All I.Ps had a 'Past, Present, Future' focus, linking with our Looking Back to Look Forward term 2 theme.
Last week we spent much of our independent learning time preparing what we would share today. For some of us this was a slightly daunting task, as we have realised more and more that we are the ones who own our I.Ps. Although we did follow a simple generic structure, they were created by us, for us, and were to help develop our independent inquiry skills and knowledge of the research process.
Today while sharing we were required to share:
- Why we chose our I.P.
- Our big question and our smaller driving questions.
- What we did and what we learned.
- Our I.P. highlights and challenges.
We were also required to actively seek feedback from the audience about our learning and process.
Some of the highlights from today were:
- We were able to see and hear about what others have been doing. This includes our higher performing students, whose projects could be seen by others as benchmarks for how the journey may look when carried out to a great standard, allowing many of us to identify what we could do better next time.
- The majority of us were able to use what we have been learning about in our literacy groups in a new context. Some of these things included note taking, identifying key words relating to our IP topic that we could use in our research, understanding subject-specific vocabulary and creating a glossary of terms, and citing references from a range of sources in our research.
We will soon be completing I.P. self-evaluations and ensuring that our learning is evident in our digital portfolios. Remember to check out the blogs we created for these projects, which are listed on a subpage at the top of this blog.
We may undertake new I.Ps in term 4, but we will see how our other inquiries unravel.
I think it was very good getting to here what others had learned.
ReplyDeleteIt was exciting to see who came next, and it totally paid off.
ReplyDeleteDoing the first I.p was my challenge because I was a bit behind on Awnsering my big question because I was to stuck finding my information more then i should of so it made me lose time. Also because on the last few days i had nothing to present my information on so i had to do a quick poster and it didn't have much things on I was in a big rush. And i got mixed up on the buildings and the information was wrong. But i learned from my mistake.
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