What aspects of this course did you enjoy the most? Why?
I enjoyed the Labs and Kahoots that we did in this course. I enjoyed them because they were stress relieving and when we used to play, we would smile and laugh.
What aspects of the course did you not enjoy? Why?
I did not enjoy the tests and quizzes because they were too stressful.
Were there any topics or activities that you are interested in that were not covered in this course? If yes, explain.
None-
What skills did you improve on during this course? e.g. studying, time management, microscopes, labwork, critical thinking, etc.
Lab work because before I used to procrastinate and would not hand in my best work.
Do you have any recommendations for how this course was taught?
More kahoots?
If you had the chance to do this course again, is there anything you would do differently?
I would manage my time more wisely and focus more on studying.
Which Science courses are you taking next year?
Chem 12, Bio 12 and Physics 11
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SOCIAL STUDIES CORE COMPETENCY REFLECTION – PERSONAL AWARENESS AND REPSONSIBILITY
I appreciate feedback on my projects and prefer it comes in the form of constructive criticism rather than an insult on my work. I like constructive criticism because it motivates me to improve and gives me clear direction on what to fix or build on. This connects to my image of the Bockscar bomber, which I created as part of a Social Studies project. Changing this 3D model to spec required precision and historical accuracy, and I received feedback throughout the process. When the feedback was constructive, I felt motivated to revise and improve the model to better reflect the actual aircraft. It helped me grow both in my design skills and in my understanding of the historical context. Insults, on the other hand, made me feel discouraged and less willing to continue. This experience showed me how important thoughtful feedback is to my learning and growth.
I was able to identify life challenges by cross checking my budget with each expense to see how much I had left over. If I was going over the budget, I tried finding cheaper alternatives. For example, my mortgage payments were making a huge impact in my budget. By finding a cheaper home and an institution with lower mortgage rates, I was able to reduce my payments. For things such as groceries, I tried finding products that were made in Canada to avoid the price increase from the tariffs. I also tried avoiding name brands for basic things such as salt and pepper.
Core Competency Reflection
I recognize different points of view and can disagree respectfully. I chose this statement because when I ask for peer feedback and the person reviewing my work and I are not on the same terms, I explain to them why I chose or wrote that point and what my thought process was for it. This creates a form of mutual understanding between us and creates a respectful denial to their opinion.
I consider more than one way to proceed in an investigation. I chose this statement because when I am investigating or researching something, I try to find multiple sources that support my theory or project. I do this find the best source that improves my project and makes it stand out among others. This form of investigation allows me to expand my database and also add more information to my presentation.
I can understand and share information about a topic of interest in a clear, organized way. I chose this statement as when I share information, it is concise. For example, my PowerPoint for this project. It conveyed all the important information in a clear way that helped the class understand my budget and what my thinking was behind it. If I don’t present in a clear way, the information is not reaching out to the targeted audience and that makes my work useless.
Goal:
I can advocate for myself. I chose this goal because sometimes, I get scared to speak up for myself and I just go along with what is happening. In other words, I let those people think for me and they don’t allow me to have my input. I will hopefully achieve this goal by speaking up for myself when I am right and not let other people’s thoughts influence my thoughts and feelings.
One of the ways I ensure that my group is clear on the common purpose is by telling them the activity/project we are doing and making sure that they understand the purpose. I demonstrated that skill in the activity in the image above by briefing my group members and went over the plan for the activity. If we had any questions, we asked the teacher to clear our doubts. During the activity, we encountered some problems such as going off-track during our task, and forgetting the words needed. We took a few breaks to get back on track and completed the activity. We also checked in with our peers to make sure we were doing everything right.
Titration is a technique used to find the amount of an aqueous solution required to have a complete reaction with another aqueous solution. In this lab, titration was used to find the milliliters of NaOH (Sodium Hydroxide) required to neutralize HCl (Hydrochloric acid). Phenolphthalein was used as an indicator to tell us when we were nearing the endpoint of the titration. The endpoint of a titration is the point where the reaction is complete and adding more of the reactant will make the pH indicator change color. The endpoint of this titration was when the indicator (phenolphthalein) turned light pink and was taking time to turn clear. The purpose of this lab was to find the molarity of the hydrochloric acid. The molarity was calculated to be 0.134M ± 1.1%.
CommunicationCC: During this lab, me and my partner Deven, communicated with each other and distributed our work load evenly to execute the lab efficiently. We communicated with other groups to compare and contrasts our results and asked each other questions if we had any. For next time, we would pre-plan the strategy for the lab to make the lab more efficient and the work load on us lighter. We would also practice our technique more next time to make the lab work more accurate.
