Social Studies 11 Core Competency Self-Assignment

Communication

The core competency I chose to use is communication, most of the assignments we have are through partner work where I communicate with another one of my peers on the topic given. The cultural traits assignment I worked on with Lance had a lot of communication between us where we would talk about our ideas and would set in stone what we wanted to put down as our final answer. We were able to research together and finish the assignment with minimal disputes on anything. We showed evidence with photos for the elements of culture and added explanations that showed how it represents Canadian culture.

Inductive and Deductive Exploration: Is Water Wet?

Questioning and Investigating: Critical and Reflective Thinkning

My conjuncture:

No, due to my opinions water is not wet

Supporting reasons:

Wetness is the ability of a solid having a liquid attach to it. (deductive)

You would have to put an object into water to determine if it’s really wet, you can’t put water inside more water and determine that it’s wet. (deductive)

Counter point:

If you think about it, ice is a product of water and ice is a solid so maybe? You can consider that wet.

Conclusion:

This topic is very controversial due to certain points given from both points of view, while others may believe water isn’t wet as well there are others who beg to differ and they have their own points to prove their view.

Core Competency Self-Assessment

Collaboration

During my Chromatography lab I demonstrated collaboration by working with a partner, despite the few disagreements we came across during this lab we both talked each and every argument out coming to a final decision with measurements and calculations. My partner and I both took responsibility of different jobs during this lab whether it was measuring the solvent to the solute travel distance or setting up the papers for our lab. Through our mistakes during this lab we managed to finish the assignment in time. We would help each other out when and if the other was confused over a question so we could assure our lab was done properly,