Weekly Reflection T3 W3 - Science Badge

For this term we had to start our science projects because last term we finished our immersions about natures energy, physical energy and chemical reactions. For this term we had three options on what we could do our project on. First the teachers talked about our three paths we could take for each type of science project. There were three options learn it, teach it and prove it. Prove it you can either do science badge or a science fair. Science badge is an online coarse in which you complete science based tasks to do with the theme that you pick. Each task has an amount of stars you can receive to complete a number of twenty stars to earn the science badge of that science theme. The science fair is where you choose to display your science experiment with others in a science fair. If you chose to participate in a teach it science project you would either make a YouTube video explaining how to create and experiment or you would teach a class in another learning common in the school. Learn it you just do a science experiment with a driving question and the scientific method. I chose to work on a science badge for science project. I've really enjoyed it so far since we haven't received the badges yet and the full list of tasks I just started on one of the tasks in the sample tasks. Which is to write and article about three extinct animals and why they went extinct. I've started off by researching about three animals from africa and how they went extinct. Now I'm starting to write my article and it's going really well.

Monday the 7th of August we received our science badges and tasks. We had already started some tasks from sample they gave us. I had started the task where we have to research about 3 extinct animals and write an article about those animals and how they became extinct. It was a pretty easy task but I did struggle with how I could write the article because I had never written one before. But I did quite well in writing my own article and I got two stars for completing this task. We have to complete the right amount of tasks to get 20 stars in total. I also completed two other tasks to make a life cycle of a local fish and to make a slide show on where snails live in your garden which means so far I have 6 stars. Right now I'm working on one task at home and one at school. The one task I'm working on at home is making a scale model of how Maori used to store their food from rodents.

Monday 14th of August this our  last week before our science fair next week on monday the 21st of August. This week we have to create our presentation and we have two options to do it digitally or on a science fair display board. I chose the display board because I felt I could express my creativity more on a display board. I started my display board a bit late this week because I couldn't find a box big enough at home but then my mum got me one from her work. So I spent my whole wednesday afternoon making my presentation for monday but on tuesday got Jess to print out all of finshed tasks so I could glue them onto my display board. I brought it to school on thursday and finished it off with some finishing touches like metallic pen etc. I also had to write my indavidual tasks process next to each task and glued it on. When I was finishing off my display board I signed off two of my finished tasks which were the Maori storage model and to make a presentation on conserving rare animals. So on thursday I signed the tasks off with Jess which meant I received 4 more stars getting me to 10 stars! I also had spins that day so I finished off my display board at end of the day.