1. What did I feel successful doing during the process of the project? What am I proud of?
I think that I have done a great job. I am proud to have achieved the hardest project I have ever done in Social Studies. I have tried so hard to get an easy information for young audience, tried hard to get a good picture, spend hours to get all of my citations right, tried so hard to make my project look perfect, spend at least 4 hours on my costume, spend half my life to get a good music, and managed to get my project organized until the Medieval Fair. I believe that I have accomplished what not many people could have managed to finish. I am extremely proud of myself.
2. What new skills did I value learning?
I have learned two things: By some of my mistakes, I learned that this is how High School projects are going to be like. This was kind of a practice to get myself adjust to hard projects. The other thing I learned from my mistake, is to be more organized. I was organized but I could have done a better job. For example, I always forget to cite my sources so I end up going back to that page and getting URL. This wasted a lot time from me.
3. What was challenging during the process of completing the project? With what did I struggle?
At first, I have got information that was too much for young children. In another words, I have wasted more than 6 hours of my effort. Also, I have made some mistakes with my assignments so I had to do it all over again. But, all of the mistakes gave me a practice of what it’s going to be when I have a High School Project. So I believe it wasn’t completely a waste of time. The real problem was that I kept getting better and better ideas. So I kept changing some parts of my topic, which made me more tiring, and exhausting.
4. How could I have improved my process so that I would have been more effective?
First, I would plan how far I would do with my project. Even though I would get a better idea, I wouldn’t change it. Second, I would never ever forget to cite any sources I use. Third, I would make a list of what to do and what I don’t have to do. This way, I will be organized and won’t have problems messing up my project. Finally, I would always check with what I have to do and see if the assignment I am doing is correct. If I can always memorize this and never forget to do them, I can get a good grade and have a comfortable way of finishing my assignment.
5. Did I effectively create an age-appropriate presentation and game for the elementary students? (please explain how you know it was appropriate or how you could have changed it to be more appropriate)
I believe I had an appropriate information for younger kids. But I thought that wasn’t enough, so I also made a bonus Archery game. Only one group did my actual game, and the rest of the audience didn’t even read my persuasive letter or play the actual game. They were only interested in the archery game. Worst of all, they wanted candy so badly, that I had used up all of the candies and I still didn’t have enough for everyone. So what I am thinking, I would suggest my teacher to have an assigned group to each topic. Then, the assigned audience can view only one of our projects and games. That way, we can get a limited amount of prizes since we know how many people is going to be view our projects. They will also play the real, informative game since they were assigned to do it. What I am saying, is that we have to have a assigned number of people to view our projects.