FINALLY! my capstone is DONE! I am so proud of my skills for being a researcher. I am also really proud of my writing skills. I have also improved my speaking skills and am proud of that. Wow, so many things to be proud of!
The process of my research was easy on the finding articles, videos, and interviewers, but it was hard for Me to make the information my own was a whole different story because I am not good with that stuff. also, adding all the information to my script was really hard because it had so much information on crystals and gemstones
I interviewed three amazing people who are experts at either the forming of crystals and gemstones, the jewelry part of crystals and gemstones, or both! they gave me so much information but when I tried to record the first person I interviewed – which was Daphne Lingon – it didn’t work for some reason. because of that, I rushed to get all the information that I remembered down into my notebook. If I had recorded it properly, I think I would have had so much more info.
Making the slideshow for my presentation was challenging but also sort of easy. it was challenging to find the right photo that was actually in creative comms. on the other hand, I knew what I wanted to put I like a picture so that made finding a photo easier but also slightly harder because I looked for a specific thing, and also I typed what I wanted and I ended up with things that were not even related to my topic.
my favorite part of the process of my capstone was writing my script although most things were really thought and hard, even the script writing. the script writing was hard because like I said before, I couldn’t fit all the great information that I had. Because I had a little bit of extra information, I am going to share some of it with you.
- Mostly, minerals are expensive because of how popular the mineral is but sometimes it depends on how rare the mineral is.
- there is something called a MOHS scale of hardness which is just what its name describes it as, a scale of hardness. it shows which gems are the hardest.
- crystals get their color from the atoms trapped inside the crystal.
all the pictures that I found were either creative comms or I found them on Britannica. the resources I used for researching were BrainPOP, Wonderopolis, Ducksters, and some physical books like Earth’s Rocky Past: Crystals, and a book called “Minerals”.
the people who helped me a lot were: Trinity, Camilla, Isabella, Jane, Raiya (myself), Nea, and Elif. A HUGE thank you to Mrs. Boyer (teacher), Daphne Lingon (Interiewie), Myles Feltch (Interiewie), Zamier Kassam (Interiewie), And Sabeen and Hash Mian (my Parents)
overall, I think that capstone was an amazing end-of-year project. it really shows all our skills from the whole school year in just one presentation. it also shows how amazing kids can be sometimes.