cretaceous Reflection
The last project we completed in science was on space and planets. We each chose a planet, then researched it. The idea was that in the end we would come together and each person would share about their planet. This way everyone would know about all the planets. Well after we finished that project we thought maybe we should direct our learning to our earth. someone had the idea that we should each pick a period of the earths history. I chose the cretaceous period maxx was also interested in the same period.So we set guide lines for what we should learn and accomplish and then the idea was we would do something we had done for our planet project. We would all come together and share, but there was a little bit more for this project we were to present a real presentation.
Our first step was to research. Maxx and i decided to work as a group and what he really wanted to do was diorama. Anyway so we started to research, and as we were researching we found that there is a tone of information out there. we used many websites and books. There was this great book that carwai had. That had lots of the dinosaurs that were in our period. With lots of information about them. As part of our guide lines we had to learn about climate,plants and what ever else made your period special. One thing that i have been doing more and more is taking notes. when i found anything interesting about our period i would take notes.
Then we started working on our diorama. first maxx took a box he cut out the top then added a another piece of cardboard. After we collected dirt from out side. Then we split up, i made the land animals and planets. maxx made the sea animals . I took many tries before i managed to make them look like actual dinosaurs. I made a triceratops a t-rex and a kromsaurs which is a water dinosaur.
The presentation part did not go as well as we had planed. well on the Thursday before the our presentation maxx and i got together and talked about what we where going to say and how we were going to percent , but come the day of the presentation it did not really go to plan. Maxx and I each wanted say something, but they overlapped a little, so I think our presentation did not go all that smoothly. In my parent teacher conference rob and carwai had mentioned that i should work on my presentations, because i tend to not really stay on the same topic and that goes for every day talking too . so for the presentation i really wanted it to be the best it could be. I had notes, i knew what i wanted to say i just think that i was hard because maxx and did not seem to be on the same page. I don’t mean that as an excuse, but it did make things a little harder with two people.
I thought that maxx and I did an over all pretty good job. We did have some room for improvement . One thing that could have made our presentation better is just the basic being more prepared. we new all the facts, but just being on the same page and going over the presentation before. I definitely learned that presenting with people is hard . All we needed to do was not share so many small facts and really just focus on the more important facts. I am definitely proud of the diorama.
listening to all the presentations was great. this was the part of the project i was really looking forward to. Each presentation was different in its own way. Carwai did a sort of prezi which is like a power point and a drawing . Charmaine made several drawing of dinosaurs. Andrew had a keynote and so did Rob. Sherif made dinosaurs on a game named mincraft. Brianna made a very cool memory game. I really enjoyed listening and watching each presentation. It was fascinating to learn about each period, because then I started to make connection about all the periods. How the triassic period went in to the jurassic and how the dinosaurs ,plants and weather evolved in to my period the cretaceous. How the dinosaurs died, and in briannas period the paleogene they had mammals . Andrew talked about what it going to happen in the future and rob about what we have caused our earth. Carwai talked about the high carbon level in the carboniferous period and many more facts about all of the periods. I really think that if someone asked me about any of the periods i could answers most of the questions.
today we got feedback from everyone in our class. I agreed with every thing they said. We needed to work on our presentation, but we had lots of information. Over all I loved the project and think we did a great job.
