Capstone 2

Recently we started capstone. In the other blog post I said that I chose Google as my topic. It was too hard to research it so I decided that I was going to do NFL stadiums.

This post will be about my inquiry questions. To start ideas for a main inquiry question we did some pre-search. That really helped me with coming up with questions.. My main inquiry question is, “How have football stadiums designs changed over time?” I chose this because many aspects of football stadiums fall under this like technology in them, rules, and the process of building them. I learned that many football stadiums have some technology that no other places in the world have. We also worked on our sub questions.

The sub questions are supposed to act as follow up questions to our main inquiry question. One of my sub questions is, ” Who funds NFL stadiums?” I probably would not have thought of that question if I didn’t do any pre-search. In all we’re supposed to have one main question and five sub question. Next week we will start our research.

Capstone 1

My class has just started the biggest project of fifth grade, capstone. Capstone is a project where you choose any topic and you research it using one main question and five other questions. A part of the project is that you have to get a site visit and an interview related to the topic. You then present to a group of people.

Before we chose a topic we were given a packet that had questions about our interests, areas of expertise we have, things we enjoy, and more. This was supposed to help us brainstorm ideas for our topics.

The process of choosing a topic was hard because there were so many options. At first I was thinking of doing something sports related about football or basketball. I was seriously considering doing the football hall of fame but then I thought about how hard it would be to get a site visit for that because it’s all the way in Canton, Ohio. Then I decided I would do something related to technology or a certain brand. I narrowed my topics down to three ideas, Apple, Google, and Nike. In the end Google was the winner because it interested me the most.

I hope that when I start researching I will have enough information to find about Google. Also I hope that my interview is a helpful one. A goal that I have for capstone is to use many different resources because I usually use only a few.