Tag: #ThinkingCC

Core Competency Self-Assessment

Communication CC

During the fetal pig dissection, I collaborated with my lab partner and peers to successfully identify all of the structures in the pig. During setup, I would get the pig and prep it for dissection, and my partner would get all the dissection materials we needed to get started as soon as we could. When it came to the dissection part, we would take turns with using the scalpel and make sure to remind each other to cut away from themselves. In this way, we both stayed safe and got a lot out of this learning experience. When identifying structures, we started with the more obvious anatomy, and then set out to find more difficult structures. With a combination of the fetal pig diagram and instruction sheet, we could find many of the structures ourselves. In some cases, we collaborated with different groups to understand other structures that we may not have found by ourselves. By bouncing ideas around, it made it easier to make more educated guesses and combine our background knowledges. When it came to cleanup on every lab day, my partner and I allocated roles to get the job done quicker. I was always in charge of wrapping the pig and wiping down the table, while my partner cleaned up the equipment with soapy water. By collaborating and sharing ideas, my group was able to identify all the structures on our list over those 4 days.

Thinking CC

I used my critical and reflective thinking to transform what I saw in the demo into my own specimen. Though each pig was different, I used the demonstration as a guideline and altered the procedure to my own pig, since it was smaller than the demo pig used. Using my knowledge of previous structures identified, I could use that knowledge to identify structures more complicated but related to the original structures I know about. Whenever I got labels wrong, I listened to the feedback and reflected on the problem. Then, I would rethink and adapt my thinking to draw new, more educated conclusions. Learning by my mistakes through trial and error, I was able to identify more structures and gain valuable knowledge from this experience. Now, when I learn more about the structures that I identified, I am able to have a visual image from what I learned and better understand its location in respect to other anatomy in the body.

Core Competency Self-Assessment

Artifact

Critical/Reflective Thinking

During lab 20G, I created a primary standard solution of oxalic acid that was 0.0500M with 250.0mL. Using this, I titrated this with NaOH of unknown concentration. Finding the amount of NaOH needed to make the phenolphthalein turn light pink in solution with the oxalic acid, we could calculate the concentration of the NaOH. Our first trial, we overshot the titration and the solution turned into a too dark pink, but from this trial we were able to learn about when we should expect colour change for our next trials. Using our newfound information, I was able to reflect on my thinking and be more careful for our next trial. This trial, we found that our solution turned pink too fast because the excess base that was on the edges of the erelynmeyer suddenly turned our solution too basic. I analyzed our problems, and for the next two trials, made sure to rinse the sides of the flask with water periodically. Using the insight we gained from our first few trials, we could change our thinking and managed to get two light pink titations that agreed within 0.1mL of each other.

Core Competancy Self-Reflection

Artifact

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/w9glqzyzy6

Using methods shown in class, I was able to use my knowledge of exponential, parabolic, linear, and sine/cosine functions to create a self portrait in desmos using graphs alone. Through trial and error and changing a,b,c, and d values, I could transform the graphs to how I would like, using restrictions to further manipulate the function. Each feature of my self portrait was created though critical thinking, finding out new ways to manipulate graphs as well as challenging myself to use functions I wasn’t as comfortable with. Overall, being able to reflect and create a final project with my knowledge gathered in Pre-Calculus 12 was a learning experience, and I’m glad I got to show my learning through this project.

Natural Selection Critical Thinking Self-Assessment

Feeding Frenzy- Using different tools to scoop puffy wheat

I demonstrated that I can connect evidence I collected to big ideas when I wrote my lap report. This lab was meant to demonstrate how different feeding adaptions are more beneficial in certain enviornments using different food sources like puffy wheat, spaghetti, sugar, and rice. Some people received forks, knives, spoons, chopsticks, or even broken versions to simulate the variety of feeding adaptions there are in nature. Just like in nature, certain feeding adaptions did better in certain enviornments as they could effectively get to the food fastest and easiest. These big ideas we learned in class like natural selection, genetic variation, and evolution were shown in this lab.

Core Competency Self assessment

This drawing is a part of my project for “Five Feet Apart”

Thinking

When I was making my project for novel study, I decided to pick 4 scenes from the book, “Five Feet Apart” and draw and explain a few important scenes in the book. The picture above is a picture of flowering lungs, heavily inspired by the front cover of the book. I built onto their design by adding a few different types of flowers/leaves, and opted for more natural colours rather than the overwhelming blue they used on the cover. The cover was all blue with the exception of a few pink flowers, whereas I used green, brown, and purple. I wanted to represent the actual blue colour of the cover, so I added blue to the wood grain to make it look mythical like the actual cover was like. When thinking about how to draw it, I thought a lot about the actual book itself and its cover. Next time, I want to try using watercolour and different mediums to make it look different.

English 9 Final Reflection

My Artifact

My advertisement:

Curricular Competencies Reflection

During this assignment, I learned various promotional strategies that I used to promote my product. This advertisement has lots of advertisement techniques and visual elements that made the advertisement stand out. I represented the wig through a poster that had tons of colour, big numbers, quotes and more.

Core Comptetencies Reflection

I showed the thinking core competency as we thought out our advertisement lots. My group made sure to make it pop and look pleasing to the eye, but also use effective advertising strategies. Our group all gave ideas and we tried to make it work on the advertisement.

Core Competency Self-Assessment

Core competency: Thinking

While creating our catapult, we thought of different parts of our mini catapult and compared them to a real one. This helped us make the base idea for our catapult. We found that in order to make our catapult free standing, we needed to create a stronger and wider base, so the catapult wouldnt try and flip backwards when pressed on. To solve this, we used legos to create legs for the catapult to stand on. Still, while the machine was more balanced, it still wanted to flip backwards a fair amount, so we stuck a long popsicle stick at the end in hopes it would prevent it from flipping. While it did help a bit, it was a bit wobly still, so next time I would create a larger base to balance the whole thing better.