Lucy

=Research Project Journals (2010)=
 * __Week 1 (Week 10, Term 2)__**

__Mon 21/6__ Introduction to Research Project Learning Style <- []

__Wed 23/6__ Went on Moodle Site- 6 steps of research based learning Setting up Wikispace

__Fri 25/6__ Continuation of 6 steps of learning - Type up using laptops

** Six Steps to Research Based Learning **

// Define the Task //
Understand what is needed to do the work. What is needed be done.

// Locate Information //
Find the information needed

// Select Resources //
Choose how you’re going to get the information

// Organise Notes //
Put the information you’ve collected in some sort of order

// Present the Ideas //
Show what information you’ve collected in a comprehendible way

// Evaluate your work //
Judge the work you have done and how you feel about it.

1.What have you achieved?During week one of Research Project, I learnt that I am a tactile learner through the use of the learning style application on the Berghuis page above. I also made a joined a wiki space page created by Mr Street which allows me to share information with my class. I went on Moodle and read through the 6 steps to Research based learning which I then rewrote in my own words.

2. What did you want to achieve? What I wanted to do this week was develop a clear idea of what I need to do in order to maximise what I can get out of this research project class and organise my group which currently consists of Lani, Alyssa and I so we can help with Science Week.

3. Positives/ Successes I was able to find out what week is on was able to sit in a double lesson wth the rest of the group. This helped us develop a planning session and organise ourselves a little. I also learnt my learning style, made myself a wikispace and got access to a computer in order to write up this journal.

4. Negatives/Limitations/Problems A problem that we will face nearing Science week is that Lani, a member of the group will be going to Melbourne which means that she'll be unable to help us during the week with whatever we eventually decide to do. A limitation that I release that my group is not capable of organising science week for the entire school because that would take up too much time we don't have and it would be too much work so we have to work on making out idea less broad.

5.Interesting Comments We've notified members of the science faculty about our planned involvement in Science Week and we think that they're excited to have some students involved in the prepartion. The idea of helping out for Scince Week was developed after a conversation with Ms. Pettinau late last semester during Biology. We were discussing things we could do for research project and Ms. Pettinau suggested we could help out with Science Week. Most other groups are working with people from their own class and this semester there was 3 research project classes being held. I am working with my friends from another class because I think that way we could organise and work together better because we trust eachother and know what eachother and capable of. Lani and Alyssa's Research project class is being held during the time I have supervised and vise versa, so when we have nothing to during our supervised, we can opt to sit in during eachother's research project class. This allows the group to collaborate and brainstorm ideas which will be a great help when we get this project started.


 * __Week 2 (Week 11, Term 2)__**

__Monday 28/6__ Harvard Referencing Worksheets - Internet was down

__Wed 30/6__ Getting journals up to date on the class Wiki page

__Fri 2/7__ Played maths games

1.What have you achieved? During this week I got my journal up to date and completed a worksheet on Harvard referencing

2. What did you want to achieve? I didn't set a goal this week but I think I did what was expected of me during class time by doing the set work.

3.Positives/ Successes I finished my harvard referencing sheet on time.

4.Negatives/Limitations/Problems This week was the last week of term 2 so I wasn't motivated and didn't do as much work I usually would.

5.Interesting Comments Nearing the end of term, everyone was winding down. So instead of doing work on the last day of school, Mr Street allowed the class to play some educational games.


 * __Week 3 (Week 1 Term 3)__**

__Mon 19/7__ Started on concept map for project ( Internet and network was down)

__Wed 21/7__ Had access to computers. Concept map using Inspiration 6 Journal update Evaluating web sites and pages (Wikispace home page)

__Fri 23/7__ Update Journal for this week Work on concept map 'inspiration 6' Go to homepage of wikispace and click on bottom link about checking out a website

1.What have you achieved? This week i have started my concept mad for my project. I think it's going well even if at the start of the week we hit a road block when the computers and the internet was down.

2.What did you want to achieve? This week i wanted to focus on getting back on track on this project because the holidays have lead me astray.

3.Positives/ Successes The computers have been working the rest of the week so there wasn't any problems after the first day.

4.Negatives/Limitations/Problems The computers weren't working the start of the week.

5.Interesting Comments Science week is coming up soon, so the next few weeks will be focussed in hopefully talking to Ms.Miller and look at my group's involvement in it.


