Brainstorm and consider what items you want to include on the poster about your Belbin Role

Things I could include in my poster:

The things I may include

Did your chosen belbin type match your classmates perception of you? Why, Why not?

For my belbin role, I thought that I was a Team Worker because of the things I do whilst working in a team. The people I talked to agreed with what I had thought I was and gave their opinion as to why they thought I was a Team Worker. Some of my classmates also thought that I was more of a Plant. They said I was creative when it comes to what we should do and making stuff. But I don't know if i'm being creative of not. So when i'm working its not something I notice.

Look at the Learning Intention - Rewrite it in your own words

Original LI: To plan and undertake an enquiry into the causes, impacts and management of natural hazards.

LI: To organize and research in depth about the causes, impacts and the control of natural hazards or natural disasters. Posing and defining problems and asking relevant questions to aid your work.

Whats questions did you identify for you title page?

Questions about the "Restless Earth"


1. What is the most common natural disaster?
2. What is the worse natural disaster?
3. Why does the earth keep changing?
4. Besides volcanoes, how else does the "Restless Earth" change?
5. Why are some natural disaster frequent in certain areas?

Movie: What does this tell you about our "Restless Planet". Why do you think it is called a "Restless Earth?"

1. It shows that our planet is constantly changing and has been changing for billions of years. Creating and destroying land, forming oceans and water. Setting the foundations for life and plants. From what started out as just a few big rocks floating in space has become a marvel with many sights to behold. 


2. I think it is called that because of the way it has continuously changed its environment. And how it is very violent at doing so. Moving and shaping itself with natural disasters. 

2. Reflect on entire project

Learning & Thinking Skills

  

• What was the key question of this topic?

What are Human Rights?

• In one paragraph write an answer to the question, thinking about what you have learned.

    During the extent of this topic i have learned lots of new things. This ranged from discussing Human Rights in class where we had to define the meaning of certain rights followed by ordering them by their importance, to listening to the real stories that real refugees have gone through. Hearing the sadness in their voice makes it hard to sit and listen to. But it was an inspiring event because those people have gone through difficult times and they still didn't give up. I learned a lot through my biography. Researching information about the things that go on inside the problem and what people are doing to stop it. 

• Why do you think this topic is important?

Because it shows how many people in this world don't have human rights or are unaware of them. Such as children who are forced to do hazardous tasks that harm or scar them. They are treated as tools rather then people and do a lot of work for little pay. Most of children who do that don't get to go to school and suffer large educational loses (E.g. Not being able to spell or read).

• Which learning opportunities did I most enjoy doing?  Why?

I enjoyed doing the biography the most even though it was the most difficult learning opportunity. This is because I got to make a story of a child who is taken by the LRA and forced to fight. Using my imagination to decide what will happen to him and applying even more creativity to draw the sketches that I did for my group and myself. I did have times where I was stumped and didn't know what to write (Sometimes I wouldn't know what to write for 1 day) but I had help from my group members who discussed what they were doing and where they were stuck at too. Making the work challenging but still enjoyable for me.

• Which learning opportunities did I least enjoy doing?  Why?

I didn't really enjoy the beginning of the topic because I was just learning about Human Rights  and it was hard to order them into a list of importance because in my opinion, all human rights are important. Just some of them are needed a bit more then others. And when we had to make a poster it was hard because it was hard to generalize Freedom. And we didn't get a lot done.

• What skills have I used? Include 3 examples of work that show these skills.

1. I included imagination in my sketches and for planning my biography.
2. I used my Enquiry skills to plan and research information for my History of Human Rights and for my research sheet. 
3. I used my Information Processing skills to locate and collect useful information in which I used in most of my work such as my History of Human Rights presentation.

• How can the learning in this topic help me in the ‘real world’?

It has changed my view of freedom and how children are treated in parts of this world. It also has shown me that there are many ways to help other people who are in trouble. Every little piece matters to them, no matter how small. And by having even the simplest human right, people are classed as more important then those who are poor and sometimes don't have the same rights we do. 

