Post on 04-Jul-2020
P1 PROJECT WORK
Tsunami can cause animals to be endangered
The Young Scientists
Name Group Role Reason
Anne KundanikaChowdary
Group leader She has a lot of ideas.
Maqil Eshan Bin Mohammad Muhaily
Time keeper He knows how to read time well.
Isromses AniolChrisant
Recorder He can write well.
Goh Si En Sheveon Reporter She can speak well.
Lin Eugene Resource Manager
He is resourceful in getting the items.
Zhu Yi Encourager He cheers on others.
Content■ Project Work Introduction
■ Rationale on the choice of project
■ Background on the selection of the project
■ Our Project
■ Our Project Achievement
■ Our Project Innovation
■ Problems Encountered and Solutions
■ Benefits to Our School
■ Impacts to Our Stakeholders
■ Parents’ Comments
■ Reflection
■ Moving Forward
Project Work Introduction
LLP - WHIZZ
School VisionDevelop pupils into Motivated Learners,
Critical Thinkers and Leaders of Character
School MissionNurture pupils into lifelong learners and
responsible citizens.
School Values(WEGR2OW) are Wise, Enterprising, Gracious, Responsible, Resilient and Open
Project Work CurriculumAligned to fulfilment of our School Vision, School Mission and School Values
Alignment of Project Work Objectives to Our School’s Vision and Mission
Project Work Objectives
School Vision School MissionMotivated Learners
Critical Thinkers
Leaders of Character
Lifelong Learners
Responsible Citizens
To apply Thinking skills learnt through authentic experiences.
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To strengthen character and maximise one’s potential.
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To foster greater teamwork and enhance communication skills, which will in turn bring about better relationship management.
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To provide opportunities to exercise autonomy of choice.
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To develop 3Cs competencies (Curiosity, Confidence and Cooperation)
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Alignment of Project Work objectives to school’s values
Project Work Objectives Core Values : (WeGR2Ow)
Wise Enterprising Gracious Responsible Resilient Open
To apply Thinking skills learnt through authentic experiences.
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To strengthen character and maximise one’s potential. √ √ √ √ √
To foster greater teamwork and enhance communication skills, which will in turn bring about better relationship management.
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To provide opportunities to exercise autonomy of choice. √ √ √ √ √ √To develop 3Cs competencies (Curiosity, Confidence and Cooperation)
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Rationale on the choice of doing this project
P1s went on a learning journey to the zoo in term 3.
We saw many animals whose species are becoming endangered, such as white tigers,
Malayan tapirs, orang utans.
We wanted to find out what causes some of these species to be endangered
Our Project Work Task
Task 1
■ What Endangered Us? (Experiment)
■ In what ways would you be able to raise awareness of why some animals like pangolins, Asian elephants and Malayan tigers are endangered?
■ Design an experiment to find out what has caused them to be endangered. You may want to make a hypothesis or an assumption before the experiment. You may then prove or disprove your theories/ beliefs based on the findings from your experiment. Then conduct a survey to find out whether other people agree to your findings. Present the results of your survey.
Scoring System and RubricsGrade Score
A 75% and aboveB 60% - 74%C 50% - 59%D Less than 50%
Components
A: Planning & Thinking Process (30%)
B: Team Work (20%)
C: Product (15%)
D: Oral Presentation (15%) (EL LT)
E: Data Presentation (10%) (MA LT)
F: Reflections (10%)
