Students have returned with much gusto and enthusiasm to continue their project work. We have been investigating how to break a project into smaller manageable steps and then reflect about the work completed each session and have been checking in as a group to see if we have achieved our goals. Each student has a checklist of sections that they need to prepare for their displays for Expo later this term, including plans, drawings, responses to stress tests, etc.
A number of students are not building models, and will instead prepare presentations, creative writing pieces, and possibly performances relating to our core inquiry into sustainability into the future, taking account of climate change and other threats.
Students have begun to explore the scientific method with a view to creating their own scientific experiments as workshops progress. They have begun to explore the purpose of having an hypothesis and the reasons that we conduct experiments and looking at the science that explains what we observed.
We have established goals for literacy in week one and are looking at goals for maths this week. We have an initial focus on measurement, linking into our inquiry where measuring and scale are critical success criteria. We have also begun exploring chance, looking at the language, and it is highly probable that we will continue exploring chance and data in the next couple of weeks.