#ThinkingCC: When we started our project, we didn’t know what task our machine would perform. We spent one whole block brainstorming ideas and tried out various designs. My team members and I looked at other people’s ideas and asked them about how they came up with their idea. We also then looked up existing projects made by other people on the web and took some inspiration. At first our task was knocking a container or object into the recycling bin. We didn’t do that because our project was at a different level than the bin. We later came up with the idea of raising a flag as the flag “hoist” was already incorporated into our project by the ring stands and weight pulley system. We modified our project and it has several transfers along with multiple transformations. For the next time we do this, I would like to think of a plan and task beforehand so we don’t have to waste time on brainstorming ideas.
#CommunicationCC: My team members and I had many communications on the project as we couldn’t come to conclusion for the final design. We talked about the pros and cons about our designs and what transfers and transformations it would have. In the end we combined all of our designs and we came to a conclusion in which our design had the most efficient transfers without the loss of energy and also multiple transformations and also looked fun. ——————————————————————————————————————- I got many skills and also improved many skills. One skill I got in the duration of this project was determining common purposes. As I mentioned in my ThinkingCC, we had a hard time coming up with a common design so we brainstormed and came up with a final design. A skill I improved on was communication. I communicated with my group members to share our ideas and improve our design
Is violence justified during a revolution or protest?
A) How did the use of AI assist you in developing this project AI helped me find sources and valid data sets of information. It also helped me correct any mistakes I may have made while writing my paragraphs and rebuttals.
B) How did you ensure that the work you created was still your own, rather than just a product of the AI. I understood what AI had to say for the information i provided it with and then I summarized it and wrote my response based on what I read.
C) Did you agree with the position you had to argue? Why or why not? Yes, I agree with the position I had. I agree with it because violence is never the answer and it can’t solve things and leave a positive impact at the same time. Most of the time, violence has killed innocent people such as the Israel-Hamas war or the French Revolution.
Core Competency Reflection
Examples of where I communicate clearly and purposefully can be seen when i communicated with my partner to find resources and ways from where we can get more information and improve our data to have more accurate and good information.
When I need to work collaboratively with people I don’t know well, I start a conversation and eventually lead up to the project and ask them questions about it. This helps me and them not feel awkward and weird when we ask each other questions.
In this picture, we launched our ball and it landed in the cup. Our measurement in this picture was 305 cm.
Curricular Response
When we built our Ball Launcher, we explored the scientific method. We learnt how to use the scientific method in daily life where we identified problems, tried to create a solution and tried to use that solution to solve that problem. In our ball launcher challenge, we used inductive learning to find out what angle we needed to use first to get our first testing result (we used our previous knowledge of gravity and aerodynamics to get our angle knowing that if we aim it at a very high angle, the ball will stall mid-air and fall to the ground losing all of it’s velocity. If we aim the ball very low, the ball will get a negative vertical velocity and still go down. We used deductive learning to get a better angle after our first test to get a better aim and angle.
Core Competency Self Assessment and Creative Thinking
· It’s important to celebrate our accomplishments. Which SCIENTIFIC METHOD LAB are you the most proud of and why? I am most proud of my ball launcher lab as it was our most successful lab yet. We explored parts of physics and building while making the launcher. Our team achieved a length of 305 cm and we ranked 4th in the class for the longest launch distance
· What strategies did you use to overcome those challenges? Describe in detail. We faced many challenges in our lab such as our rubber band breaking or our cup splitting. Our group was resourceful so we fixed our device with the available resources. Our initial launch distance was near 300 cm but after fixing our device with the available resources, we increased our launch distance by 5 cm.
· Describe your experience with understanding of the Scientific Method doing the lab?
We explored how to make a hypothesis and how to test our hypothesis. We needed to make a control experiment to test if our hypothesis worked according to what we thought. We tested our design and it failed the first test. We used deductive learning to fix that and made our device better.
· Tell me how you did the following:
A) I demonstrated that I can create new things when I work in a group. My weakness sometimes is working alone. When I collaborate with the people in my team, I share my knowledge and also learn from other people’s ideas and build on it.
B) I demonstrated that I can build on the ideas of others when our group was making our sample draft. We all had different ideas but one point was the same in each of our ideas. The point was the launcher mechanism with a cup and rubber bands. We all contributed what we thought would be the best and combined them to get one amazing design
C) When trying new things, I expect setbacks and failure and use them to develop my ideas. An example of this from the Scientific Method labs would be when our ball launcher started to fall apart by splitting down the middle. We fixed it by making the pencils not move any further which was making the cup split. We finally fixed it and made our launcher work again.
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Personal/Social Competency Reflection
Some of my preferred strategies for maintaining a healthy, balanced online presence include not posting a lot and only posting when I need to. This can help me stay in the offline world more instead of the online world. If i post too much online, my personal life can be invaded and not stay private.
Some of the ways I work to build and maintain online relationships are not commenting mean things on posts as they can affect the person’s life and my relationship with that person.
I make digital ethical choices such thinking before I post in order to make sure that the post doesn’t affect someone or will make someone make bad choices because of that post.
