Some of the things I do to stay mentally and physically healthy include: playing soccer, walking home and spending time outside.
I can prevent some school-related stress by making sure that I keep up with or get ahead for my school work. If I am prepared, in my eyes there is no reason for me to be stressed.
When I need to boost my mood or re-focus, I walk around the area I’m working at, focus on breathing, pray or listen to some music.
When I make mistakes, I don’t beat myself up. Instead I try and figure out what I did wrong, then make an effort to get better at that in my classes/when I do the thing I messed up on again.
For my face I used many ellipses, hyperbolae and a couple circles. I also found a way to make the edges of an ellipse “sharp” (increase the degree of the y or x), to make the two teeth. I also stretched my face, which made me look a bit different. I left some of the lines different colours so you can see where the graphs were to show my thought process in how to build the graphs.
I conducted an experiment on rice sprouting/germination in a high CO2 environment. This required that I communicate effectively in my my lab report, which shows how I did the following prompt:
I can understand and share information about a topic of interest in a clear, organized way.
In this project me and my partner had to communicate on how we would complete the experiment as well as the principals behind our procedures and why they worked/were necessary. We had to be very clear as to what it was that the procedure was, because a good lab needs to be repeatable to confirm the results.
Profile 3 – I can ask questions and consider options. I can use my observations, experience, and imagination to draw conclusions and make judgments. I can ask open-ended questions, explore, and gather information. I experiment purposefully to develop options. I can contribute to and use criteria. I use observation, experience, and imagination to draw conclusions, make judgments, and ask new questions. I can describe my thinking and how it is changing. I can establish goals individually and with others. I can connect my learning with my experiences, efforts, and goals. I give and receive constructive feedback.
I think that this shows my level of critical thinking well. I have shown that I can describe my thinking during our discussion postings. I have responded to other’s postings, which necessitates that I explain my thinking clearly in ways that other people understand.
I especially demonstrated critical thinking during the logarithms test by thinking about logarithms in different ways. (I applied my prior knowledge of exponents to this new function to help understand logs). I also had to use my knowledge of previous word problems to help me solve word problems in each of the new units, as it’s much easier if you apply prior skills and strategies to do something, than just doing it for the first time.
I think a major part of critical thinking being able to break down problems and identify the different parts so that you can address part well. This is effective as small problems are easier to solve than large ones.
I applied strategies that I used from other word problems to find an equation I could use to find the side lengths
Something for me to work on would be my personal responsibility. I do not have consistent or very good study habits. I also tend to procrastinate on things sometimes. I am acutely aware of these problems I have directly after I have done them, but that I forget about (and forget how much I dislike doing them) while I am doing them and trying to do homework. It not only can impact my grades and learning, but it can eat away at time spent on productive and meaningful endeavors. I have to find ways to break this problem down into little bits using my self-proclaimed critical thinking.
My comparison essay discussing the differences and similarities between Charlie and Ray was a good example of how my thinking and ability to support my thinking increased throughout the semester
Critical and Reflective Thinking:I can analyze evidence to make judgements.
I have demonstrated the “Thinking” competency in this artifact when I had to compare and contrast the characters, Charlie and Ray, from the two different stories. To do this I considered the evidence. What did they say to different people and about different issues. How did they act towards different people. How did they change throughout their respective stories and why did that change happen. By asking these questions I was able to figure out how Charlie and Ray were similar and how they were different.
During the lab me and Brandon displayed the communication core competency. We displayed the communication by delegating tasks to each other so that we both knew what we had to do for the lab to be completed. We also communicated after the lab to spread out the cleaning duties and to make sure that we both had all of the data for all of the boxes in the table.
I used the Thinking Competency, and more specifically the critical and reflective thinking part of this competency during and after our Cell Membrane diffusion lab.
During the lab I made a hypothesis about which molecules would diffuse. To make a good educated guess I had to critically think about which molecules in the solutions were big and not likely to fit through the microscopic holes in the semi-permeable membrane.
After the lab I had to think reflectively to make my conclusion. I reflected on what could have been done better in the lab, any changes we could make in the lab and anything that could make the lab more effective in helping me understand different mathematical applications to the principals of diffusion in the lab. I also thought critically to provide and explain the points that supported and did not support the hypotheses that I made.
Our criminal justice system should be more punitive. I think that it should especially make people do more community service. People commit crimes maybe because they don’t have enough money or don’t have another option available to them. If you make punishments for crimes larger, then you would discourage people from doing crimes and make people more thoughtful and careful when they’re living.
Rehabilitation is also important though and if you don’t give people skills for life, then they have a higher chance of committing a crime because they know how to do it, and increasing the punishment would be in vain.
I can analyze evidence to make judgements – In this assignment, I looked at the pros and cons of making our criminal justice system more punitive or rehabilitative. I was able to make a judgement on which we needed to do.
During our titration lab I demonstrated the core competency: communication. In the lab I collaborated with my partner. We set up different parts of the lab and each washed out one of the measuring devices (pipette and buret). We also took turns filling the pipette and adding drops of the NaOH into the Erlenmeyer Flask. During the lab we also collaborated to calculate a few things like how much NaOH we used and at what volume of NaOH should we add drops and half-drops, instead of pouring the NaOH fast. We also collaborated on cleaning up.
The final thing we collaborated on was the post-lab questions. We checked with each other to make sure that we were doing them correctly.
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