Hello fellow inhabitant of the universe and welcome or welcome back to my blog. Today I am going to be talking about the last scimatics project of grade 8, comic cells.

The goal of this project was to make a comic about a virus/bacteria of our choice. There were 5 key milestones for this project.
milestone 1: project start mind map

As always we were asked to create a project start mind map. I think that I definitely could have done a much better job on this. I normally have a lot to put on these, but this time I really didn’t have much on the subject. I also didn’t turn it in on time.

milestone 2: disease wanted poster

For this milestone, I think that I did a good job. I turned it in almost on time, because I forgot to turn it in on time. For this milestone, we had to create a wanted poster for our disease. We had to put information such as when it was discovered, where it is most common, , how it effects the human body and cells,  the symptoms and more.

milestone 3: Khan cells test

This was basically just a series of tests to make sure we knew about the topics. We had to get 65% (i think that’s what it was) or over to complete the milestone.

milestone 4: storyboard

This was the base of our final comics. We had to plan out our entire comic, including what the characters would say. I did not complete this on time, and then I decided to completely change my story. I definitely could have turned this in earlier, I just completely lacked the motivation to complete it on time.

milestone 5: comic book

the final milestone. We had to make our final comic using an app called comic life. Comic life essentially allows you to make a comic. The problem is that you have to draw your images in another app and them import them into the app. I did not complete this on time, and I truly didn’t think that I would be able to finish it for Tuesday (I am writing this on a wednesday).

And now we must discuss the forbidden topic. No you cant tell anyone. If you do I’ll hunt you down and chop off your hands. Yes this is a threat. We do not speak of the core competencies out of blog posts.

Sorry those were the homework demons. Just ignore them.

“Hey im not a Demon”

”yes you are. Now get out of my blog post”

“fineeeee”

sorry about that. Anyways back to the core competencies. They are: questioning and predicting, scientific communication (thats what the document said), and Evaluating.

Questioning and predicting: Demonstrate a sustained curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal interest. All class time is used for learning and creating a comic book story about cellular processes and/or diseases. For this competency I was in between developing and proficient. I think that I really deserved emerging. I did not use my time well at all, and I only really started my comic two days before was due, and didn’t finish it until it was 4 days late. I did end up turning it in though.

Scientific communication: communicate ideas, findings, and solutions to problems using scientific language, representations, and digital technologies
Correct vocabulary and accurate diagrams are used. At least 10 interesting science vocabulary words are included in the story. For this competency I was proficient. I think that I really deserved in between emerging/developing and proficient. I dont think that I used that much scientific language, and I dint think that my diagrams were very accurate.

Evaluating: Demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of evidence
Cell/bacteria/virus characters interact in a scientific way. Symptoms and logical outcomes of the chosen disease/cellular/ body process are integrated into The story. For this competency I was proficient. I think that I really deserved in between emerging/developing and proficient. I dont know how scientific the characters really acted, because there wasnt much dialogue. There wasn’t much of a story to my comic, though it did include all of the symptoms and other information.

That is all for now
thanks for reading!
bye

“and dont forget to not speak of the core competencies or ill chop off your hands!”

“Dude i told you to get out of my blog post”

“No”