Physical Geography Core Competency Self-Assessment

Personal Awareness and Responsibility with the Curricular Competency of Evidence

An image from my project on the Democratic Republic of Congo and their need for help from the Move4Mana program

I have chosen personal awareness and responsibility as my core competency because I felt that the main focus of this project was awareness of other countries and the world. Throughout the project I used many news sources and articles to learn about the DRC as a country and how Canada has helped with the many past and present crisis’ of the DRC. Responsibility was a key piece of this project as the project’s purpose was to present the DRC to be the chosen country for this year’s Move4Mana project. Me and my partner analyzed the contributions Canada can make to help the DRC through research on what Canada has already done and what can now be contributed by the school through projects like Move4Mana. In the future getting more insight into official government policies and records would help build a better understanding on the ruling of the DRC which would further my own awareness on how the country can be helped. Another thing I believe would have helped this project is if I were able to connect my supporting evidence more often to the case of malnutrition and Move4Mana and a strong point of this project was the evidence on human experience within the DRC

Me and my partner both developed our evidence finding skills for this project as we used reliable sources to research, analyze and interpret information while keeping the information relevant to the main purpose of the project. This was achieved as for this project a range of sources was used, from videos to online articles. To keep the information relevant editing was used to ensure that the evidence was clear, concise and overall well communicated. In the future I would attempt to give more time for editing to make sure that all the information used can play a better role in connecting back to the main purpose of the project.

Physical Geography Core Competency Self-Assessment

Collaboration

During the Movement in the earth Project me and my partner Keira used collaboration skills. This project me and Keira split up work by sourcing different articles inputting them both formulating notes and then using collaboration to bring our notes together and make a script. We had a clear goal and were able to communicate clearly together to complete the assignment by the due date. Next time I believe we should work on our time management and focus when given in class time as we were able to meet the due date but just barely. For curricular competencies we used inquiry and evidence to gather information. We were able to do this as we gathered information from websites, sited them properly, edited and made sure we applied reasons to the evidence to create an effective presentation.