 * __Week 4 (Week 2, Term 3)__**

__Monday 26/7__ Worked on mind map Saw Ms. Miller's hand out to the science staff (Need to Talk to her ASAP) __Wed 28/7__ N/A Bushwalking excursion

__Fri 30/7__ Go to the intranet homepage use Ebscohost to find 5 articles relating to your research to find 5 articles relating to your research topic Write a 2 sentence summary Use harvard referencing system to reference

1.What have you achieved? This week my group completed a survey draft which needs to be reviewed before it is given out to the students participating in National Science Week this year. Also during this week's lesson on monday I updated my journal for the week before like I do every week.

2.What did you want to achieve? I wanted to complete a substantial amount of work to make sure i wasn't slacking off.

3.Positives/ Successes The surveys are completed with a straight forward hypothesis so my group has a clear direction we are heading in.

4.Negatives/Limitations/Problems My bushwalking class has daytrips that are mandatory as a part of the outdoor education program. These day trips happen on Wednesday when I have double Research project and Supervise which is when i do most of my work concerning this project.

5.Interesting Comments None that I can think of.



__Monday 2/8__ Journal Evalution of Websites Ebsco host thing (as above) Moodle online courses 'You quote it, note it' - Summary of Article (During this lesson i organised a meeting with Ms. Miller Lesson 5 Wednesday)
 * __Week 5 (Week 3, Term 3)__**

__﻿Wednesday 4/8__ Had Meeting with Ms. Miller along with Alyssa and Lani. (Survey needs to be redone) Evaluating Websites.- Read through flash animation Ebcso host find 5 articles about your topic, write a 2 sentence summuary & reference 'You quote it you note it'-Read Through Flash Animation

__Friday 6/8__ Continued with tasks above Worked on Journal

1. What have you achieved? This week, I arranged an interview with Ms. Miller with my group, in order to figure out what my group could do with science week. We showed her the draft to our survey and she said it looked good apart from the way we ordered the questions so we rearranged to make sure our survey was in a logical order. I also did the set tasks in class.

2. What did you want to achieve? I wanted to get work done with my project this week and this was done with my meeting with Ms. Miller.

3. Positives/ Successes The meeting went well and it helped my group further define our topic by tweaking our hypothesis a little.

4. Negatives/Limitations/Problems There wasn't any problems this week. 5. Interesting Comments N/A.

__Monday 9/8__ Sick, away __Wednesday 11/8__ Had Ms. Miller Print off Surveys during Supervised and spent lesson handing surveys out. Covered all students in Penny and Jubilee who were yr 8's and 10's Credible Sources thing
 * __Week 6 (Week 4, Term3)__**

__Friday 13/8__ Updating Journal Drew Pretty Picture with Alice :D Lani going to melbourne Handing out Surveys during Supervised

1. What have you achieved? My group has been at work getting our first primary source of infromation by giving out our surveys. We've decided on doing a before and after survey in order to gauge the effectiveness of science week, so when we've finished with this survey we need to makes another survey/

2. What did you want to achieve? I wanted to be able to give out all the surveys in order to get the opnion of all the 8's and 10's.

3. Positives/ Successes We managed to get Ms. Miller to print off our surveys and we managed to hand out alot of surveys. 4. Negatives/Limitations/Problems We weren't able to give out all the surveys in one go which would've been much easier instead of going around the whole school and finding classes. A huge negative was Lani going to Melbourne. So we were down one group member especially when she was practicing for Melbourne. However, Alyssa and I did fine without her so it was no big deal. 5. Interesting Comments N/A.

__Monday 16/8__ Capabilities of Learning thing + Handing out Surveys Drew another pretty picture with Alice :D Lani wasn't at school
 * __Week 7 (Week 5, Term3)__**

__Wednesday 18/8__ Science week underway, hand out a good amount of surveys which were filled out Getting Pictures of Egg drop from Ms. Pettinau

__Friday 20/8__ The science week activity for the year 8's seemed successful everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves Got a considerable amount of surveys completed and sorted into year level and gender Got a few from Mr Street, still waiting on the ones given to the PE teachers. Made a pretty picture with Alice

1. What have you achieved? Alyssa and I have finished giving out the surveys and we've managed to get a lot of them filled out. Which means we've finished collecting our first primary source. My group spent Lani's and Alyssa's research project lesson converting the survey information into table form inorder to make chart out of them for our final presentation.

2. What did you want to achieve? This week, I wanted to get the survey stuff over and done with to get other research for the project done. I really just want this project over and done with right now.

3. Positives/ Successes Managed to give out and receive a lot of the surveys so we were able to convert alot of it into table format by tallying the survey responses. We've sorted out the surveys into year level and gender because my group thinks that gender and age will play an important factor in whether of not they were interested in science or if they want science career or not. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. Negatives/Limitations/Problems <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On Tuesday, my group members and I were unable to attend the year 10's science week activity because we had course counselling. So we were unable to help out or take photos of that activity. I spent time in class instead of going to the year 8 one too so that meant we'll have to rely a lot on our surveys for information on it. Lani was at Melbourne for the start of the week so we couldn't enlist her help in giving out the surveys.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5. Interesting Comments My group are seeing about maybe including some pictures from science week in our project, we may have to talk to Ms. Pettinau and see if she took any photos.