• What key idea do you think people should be aware of about this topic?

That there were many historical events throughout history that changed the course of Human Rights to shape the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that we have today. Also that there is a large number of people that don't have their human rights due to their status or because of what has happened to them. (E.g. Refugees, Child workers)

Level of knowledge & understanding - :D
Progress - :)
Enjoyment - :)

What targets could I set to help make progress in my learning?
Try to link them to your humanities learning and the key skills you want to develop.  E.g. Try to use key terms in my answers, try to ask my own questions.


1. I could ask more questions that benefit my understanding about what i'm learning about. not spending minutes thinking about a question and ending up not asking it. Instead once I know what to say, I say it.
2. I could try doing a larger amount of work for each topic. Diving deeper into information and going beyond whats written. Being more specific when categorizing and when I planning what i'm going to need or do before i write or do a piece of work. 


3. When working as a group, i should try being more open with my ideas and helping the team with their ideas. Even if they are people i don't normally talk to outside of class.

Extended Learning Project

ELP Part A

ELP Part B

It says to be sustainable and to eco-friendly so that resources won’t be wasted and will be preserved for the next generation   

This looks like an african woman. How she has a piece of tape over her mouth makes it look like she doesn’t have the right to speak.

It says to treat people as equal and not as something that doesn’t deserve you attention first. 

It shows interracial connection between different races in the world. It’s combining two different races in the shirt to symbolize anti-discrimination. 

It shows the man tearing apart a shirt that symbolizes to stop child labour. The shirt has tiny hand prints that looks like that the children made the clothes and shows child labour. 

Biography Reflection

1. Using your Success Criteria reflect upon if you have met the groups and individual goals. 

I think that I have achieved I achieved my personal S.C which was to draw sketches for my story and my teammates stories. I only have to take photos of them so I can send it to my friends. Which i will do when i get back. However i don't think that I completed my second S.C because I don't think I included my other team members. So I forgot to do that part in my diary.

When I went through the group S.Cs I think that i did most of them. I managed to do describe realistic events, to use our thinking skills to help with our research & writing, to work co-operatively as a group and to be able to research independently and come out with a set of organized notes, to put inside our final biography. I also used PEEL with some of my work, either it being the work sheet or the biography.

How can a Peer Review of Work be Helpful?

It is helpful because it allows other peers to read your work and give their opinions about it. This can sometimes be constructive criticism or positive comments. They could be finding places where things didn't make sense, analyzing the story and giving advice from improvement. 

The Things I Will Include In Akiki's Diary

I've chosen to record my work by writing a diary of Akiki's life. And I will have its in the stages i have shown below


Part 1: Life at home
This will be an overview of a normal day for him. Showing his school and friends. Talking about the conversations and interactions with other people. I've chosen to do this because i want to give the atmosphere a happy feel to it. Making everything seem perfect and just the way he likes it.


Part 2: The Hiding 
This is where i'm going to have him write down what is happening to his town and what he is doing to avoid his captors. The way he got to where he is now and the people he saw on the way there. About what he has heard and describing the how scared he is. Contemplating about whether he will live or die


Part 3: Found you!
'Found you!' will be about how he was found and captured. Finding out that his captors are the LRA (Lords Resistance Army). Describing how cruel and malicious they to him and how they forced him and the other people to join them. With the execution of many of his friends leading to the reason he agreed.


Part 4: Charge
In this part I will explain the confrontation with the opposing army. Seeing children dying and soldiers just leaving them there. Regardless of if they are fatally wounded. Complaining about the injuries he has sustained and what he was doing at the time. This will also be the point where he is thinking of trying to escape.


Part 5: Waiting for the bullet
The final part of my Akiki's diary will have him talk about what he did to escape. Explaining all the others that helped him avoid detection. However they fail and get caught just outside the camp. during the escape he gets shot in the leg and is unable to continue. Watching as his friends ran into the distance and passing out. He will wake up in a room and is then noticed and told what is going to happen to him. Finally writing the last few lines of his story explaining that he hopes the others got away and other things.