In scimatics for the past week my class has been writing a book about tectonic plates to read to a grade 4/5 class. We were supposed to write a story that had 10 key concepts about tectonic plates and earthquakes. We read text book pages to find things to put in our book to make it interesting for kids but also have the grade 4/5’s learn something while they were reading the book. This was a really fun project because I got to learn something while making up a fun story, personally I don’t really like writing I never have but I love coming up with stories and thinking of things that could never Happen in the real word.At the start of this project I did not know much and I created a mind map of what I knew at the time and now I know a lot more about the layers of earth and tectonic pates.

In this project I think I focused on what needed to be done and the big idea of it. When I was writing in the book I focused on the storyline then I put in all of the facts about tectonic plates and what comes with them. Before I started to write the book I was supposed to write a small story board and a mind map of what would go into the book in the story board I drew what the general idea of what the drawings would look like in the book then I wrote down the story line and were all type key concepts would be in my writing. Then for the mind map the class brainstormed ideas of types of books like fiction, nonfiction, fantasy, horror etc. Then after I decided what I wanted (a fiction, fantasy, picture book) I started to write and got all the concepts I needed in the book. I am glad I did all the drafts before because normally in a project I will just go right into the final draft right away. By doin all the work before the final draft looked nice and neat with all the info and stuff I learned.

This topic is a really interesting topic but it is not something that I would choose to study or work on in my free time so that is one reason why I was not very enthusiastic about it but I do love making stories so that made the project a lot more fun and some people came up with some really interesting books and I loved reading my friends but next time I do a scimatics project I really want to engage more in the topic and try put even more work and effort into the project. And each time I do another project I think I am getting better at engaging and asking more questions about the work and if I do not understand I read more into the rubric or instruction sheet.