Year End Inquiry Project
Would you enjoy the opportunity to share your passion with your teacher and/or your peers? Have you ever thought that you would like the chance to teach others a skill that you have mastered?
Now is the time! In the final weeks of school, we would like you to teach us about a personal passion of yours or a skill/technique that has an importance to you.
Your final inquiry project is to be completed by Tuesday, June 23rd (end of the day), therefore you have a total of 7 school days. Your classroom teacher will either be reviewing your submitted projects OR meeting for individual presentations on Wednesday, June 24th and Thursday, June 25th.
Learning Intentions:
- I can organize ideas and information using many strategies.
- I can record ideas and information that are on topic.
- I can communicate ideas and information in a variety of ways.
- I can present information in an organized way.
Student Checklist:
I have made sure that:
- Ideas between sentences are connected in a way that makes sense (a natural flow)
- At least 3 connections to subject strands (can all be from the same subject or from a variety of subjects) are stated in the presentation
- A clear, organized presentation appropriate to the audience on the passion or skill is prepared
- The presentation is a minimum of 2 minutes and a maximum of 5 minutes.
Possible Topics:
*sport related (ie. how to pass a puck in hockey, shoot a free throw in basket-ball, hit a long drive in golf)
*cooking/baking
*robotics/technology
*gardening (ie. how to prepare your garden for seed, how to decide which plants/flowers to use)
*origami
*arts (dance, music, art)
*sketching
*personal family origin/background
*construction/architecture
*personal hobby
*club
*skill (yo-yo tricks, sewing, skateboarding)
Think about where learning lives in your passion/skill. Does it use a lot of math or science? Do you need literacy skills to be successful with it? Maybe it requires a knowledge of the past. Think about each of these topics and see if you can find where learning lives in your passion. You may find that it connects directly to one main subject or uses learning from many subjects. Here are a few strands that you may wish to include in your presentation:
Math
- Calculating numbers (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division)
- Estimating (quantities, time, distance, speed, area)
- Money (decimals, addition/subtraction, estimating, rounding, counting)
- Making, using or reading fractions (as part of a set of items or a whole object)
- Patterns (finding patterns in tables or charts, putting information into a table or chart
- Telling time on a clock
- Reading and recording calendar dates
- Estimating or calculating perimeter or area of a space
- Creating/constructing 2-D or 3-D shapes
- Creating or identifying symmetrical shapes or pictures
- Creating, reading and understanding graphs
- Additional mathematical ideas that might fit: angles, percentages, capacity (mL, L), mass (g, kg), volume (cm3, m3)
Science
- Simple Machines (transfer of motion using gears, levers, pulleys, speed)
- Environment (recycle, reuse, reduce,)
- Light and Shadow (light sources, reflection, refraction, relationship between light and various materials)
- Plant Growth and Change (structure/function of plant parts, plant life cycle, steps to proper plant care)
- Building a device/vehicle that moves (wheels, rollers, gears, pulleys and a variety of levers and connectors, transfer of motion - including pushes, pulls, cranking, inclines)
Literacy (incl. Social Studies)
- Asking questions
- Thinking about the ideas of others
- Vocabulary specific to your passion
- Spelling patterns
- Finding information or research
- Expressing personal experiences
- Expressing personal opinions
- Sharing ideas in interesting ways
- Telling/reading/writing a story
- Working together with others / collaborating
- Geography (connection to the land)
- History (connection to the past)
- Culture (connection to other cultures)
- Personal identity
- Valuing and respecting diversity
Health & Wellness
- Movement activities (individual or group)
- Nutrition (Food Guide to Healthy Eating)
- Functional fitness
- Health benefits that result from physical activity (both physical and emotional)
- Interacting positively with others (fair play, leadership, communication, teamwork, respect, role model)
- Goal setting/personal challenge, effort, safety (organization, decision making)
Here are a few examples:
(these are examples of specific skills and/or passions AND examples of GOOD presentations)
Playing the Drum: attached. Mrs. H describes her passion for drumming and teaches a few rhythms.
Learning how to ride a bike: demonstrate how a bike works or how to ride a bike
- Science connections: simple machines (gears, wheels), sounds when riding a bike (wind in your ears, gears clicking), force and motion (force on the pedals creates motion in the wheels)
- Math connections: shape (shape of wheels, gears, measurement of length/height/speed)
- Literacy connections: descriptive words to describe the feeling of riding a bike, onomatopoeia of the sounds of riding a bike (whoosh, click, zoom, splash), a story beginning that includes riding a bike
Learning how to pass a ball in Field Hockey:
Learning how to Juggle: This example does a great job of demonstrating the steps to learn to juggle. It’s fun and easy to understand.
Learning how to sew a teddy bear by hand:
Source: https://cargocollective.com/samanthahawthorne/How-To-Poster
Source: https://cargocollective.com/samanthahawthorne/How-To-Poster
Presentation Component
When deciding on how to present your passion/skill, you have a choice:
- Video/Movie - you can pre-record yourself sharing your passion/skill. We would like your video to be a minimum of 2 minutes long and a maximum of 5 minutes long. When you have completed your video, please email your teacher to let them know you have completed your task.
- LIVE video - if you feel that the sharing of your passion/skill is best done live, please connect with your classroom teacher to schedule a 15 minute time block.
- Alternate visual representations of your learning - poster, slide show, model, photos of the process (when you have completed the task, please take a photo of your work and submit this to your classroom teacher)
Non-Examples of Presentations
Good vs Bad presentations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5c1susCPAE
Too simple and unclear:
Too complex and confusing:
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