the attraction, when he wakes up from his dream. His teacher explains that he fell asleep and his test in now in front of him. The story ends with Richard completing the test and getting all the questions correct on his electricity test.

We had created and edited a script for this story, which was mainly done by Adlih. Also, we had a full sized, working fidget spinner attraction that would actually spin, and could fit one person. The attraction was built by Luca, Daniel, and Marshall. Me and Melika worked on the two huge backdrops, finished the data forms, bought and created all of our props, helped write and revise the script, and organized who would do what and when. The last thing we needed was the music. Luca made a soundtrack that would later be used as our team choice element. A team choice element was something that we added that showed our unique skills and creativity. We needed two team choice elements, one being the homemade soundtrack, and the other being our masks that we created and soldered lights onto. We practiced our performance quite a few times, memorizing our lines and perfecting the little things that needed fixing, and we were finally at a point where we could present.

 

It finally came down to the day of the tournament and I was really nervous, but I didn’t let that stop me from giving it my all. When it was our tern to present our challenge, everything thing seemed to go smoothly. That was until we were told that our homemade soundtrack couldn’t be our team choice element because the music itself was considered part of the requirements, so the points couldn’t be counted for the second team choice element. Even with this setback, we kept going and just accepted that what’s done is done and it’s just something we need to focus on improving for next time. We kept going with our presentation, and soon figured out that something was wrong with the connection of the speaker and it caused the music to cut in and out, which sounded quite bad after a while, so I ended up just turning it of completely. That was a major problem that we plan on fixing by ether using a different speaker, or just not using a speaker at all, because the music is pretty loud just playing from the iPad. Anyway, we had kept going according to plan and had finished with confidence. Other then those few setbacks, nothing overly disastrous had happened. We ended up getting third place in our category, which wasn’t too bad, but there could definitely be some significant improvement before provincials rolls around. We have already started to plan out how these improvements will be made. We have planned to completely create a new and improved team choice element. This team choice element will be a homemade bongo drum that the magic from the story will be stored in. We are also going to create a holder for the speaker/device that the music will play from, and this speaker holder will be shaped like a tree and will hide the speaker from the view of the audience. Other than some minor tweaking of things that we already have, this is what we plan to complete before the provincial D.I. Tournament.

Destination Imagination has been a great opportunity for me to work on my skills with time management, because without it, our project wouldn’t have come together at all. The main thing that I wish I would’ve improved upon was my ability to better memorize my lines. Other than the few minor setbacks that me and my team members faced, I honestly feel that the work that we produced turned out pretty well, and it was something that I was relatively proud of.

Chemistry, a new way of bonding

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In our science class, we have currently began working on a chemistry animation video. This video had to be over three minutes, creative and personalized, and had to feature both covalent and ionic bonding. A covalent bond is when two non-metals share electrons in order to become stable, and an ionic bond is when an atom gives one or more of its electrons to another atom with the opposite charge. We had to demonstrate the steps of these bonds in our animation. Me and my partner Alivia decided to split up the work so that she would mostly work one writing the script and editing the video, and I would focus more on creating the animation itself. We started this project off by brainstorming ideas of what the story of our video could be.

After brainstorming all of our ideas and coming up with a storyline and plot, I started to think about how I wanted to approach the animation and wether that approach be stop motion, live action, drawing, etc. I ended up going with drawing because I felt that it would show more creativity and would look better that if I were to do anything else. I used an app called explain everything, drew out all of my characters and setting, and moved my characters around using different settings on this app. It took much longer than I thought to complete, but I was very proud of my end product.

Once I had completed the animation, it was just a matter of editing the clips, putting them together, and adding audio. Once we completed that, our video was finally done and ready to be presented to our peers. Underneath a copy of our finished chemistry animation.

This project has been vital to my learning of chemical bonding, atoms, and elements alike. It has shown me my strengths when it come to artists ability, and has helped me grow in the area of better managing my time. All the things I have learned not only from this project, but from this whole unit have been displayed on a mind map of my creation, marking the growth in learning from the start of the term, where I also created a mind map of everything I knew about chemistry. There was an obvious increase in the amount of knowledge I possessed on the subject that can be seen by looking at the two mind maps side by side. Underneath is a copy of both the mind maps.