Favorite Benchmark
My favorite
project was a project we were given that was like we were helping Obama. We had
to get a lot of data to back up and argument about issues facing the United
States. Then you had to make a speech in which you would “present” to congress
about the social issue that you choose which you thought was facing America. I
think it’s my favorite because of how the project was presented to us along
with what we actually had to do. The project was just interesting. Let me tell
you what you had to do. What we had to do was find something that we thought
would be worth to bring up to the president. Then we had to find the statistics
to about 20 or so data variable. So like states, race, ect. But something that
had a lot of numbers.
What I wound up choosing was community service hours. So I looked up for all fifty states how much people who didn’t wish to volunteer got paid per hour. Then I compared that to the population, minimum wage, per capita income, and if they officially spoke English or not. I found this not only to be doing as my project but also being able to look up this information and work with it. Then the other fun part of it was having to write the speech in which “if chosen” you would recite to President Obama. So yea definitely the funniest project and the project that was coolest and most open that we got to do.
Core Values:
Inquiry- I asked what was something that I find interesting and that would be useful to use in the project. Also if i would be able to apply the things that we had learned in class to help me with my data once collected and that would let me accomplish all that was required.
Research- I had to find all the data. The amount which people got paid,
population, minimum wage, per capita income, and if they officially spoke English or not all per state.
Collaboration- I asked some classmates for help with calculations and Mrs. Thompson for help with where to find the data and doing the math.
Presentation- I put it all in excel and then made a keep note to present to her and show all of my work and research.
Reflection- We had to talk with Mrs. Thompson about the work we did. Then from that we had to explain our process and present to her our work in the method we chose. Also had to discuss any question she may had have about our approaches or what we learned or became more skilled in with this project.
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