Capstone Blog Post #1

Posted on May 11, 2020 by achoe27

5R has just started a new project called Capstone. Capstone is a presentation that someone gives on a topic that they’re interested in learning or already know a lot about and are passionate about it.

The first step was to think about what we wanted to do our Capstone about. I chose personal hygiene because I think this is a topic that people need to know and learn about because it’s an important skill that I think everyone should do/practice. After we thought about that, we had to fill in a “Curriculum Wheel Organizer”. A Curriculum Wheel Organizer is an organizer where you put in questions about your topic based on the box you fill out. For example, there is a math box, so I think of a question based on my topic (personal hygiene in case you forgot). For math you could do percentages and number of things etc. So I could put in “How much money does Costco make from hand wipes in an average year?” or something like that.

After you have completely finished the organizer, you do a one on one zoom call with our teacher to discuss our “Main Inquiry Question.” A main inquiry question is your main question that you choose to base you sub questions on. For example a main inquiry question for me could be, “How has personal hygiene and mortality affected the ecosystem?” and one of my five sub questions could be, “Have animals been dying because of our mortality rate?”

Next, we have to do this exact blog post and explain everything we’ve been doing for Capstone.

After we finish this, we move onto researching, yes, I can hear the sighs of relief. We get to research based on our five sub questions that are based off of our main inquiry question. This is where everything connects. There are two slides for each sub question. One for writing down the article’s name, how we know it’s a reliable source, the date of publication and one for writing down the notes that you gathered up from reading or listening the to article, website, database, book, and/or video.

It’s been really fun working on Capstone and I will probably have more fun on the actual presentation.

CU-Blog Post For Australia

Posted on June 14, 2018 by achoe27

We started going to the library and researching the books that we picked out. My country is Australia. It is a country and a continent. Next we went on some databases. Politics, Social Aspects, Economics, Beliefs, and Cultural Arts are the five things that we list in our book. The names of our characters (tour guides) are Maddy and Ajene. Our favorite parts of doing our book is making our characters. What we found challenging was researching the sport that australians play especially cricket and rugby. We learned that we need to get a lot of information for a quick book because at first when you see an example you think it’s really easy but you need to look on databases and you can’t leaf through books, or else you might miss an important part of the book and you might think you’re done, but you have an important piece of information that you could have used for a fact box.