Regions Blog Post
About 2 months ago, my teacher told the class that we were going to do a regional project. This is when the class is divided up into groups, and that group picks a region. I was pretty excited at first because I thought it would be interesting.
The people in my group were me, Christian, Trevor, and Zach. The region we chose was the northwest region. It had 5 states so we decided that we all do the last one. I chose Washington as my state because I think Washington is a really cool state. Montana was the only state that no one chose.
The first step of this project was research. We had to do research on our state with categories. They were landmarks, politics, general, and history.
Then you have to choose what to present. All the other groups did a slide presentation, but my group decided to do a Google Website.
The research wasn’t too hard. The most challenging part was probably organizing all the information. I started the research for Montanna but then the rest of my group took over.
After all our information was done we started working on the website. Making the website wasn’t too complicated, I put in the information for general and history of Montana.
Our group was going to make a Kahoot at the end of the presentation, working on the Kahoot was very stressful because it kept not saving.
Our group practiced a lot, and the end result was worth it, this region’s project was super fun! I really enjoyed it!
Capstone Blog #1: Starting my Project
About 2 weeks ago my teacher announced that we were starting our capstone unit. A capstone is where you pick a topic and study it. Then you can either do an Ignite, a Ted Talk, or a Movie. An Ignite is when you have 12 slides, and each slide is 15 seconds. A Ted Talk is 3-5 minutes with no slide requirements. A movie is 3-6 minutes and can be done on WeVideo or Adobe Spark.
I had a little trouble choosing my topic. First I thought that I was going to do, “Ukraine Refugees,” but after researching, I quickly realized I didn’t have enough information. At that point, I was thinking of something to do with the Ukraine war. But I came to the same conclusion of not having enough information. I asked my teacher for some advice and finally, I thought of the topic: Social media affecting wars.
I started doing lots of research at finding many ways that social media affects wars, after I did research I was going to narrow down my topic.
I needed to narrow my topic down, because I could talk about it for hours about Social media affects wars. Working on my main inquiry question for me was not o difficult. My first one was: What impact does social media have on wars? I thought about this for a while and realized I don’t really want to do this. When a couple of other people shared their questions with the class I thought of an idea. My new question was: What are 3 benefits of using social media during wartime, and how have some of them been used?
Sub questions weren’t too hard, I just had to narrow down my main inquiry question. One challenge though was thinking of 5 . Two examples of my sub-questions are: What are some advantages of using social media during wartime? And, how have some people used social media during wartime? My sub-questions helped me a lot with research.
The first part of the capstone was really fun and interesting altogether, and I really hope that the 2nd part will be just as good.