Our inquiry topic/theme has been split in two this term due to student demand for one last IP (Interest Project) for the year. Our class theme, which is science-based and looks at forces and motion, will be condensed to make way for the more student-directed interest inquiries that we have become familiar with this year.
The theme for this term's interest projects is 'How stuff works', which lends itself well to our forces and motion theme for those who have chosen questions that are connected to learning about the physical world in some way.
The basic guidelines for IPs is the same as we have done before.
We need to:
1. Write up a basic plan that includes our initial driving questions and resources required.
2. Create or continue an IP blog that we update each week about our progress.
3. Share our learning journey at the end of term.
We will have at least one IP workshop each week. This is an entire morning or afternoon that we can spend on our independent inquiries. Many of us have also been finding information at home or using organisation time before school to work on our IPs.
Lots of interesting questions are driving our IPs. It will no doubt be a great learning experience for all of us as we go from novices to teachers when sharing our journeys at the end of term.
Some plan examples from our wall:
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| Phoebe's initial plan |
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| Athalia's initial plan |
This past week we have been making sure that we are taking action with our IPs. Some of us know from experience that time can seem to slip away if you are not thinking carefully about how you use it and reflecting on each IP workshop. Here is what we thought taking action would look like as we begin to get deeper in our projects...
Don't forget to check our interest project blogs to read about how each of us are going!
Can't wait to find out about what everyone else learnt on their i.p journey. There are definitely some I.ps that are interesting. Most people in Rm 14 won't have any idea how most things work. Good luck Rm 14 hope you have a educational journey.
ReplyDeleteThis is one of my learning highlights because we worked so hard to go through our research. Also because when we were sharing a lot of people improved from last time. This ip it was better for me because last ip i wasn't confident but term 4's ip i was confident. Being in room 14 has helped me a lot because I've made a lot of good friends. Doing the ip has made me learn a lot about other things and how things work and about the past, present, future and it has built up my knowledge.
ReplyDeleteHighlights: My highlight was finding heaps of ideas and sucking them in my head. Then I highlighted all the key information and put it in my own words and started to put all my ideas on google slide's.
ReplyDeleteChallenges: My challenge that I faced was finding information that I didn't know about so I had to find the words that I didn't get and new about. Then when I was going through my slide's I forgot my driving questions so on the day that we presented Jacob had a question and he said did you have a driving question. Then I remembered that we had to do a driving question.