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Names of members Member 1: Phua Zai Jie (25) Member 2: Kelwin See (26) Member 3: Su En Hao (27) Member 4: Tan Boon Kit (28) Guiding Question 1 How does deforestation affect the climate? How does human civilisation affect the weather ? Why is there weather game? How does weather affect the rise in sea level? Guiding Question 2 What can people learn from OUR weather game ? Is the weather linked to global warming ? How does the cloud change? How the weather affect the sea in having more tsunamis? Guiding Question 3 How do we slow down global warming ? How does the weather affect the economy ? What are the different kind of weather games ? How does the rise in number of ship affect the marine life ? Guiding Question 4 Is the melting of the ice berg affected by the weather ? How does weather affect us ? How do different weather occur? How does the man made disaster affect the weather ?
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Knowing what we have to do... Lets answer these questions in sequence. 1) What is our topic? Why is this game invented? What is the purpose of the game ? Who invented the game ? When is it invented ? Does it really works for us to know weather better ? Library Web Teachers
Weather Game2) What do we already know about the topic?We know that the game have to include the cause and effect of a weather system. 3) What are the questions we want to ask about this topic? 4) What are the subjects/skills we can make use of?5) Where can we go to find information on our project?6) What do we want to prepare to tell others about our project?
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Our Group Name: Weather-menMy name is Su En Hao. I am a good member of our group because I am responsible.My name is Phua Zai Jie. I am a good member of our group because I am hardworking.My name is Tan Boon Kit. I am a good member of our group because I can give good ideas to my group members.My name is Kelwin See. I am a good member of our group because I can work perfectly with my group members.Our Group Motto: Rain or Shine, Wind or Storm. We predict them all !
Think about the project tasks that you have done during the week, and write down your thoughts. Write at least 4 sentences for every question.Facts What I know I know we should split our work among ourselves. Ask questions when we got problem. And we can do better if we start early. Ideas What I think I think we can let two person to do research and the others to do powerpoint. Research will always be updated among ourselves and choose the better one to present. If we always do work together, we can have a higher quality of work.Learning IssuesWhat I want to find out We want to know the wind patterns and how it affects our weather. We want to knowhow to make the board game interesting. We want to know how tides and waves and how it affects the weather. We want to know everything about weather! Action Plan What I can do I can do online research. Since we have got macbooks, we can make full use of them. Using technology thats available to us.
How do attain the level, “Exceeding Expectations” for your project?
1 Knowledge and skills application
a) Process (gathering and processing information): Group Project File
• Your group acquires relevant information from a variety of reliable sources.
• Your group identifies essential guiding questions regarding global warming, climate change and alternative sources of clean energy.
• Your group shows competence in analysing the information and making personal convincing and perceptive inferences about the consequences to the earth and creating a product with applied knowledge.
• Your group generates and selects ideas on how to present the information effectively in the report.
• Your group shows considerable evidence of evaluating and improving the inferences made, making checks on the accuracy of information, so that your reports are useful and relevant to readers.
1 Knowledge and skills application
b) Product (The news articles)
• Your articles show your group has made thorough use of knowledge and skills from Science, Geography and providing useful and relevant information to potential environmentalists and leaders.
• The articles show a high level of creativity and thoughtfulness in other relevant subjects to complete the articles.
• Your group is highly successful in applying knowledge to create a product for the theme.
• The main ideas in your articles are consistently clear and presented with depth, effectively supported with facts, vivid details and appropriate examples.
• The articles are well organised and coherent.
2 Oral Communication
a) Presentation as a group
• The group presentation is very well organised as a whole; each member’s part is very well linked to another.
• The overall presentation is highly effective because your group has taken into consideration the audience’s needs and interests. The visual aids or IT you use are effective.
• Your group is able to answer the questions raised by the audience well, showing excellent understanding of the project.
2 Oral Communication
b) Individual presentation
• Your delivery is clear and fluent.
• You show confidence when speaking to the audience and do not need to depend much on your notes.
• You are able to keep the audience‘s attention most of the time.
3 Collaboration
a) Teamwork
• All members make the effort to work cooperatively.
• Your group manages time very well, meeting most if not all of your targets.
3 Collaboration
b) Individual Contribution
• You have made every effort to make a significant contribution to the project.
• You have made every effort to carry out your individual duties well and on time.
4 Independent Learning (Individual)
• You know your strengths and your weak areas and how to improve yourself.
• You are positive and responsible towards learning and work.