P1 Project work - Greenwood Primary · animals are endangered and find out what has caused these...

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



3. Our project will be the BEST class project.

Confidence Vision: Motivated Learners


Values: Resilience and Enterprising


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.





7. Our group will get anaverage score of more than75% for C1 (Curiosity).




8. Our group will get anaverage score of more than75% for C2 (Confidence).

Confidence Vision: Motivated 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 – 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.


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.


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.


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.


(more than target. Yeah!)6. Our group will get an average score of more than75% for our Application of Thinking Skills.


(more than target. Yeah!)7. Our group will get an average score of more than75% for C1 (Curiosity).


(more than target. Yeah!)8. Our group will get an average score of more than75% for C2 (Confidence).


(more than target. Yeah!)9. Our group will get an average score of more than75% for C3 (Cooperation).


(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.

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