Linkage of Targets to School’s Vision, Mission and Values
Targets 3CscompetenciesDeveloped
Linkage to Organisation goals
1. We will find out whichanimals are endangered and findout what has caused theseanimals to be endangered.
Curiosity Vision: Critical Thinkers
Mission: Life-long Learners
Values: Wise, Enterprising and Resilience
2. We can do an experiment. Curiosity
Confidence
Vision: Critical Thinkers
Mission: Life-long Learners
Values: Wise, Enterprising and Resilience
3. Our project will be the BEST class project.
Confidence Vision: Motivated Learners
Mission: Life-long Learners
Values: Resilience and Enterprising
Linkage of Targets to School’s Vision, Mission and Values
4. Our group will get anaverage score of more than75% for Team work.
Cooperation Vision: Leaders of Character
Mission: Responsible Citizen
Values: Gracious, Responsible and Open
5. Our group will get anaverage score of more than75% for our overall ProjectWork result.
Curiosity
ConfidenceCooperation
Vision: Critical Thinkers, MotivatedLearners, Leaders of Character
Mission: Responsible Citizen, Life-longLearners
Values: Wise, Enterprising, Gracious,Responsible, Resilience and Open
6. Our group will get anaverage score of more than75% for our Application ofThinking Skills.
Curiosity Vision: Critical Thinkers
Mission: Life-long Learners
Values: Wise, Enterprising and Resilience
Linkage of Targets to School’s Vision, Mission and Values
7. Our group will get anaverage score of more than75% for C1 (Curiosity).
Curiosity Vision: Critical Thinkers
Mission: Life-long Learners
Values: Wise, Enterprising and Resilience
8. Our group will get anaverage score of more than75% for C2 (Confidence).
Confidence Vision: Motivated Learners
Mission: Life-long Learners
Values: Resilience and Enterprising
9. Our group will get anaverage score of more than75% for C3 (Cooperation).
Cooperation Vision: Leaders of Character
Mission: Responsible Citizen
Values: Gracious, Responsible and Open
Our Project – Our Stakeholders
Stakeholders Benefits
Our classmates They are eager to see our experiment and learn about our findings.
Our parents They want to know what we have learnt during the project work.
Madam Ng and Mr Shahrin
They want to know what have we learnt during the project work and checked our understanding of the chosen task.
Primary 1 pupils They can learn how to do an experiment from our project.
Our Project –Brainstorming on possible animals to
be endangered
Endangered animals
Pangolins
Asian elephants
Malayan tigersSea turtles
Polar bears
Sharks
Our Project –Using 5 Whys to analyse the root cause
1st Why: Why are animals endangered?
Reason: There are only a very little number of them left.
2nd Why: Why are there only very little number of them left?
Reason: Too many of them are killed.
3rd Why: Why are there so many animals killed?
Reason: They are killed because of different reasons and not enough of them are left.
Our Project –Brainstorming on possible causes for
animals to be endangered
Causes for animals to be endangered
Poaching by humans
Natural disasters
DiseasesDestruction of habitatPollution
Over hunting
Our Project –Brainstorming on possible causes for
animals to be endangered
Causes for animals to be endangered
Poaching by humans
Natural disasters
DiseasesDestruction of habitatPollution
Over hunting
Our Project – Criteria Setting
Criteria 1:Many animals can be killed very fast.
Criteria 2:No chance for the animals to escape.
Our Project – Criteria Setting
Criteria C1: Many animals can be killed very fast.
C2:No chance for the animals to escape.
Natural disasters
Hunting X
Diseases X
Our Project – Solution AnalysisNaturaldisaster
Possible Experiment Selection of Final Solution
Volcano use coloured water, baking soda and vinegar to create volcano lava to kill the animals
Last year, a P1 class had already done it.
Earthquake break the board to create ground cracked apart so that animals will fall in.
We needed to find a way to break the board.
Tsunami pour water into a tank to create waves to wash the animals away.
We love to play with water.
Tornado,typhoon
use fans to create strong wind to blow the animals away.
We needed to find a way to create strong wind.
Our Project – Hypothesis Statement
■ Tsunami can cause animals to be endangered.
Our Project – Survey Result
Do you agree that tsunami can cause animals to be endangered?
Agree Disagree
25 4
Decision-making of the set-upIdea 1: Fish tank
(+) 1. It is transparent
(-)1. It is heavy.2. It is expensive.3. No one has it.
Idea 2: Aluminium tray
(+)1. It is light.2. It is cheap.
(-)1. It is soft.2. It is flimsy.3. Should anyone step on it, the experiment set-
up will be destroyed.
Idea 3: Styrofoam box
(+)1. It is hard.2. It is sturdy.3. It is strong.4. It is light.
(-)1. It is not transparent.
-3+1 =-2
-3+2 =-1
4-1 = 3
Our Project – Material ListSuggested item Price/
itemActual item used
Amount spent
Styrofoam box (medium size)
$7.00 Styrofoam box (medium size)
Free – recycled
Plastic sheet $2.00 Plastic sheet Free – recycled
Corrugated board
$1.20 Corrugatedboard
$1.20
Vanguard sheets 40 cents
Vanguard sheets 80 cents
Animal toys $5.00 Clay @ $1.50/ea $3.00
$15.60 $5.00
Saved$10.60
Our Project – The Process
To make the slope of the‘shore’, we used anotherrecycled Styrofoam as a raisedplatform. Then, to make thegradient of the slope, we cutout a corrugated board to fitthe box. All the materials arewaterproof.Finally, we wrapped up theinterior of the box with arecycled cloth from Madam Ngso that it would look nice. Thecolour of the cloth also lookedlike the sand at the beach.
Our Project – The Process
Next, all of us used brown andgreen clay to make sea turtlesto decorate the set-up.
Each of us made different sizes to represent the different ages of the sea turtles.
Our Project – The Process
We decorated the set-up with other props, such as marbles and some leaves from the eco-garden.
We also used other leftover clay to make houses. We wanted to make the set-up looked real.
Our Project – The Process
Finally, it was time to test out our experiment. We were all very excited. In order not to wet the classroom, Madam Ng brought us outside the classroom, where there is a drain. We filled up some water with a pail in the classroom. Then, we used a leftover corrugated board to splash the water up the ‘shore’. This was to imagine tsunami waves reaching high and washing the animals away from the land.
