Ignite Talk Reflection

This ignite was a presentation about extreme weather and answering a question about it. For example, if you were doing it about earthquakes, the question could be “how do earthquakes happen.” I was doing my ignite about floods, and my research question was how can people protect themselves from floods. I first did some learning on floods. I looked at websites, but it soon came to me that epic was the better thing to get information from.

Next, I organized my facts to say for each slide. Some of the facts I scrapped because I needed 15 seconds to say stuff about floods. Then once we were ready, we practiced. I think the biggest challenge was saying everything in 15 seconds when my slides changed. Another challenge was finding good pictures because it was hard to find one that described what I was saying.

Overall, It was hard and I felt huge weight off me when I finished doing it. I wouldn’t want to do another ignite because it was stressful and it gave me many sleepless nights stressing about it.

 

 

Expert Book: Bowling

This is how I came up with my idea: first, we had these pieces of paper where we wrote what subjects we knew a lot about. We wrote stuff like collections of things we had, sports we play, topics we like and etc. Then we picked which three things we wanted to write about most. I was going to write about fish, but I wrote about them last year. So I went with bowling.

What was a little bit hard for me was mostly finding a good picture for my book. I did struggle on other things, too. One example is I had a hard time coming up with an introduction.

The process of making my book was this: 1 – make a subject idea. 2 – write chapters and subheadings. 3 – write the expert book in my RRJ. 4 – type it on the computer. 5 – revise. 6 – revise for the last time.

My favorite part was when we showed our expert books to our parents. I’m glad they got to see all of our hard work.

I think what I learned about myself is that I know more about bowling than I thought.

I feel proud on my expert book because I put a lot of effort into it and it turned out great!

This is my expert book.


Thank you for reading!