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In my year-long unit, I’m inquiring into the theme Who We Are through the central idea, “Values and beliefs define individuals and communities.”

This unit is explored through the following lines of inquiry:

how self-efficacy enhances human accomplishments and well-being (function)

our independence and responsibility in physical and digital environments (connection)

the changes we go through during puberty (change)

During this unit I am gathering evidence to showcase my understanding of the Learner Profile attributes: reflection and open minded. Take a look at the ways I have shown these and how I’ve developed my understanding of these profiles.

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The Approaches to Learning (ATLs/skills) I am developing throughout this unit are Metacognition 'thinking about thinking' and Self Management Skills 'thinking and applying our states of mind’. As this unit develops throughout the year, I will continue to build on these and other skills such as goal setting as a learner. Take a look at my learning and let me share with you what I now know how to do.

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Using Jo Boaler 's research, we looked into the maths mindset and we identified that I need to work on making mistakes because sometimes if the question is very hard I will think that I will embarrass myself and get it wrong. I need to be O.K. with making mistakes because they help your brain make connections and learn more.

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My reading target is to find the main idea of the story because sometimes reading hard books and complex paragraphs make me don't understand the main idea of what the whole story is about. So that is why I have chosen this as my target.

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This presentation is presenting what is light energy, how we use light energy and there is a video about refraction. This was created by Kaden Nathan and Harry.

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I have learned to be courageous because when I was doing the energy presentation, then I did not know how to pronounce some words. Instead, I tried my best to pronounce it but when I said it wrong, my partners helped me and we all finished it together.  I need to work on reading the slides without looking at the screen because that will make my memorising skills better and using eye contact.

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In this presentation, we made a invention that needs to connect to energy transfer and transformation. I made a solar powered neck pillow fan to use on hiking trips and I also explained how it works and how it is sustainable like the solar powered neck pillow fan helps us keep cool and comfortable as well as using solar panels to be good to the enviorment.
My next step is to use energy transfer and transformation in more technological advances.
P.S press the picture to go to the slides

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I learn best when I am in a space that I am not distracted or in a group because when I am working and somebody is coming to distract me it could make me off task so I need to be in a space that people that are distracting away from me. On the other hand, working with people can also help me because if I am stuck on a part, my friends can help me a little bit so I can continue on the task.

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In my third unit, I’ve inquired into the transdisciplinary unit ‘Where We are In Place and Time’ under the central idea, “Conserving h eritage enables people to appreciate the past. ”

The unit was explored through the following lines of inquiry and concepts:

The different values we place on our own and other people’s heritage  (perspective)

Personal, local and global approaches to heritage conservation (responsibility)

How heritage connects us (connection)

During this unit of inquiry I’ve gathered evidence to showcase my understanding of the Learner Profile attributes: Courageous and open minded. Take a look at the ways I have shown how I’ve developed these attributes.

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During this unit, we investigated into our heritage. I used to think that heritage was just an object passed down like something my mother gave me. We now learned that heritage is also like our beliefs and our own culture. Example: my heritage is chinese new year. It is my heritage because it was a tradition that was passed down generations and is  a chinese festival and I am chinese so it is connected to me and my own heritage.

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I have developed my thinking and gained new knowledge throughout this unit. In particular the enduring understandings I have and will develop are:

Perspective:

The value placed on heritage is informed by cultural background.

The value placed on heritage informs what’s worth conserving.

The heritage we share is shaped by values (including stories)

Responsibility:

An understanding of heritage fosters awareness and appreciation of cultural diversity. (open mindedness)

An understanding of heritage provides opportunities for people to contribute to conservation in meaningful ways (action).

There are many different forms, processes, tools that enable conservation. (function/form)

narrative, arts, artefacts, digital…

Connection

Cultural heritage can connect communities and provide a sense of unity through identifying shared values and beliefs

An understanding of heritage brings about a sense of identity, pride and belonging to people.

Heritage conservation provides opportunities to work together and take action on personal, local and global levels.

Take a look at my learning and let me share with you how knowledgeable I have become.

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I liked camp very much! The activity that I enjoyed the most was kayaking because it let let me learn more things and it also let me overcome the fear of over boards as well as balancing and using the right strategy to help control the kayak.

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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I was good at doing the synthesis part because I could use all the learning that I learned to explain my thinking and using my own words to summarize my research.
I think I need to work on the time management skills for the finding out stage because that took quite a long time and I kept on changing ideas of how to research, so I need to work on this target.

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What I did well was that I could present clearly with expression to others when I was presenting. I could also use my learning and findings to make a whole summary of what were the research findings, how it connects and how it helps us understand what is the question's answer. Another thing I did was that I used social intelligence. I can prove it because I was doing the research stage, I was doing forms. During that, I chose what questions to ask the other students. I chose the appropriate questions and used the answers to add to my summary
What I can improve is that I would need to use more than one source to find out more that can make us understand more of the conceptual question and can use more of my research & ideas to help me with my own research.

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In my fourth unit, I’ve inquired into the social studies strand ‘Resources and the Environment’ and ‘Human Systems and Economic Activity’ through the central idea, “consumers can make choices to ensure the sustainability of the Earth”.

The unit was explored through the following lines of inquiry:

our choices as consumers (perspective)

reasons Earth’s resources are being depleted (causation)

sustainable solutions (responsibility)

During this unit of inquiry I’ve gathered evidence to showcase my understanding of the Learner Profile attributes: principled and caring. Take a look at the ways I have shown how I’ve developed these attributes.   Related Concepts

I have continued to work on my thinking and communication skills focusing on ways I can consider new perspectives and also how to be an effective speaker and listener when trying to persuade an audience.

I have learned much more about and gained new understandings of our related concepts: consumption/consumer, choice, finite resources (Earth’s natural resources), depletion, sustainability, solutions

Take a look at my learning and let me share with you how my understanding has grown.

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What learner profile I used during my STP was that I could use time management properly. A reason is because my group and I separated to do our canva, slides and our rubic. What we need to do better is that we need to use more time to help others. I chose this because my group did not really help much when we are working on different things, so that is why I chose this as my next step.

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during our inquiry of pypx, we needed to find a topic to inquire into. I chose gender equality because people think that dolls are only for girls and lego's are for boys