__Monday 23/8/2010__ Journals Gantt Chart -No bushwalking this week
 * __Week 8 (Week 6,Term3)__**

__Wednesday 25/8__ There was a bushwalking day trip planned today but it was post poned until Week 9 Planned more of presentation with Alyssa (video) Did conversion of survey info into table form Lani was away but she left us with the survey tallies.

__Friday 27/8__ Wasn't well, went home

<span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">1. What have you achieved? <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">This week, Alyssa and I used her research project class to work on making out surveys into charts. I

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">2. What did you want to achieve?

I wanted to finish with the first survey this week inorder to get started on the next step of our research.

<span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">3. Positives/ Successes <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Alyssa and I decided on a format of presentation for our project. We chose a way for it to be easy for us to present to both classes easily. Making a video would be the best option for this.

<span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">4. Negatives/Limitations/Problems <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">We weren't able to work with Lani most of this week because she was home sick.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">5. Interesting Comments I think the project is doing pretty well and we're definitely on the way to finishing this project on time.

__**Week 9 (Week7, Term 3)**__ __Monday 30/8__ Journals

__Wednesday 1/8__ On Excursion

__Friday 3/9__ Journal Working on the research project activities, posting all work on Wikispaces this weekend

1. What have you achieved? I did not achieve much this week because I was distracted with my extra curicular activities and spent my research project lessons catching up on other work.

2. What did you want to achieve? All I wanted to achieve was to do as much as possible using the short time I had.

3. Positives/Successes Completed my journals and attended as many research project classes as possible

4. Negatives/Limitations/Problems I missed out on the double for both my research project class and my group's research project class so I missed out on a lot of time I could've been doing my project in.

5. Interesting Comments I'm working on finding all the tasks I've beem doing in class to add into my wikispace.

__Monday 6/9__ Show day - Whole school day off
 * __Week 10 ( Week 8, Term 3__)**

__Wednesday 8/9__ Journals Wikispace update

__Friday 10/9__ Journal

1. What have you achieved? I've added my group's mind map to my wikispace, that's about all this week because I've been using research project lessons to catch up on other work and we weren't at school on monday.

2. What did you want to achieve? What I wanted to do was add all the bits and pieces of work from the class into my wikispace but I think I need to keep it seperate from it for now because I need group collaboartion to finish most of the important stuff.

3. Positives/Successes I got my mindmap on to wikispace.

4. Negatives/Limitations/Problems I need to find the rest of my work and work out defining my project with the group. I didn't get a chance to go to Alyssa's and Lani's RPR class because I needed to work on English during my supervised. 5. Interesting Comments I like my new pokemon watch Next week should be more productive.



__Monday 13/9__ Sick __Wednesday 15/9__ Bushwalking __Friday 17/9__ Sick
 * __Week 11 (Week 9, Term 3)__**

1. What have I achieved? This week I wasn't at school for most of the week for research project so I didn't achieve anything.

2. What did I want to achieve? I wanted to get some work done.

3. Positives/Successes None 4. Negatives/Limitations Was sick for most of the week and Bushwalking took out my Research Project double.

5.Interesting Comments Bushwalking was fun

__**Week 12 (Week 10, Term 3)**__ __Monday 20/9__ Worked RPR class work

__Wednesday 22/9__ Worked RPR class work

__Friday 24/9__ Dentist appointment

1. What have I achieved? I got some work together for the inevitable presentation of work to put in my folder

2. What did I want to achieve? I wanted to get work done

3. Positives/Successes Go quite a bit done

4. Negatives/Limitations Had Dentist Appointment of the last day so I missed out on doing work.

5.Interesting Comments N/A

__Monday 11/10__ Collating Information
 * __Week 13 (Week 1, Term 4)__**

__Wednesday 13/10__ Worked out with group how we're going to get presentation together

__Friday 15/10__ Journals

1. What have I achieved? My group is starting to organise out work so that we are ready for presentation for week 4.

2. What did I want to achieve? I wanted to have a good idea of what to do for the weeks to come.

3. Positives/Successes My group has a rough idea of what we're going to do.

4. Negatives/Limitations It's going to be alot of work from here on out.

5.Interesting Comments I'm going to be spending a lot of time with my group and we're working out the details for our presentation. Tht should be fun/