Our Project – Video of the experiment
Our Project Achievement
MarksWeightage Percentage
(%)
Raw Score
Percentage (%)
A: Planning & Thinking Process (30%) 16 30 C1 - Curiosity 20 83%
B: Team Work (20%) 8 20C2 -Confidence
16 80%
C: Product (15%) 8 15C3 -Cooperation
20 100%
D: Oral Presentation (15%) (EL LT)
16 12
E: Data Presentation (10%) (MA LT) 6 7.5
F: Reflections (10%)2 5
TOTAL 56 89.5Total Percentage (%) 88
Our Project – Results AchievedOur Targets Our Results1. We will source for the materials that we need forthe experiment.
We found that Styrofoam box is the best choicefor our experiment as it is waterproof.
2. We can do an experiment. We did our experiment and took a video to showothers.
3. Our project will be the BEST class project. Our project is the BEST class project and alsothe BEST level project. (Yeah!)
4. Our group will get an average score of more than75% for Team work.
Our group had an average score of 85%.
(more than target. Yeah!)5. Our group will get an average score of more than75% for our overall Project Work result.
Our group had an average score of 78%.
(more than target. Yeah!)6. Our group will get an average score of more than75% for our Application of Thinking Skills.
Our group had an average score of 76%.
(more than target. Yeah!)7. Our group will get an average score of more than75% for C1 (Curiosity).
Our group had an average score of 80%.
(more than target. Yeah!)8. Our group will get an average score of more than75% for C2 (Confidence).
Our group had an average score of 76%.
(more than target. Yeah!)9. Our group will get an average score of more than75% for C3 (Cooperation).
Our group had an average score of 80%.
(more than target. Yeah!)
Our Project Innovation
■ We were the first P1 class to try out tsunami experiment.
■ We used most of the recycled items for our project.
■ We created a video of our experiment so that it can be played repeatedly when visitors visit our experiment.
Problems Encountered and SolutionsProblems SolutionsWe did not know whatother material we canuse besides fish tank.
We asked Madam Ng and she prompted us byasking us to think of other rectangularcontainers that are waterproof.
We did not know how tostart the experiment.
Madam Ng showed us YouTube video ontsunami experiment to give us an idea. It washelpful.
We did not know how todo presentation usingPowerPoint
Madam Ng taught us how to use PowerPoint.
We did not know how tosave our slides.
Madam Ng asked us to bring a thumbdriveand taught us how to save our slides.
Benefits to the schoolDoing the project We become motivated learners, critical
thinkers and leaders of characters
Others who see ourproject
Will be motivated to try on their ownand will become motivated learners andcritical thinkers
School Other people will see GWPS as a goodschool. Pupils can learn Thinking skillsand be aware of how tsunami can causesea turtles to be endangered.
Impact to the stakeholders
Stakeholders Benefits
Primary 1 pupils Know how to do this project when they are P2.
Madam Ng Thinking skills taught were successfullyapplied by pupils. Teacher had taught us well.
Parents Feel proud of us because our project is thebest!
Us (Team members) Feel proud to do a good experiment thateveryone likes.
Motivated to do other experiments.
We are more confident of what we can do!
Parents’ Comments
“I’m very happy to see good
progress in the kids working together.”
(Anne’s parent)
“Great teamwork and
effort.”(Maqil’s parent)
“It’s a very good experience for the kids to do project
work. They can work together and discuss
ideas.”(Eugene’s parent)
“It’s good to see the effort of individual
put in and contributed as a
team eventually.”(Sheveon’s parent)
“Presentation skill to be
improved in the next project.”
(Zhu Yi’s parent)
“Great work. Appreciate the
effort.”(Aniol’s parent)
Our Reflections“I learnt to find
information online.”(Aniol)
“I learnt that not everything has to be bought. We can use cheaper method to
do our project.”(Maqil)
“I learnt to use brainstorming
thinking skill to list down all the possible reasons and animals.”
(Eugene)
“I learnt to collect data by conducting
survey with my friends.”(Sheveon)
“I learnt that different colour hats represent
different thinking skill.”
(Zhu Yi)
“I learnt to use decision making to choose the best idea.”
(Anne)
Moving Forward
Ideas Solutions
Display in WHIZZroom
• Place an iPad beside our project so that thevideo of our experiment can be playedrepeatedly when anyone visits the WHIZZ room.
• Since we cannot use water for the visitors to trycreating the waves, we plan to use a blue clothfor them to try creating the waves.
Create Awarenessthat sea turtlesare endangered
Put up posters to educate the public that seaturtles are endangered. They need clean beach tolay their eggs. So, we must do our part to keep thebeach clean.
The End