SLC March 19th, 2015 @ 7:40
Good morning and welcome to the second SLC of my sophomore year. Unlike the rest of my SLC's, I decided to take a different approach, HOHAM. HOHAM stands for Habits of a Heart and Mind. I will discuss how I used these habits throughout my classes and projects.
SELF ADVOCACY:
I am a student who is accountable with high expectations. A main project we focused this semester in both STEAM and Math was the Catapult Project. This project had students researching catapults to later create their own. My major role in this project were the calculations. I had to gather calculations the day of the launch (height, width distance of ball launched, and time). Using these known numbers, I had to calculate different types of velocities. Since we were in a group, we decided we only needed one set of work. So of course being a math freak, I calculated all the calculations we needed and graphed our parabolas(http://shanycardenasdp.weebly.com/data-collection.html). Along with that, our teacher wanted us to show our WHOLE PROCESS on our digital portfolio. Everything we learned from day one she wanted displayed. So since we all had the same notes, I had to scan ALL my work onto my digital portfolio and send them the scans (http://shanycardenasdp.weebly.com/classwork1.html). My group trusted me that I would do all the calculations correctly and that I would scan everything chronologically and neatly.
INTELLECTUAL CURIOSITY:
In STEAM, we have a Design Thinking Methods. First to empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test, and revise. All of these were used in the process of the catapult. Together as a group we came together to understand what we had to do, started brainstorming together, sketched and built prototypes and then built our actual catapult and revised it along the way. One thing I got from that is the value of the group members. We (two out of fours of us) originally had the idea of the ballista. When they returned, we decided that a crossbow ballista was a better option. Collaborating and accepting other people's ideas was what made this project really successful.
SELF ADVOCACY:
I am a student who is accountable with high expectations. A main project we focused this semester in both STEAM and Math was the Catapult Project. This project had students researching catapults to later create their own. My major role in this project were the calculations. I had to gather calculations the day of the launch (height, width distance of ball launched, and time). Using these known numbers, I had to calculate different types of velocities. Since we were in a group, we decided we only needed one set of work. So of course being a math freak, I calculated all the calculations we needed and graphed our parabolas(http://shanycardenasdp.weebly.com/data-collection.html). Along with that, our teacher wanted us to show our WHOLE PROCESS on our digital portfolio. Everything we learned from day one she wanted displayed. So since we all had the same notes, I had to scan ALL my work onto my digital portfolio and send them the scans (http://shanycardenasdp.weebly.com/classwork1.html). My group trusted me that I would do all the calculations correctly and that I would scan everything chronologically and neatly.
INTELLECTUAL CURIOSITY:
In STEAM, we have a Design Thinking Methods. First to empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test, and revise. All of these were used in the process of the catapult. Together as a group we came together to understand what we had to do, started brainstorming together, sketched and built prototypes and then built our actual catapult and revised it along the way. One thing I got from that is the value of the group members. We (two out of fours of us) originally had the idea of the ballista. When they returned, we decided that a crossbow ballista was a better option. Collaborating and accepting other people's ideas was what made this project really successful.