2011-2012 semester portfolio 2

This year is finally Coming to an end. My classmates and I have finished all our projects. This semester we have all done some tough but really cool projects with much work and many assignments for the projects. Having a lot of work is not the fun really cool part of the projects. but it's all good. We all have worked pretty hard, and spent much time on each project.
 

The Pandemic project/Outbreak project was the first project all my fellow classmates worked on first. I have a website (right) http://wshs-pandemic-prevention.posterous.com/. This website was created by a couple of classmates and myself. It has many other links attached to it that talk about preventing a pandemic, or keeping people safe, and how to help the little children and prevent them from getting the disease/pandemic. Another thing our group has on our pandemic page is infromation to the viewers. like Influenza 101. Simple notes and tips to help learn about preventing viruses. The big idea of the project is to learn how to stay safe of diseases and prevent the diseases. Also learned a little about what we are supposed to do if we do get a disease. Some other important things we learned about was the 1918 spanish flu/influenza/bird flu.

 

Another Project my classmates, and I  have worked on is the Race Project. Here is another link to my next project. (Right)  This website was the second project of the sememster. It was a shorter project but still not easy, even though it was not hard either. I did my race project on the Rwanda Genocide. It was race that caused it and the anger of people against other people. For example the Holocaust was like race but it was because of religion so, sort of the same thing. The big idea we learned in this project was how bad a genocide can be. A tradgedy like the Rwanda Genocide, or worst, the Holocaust. Millions of people dead just because of religion, or the color of someones skin. 

 

Finnaly, the last project. The last project we have worked on was the Evolution project. All my classmates and I have spent weeks and weeks of time working on it. My final assignment to the project was a Animoto video and it explains my driving question that I have created and done my evolution work based on answering that question and explaing my argument that I have also created.(right)  To the left is my video. I talk about Evolution of disease and explain how it works in the video. I give examples of Evolution of Disease and my driving question is. Why is the Understanding of Evolution of Disease important?
 The big Idea of this project is that evolution may even be the reason we(us humans)are here. I have learned about evolution and how everthing evolves such as Animals, Humans, bugs, insects, and even bacteria. Have we evolved from a fish? a monkey? if monkey, what did the monkey evolve from? 

These are my Project Pages for each project I have completed.
http://wshsjakes.posterous.com/pages/evolution-project-blog-reflection-page
the link (above) is the project page for the Evolution project.
http://wshsjakes.posterous.com/pages/race-project-page-for-biology
The link (above) is the project page for the short but tough race project.
http://wshsjakes.posterous.com/pages/wshs-project-page
the link (above) is the project page for the Outbreak Project.

Reflection

One of the big ideas I have learned this semester were 
Analyzing aurthers arguments and evidence. That big idea was for the book my class and I were reading called "Your Inner Fish."

Some of my strengths this sememster was staying on task big time! I use to not pay attention but this semester I feel I have done really well with not falling asleep or goofing off with students and stayed concentrated and on task.
Some of my weaknesses this semester were keeping myself from goofing off. I really wanted to not pay attention and mess around with frineds and not do my work, but I did my best at resisting that urge to not work.
My work in this class has changed over the course of the year a lot because I have done a lot more work this semester then I have last sememster.
How can I apply what I have learned in future situations (classes, jobs, etc,)? I can apply all this hard work I have done this sememster and hopefully the job interviews or the classes will like what I have done.
If I had to do over again, what would I change about my work in this class? I would change my final presentation for the Evolution project. Because I diden't do my best on the visual part of the presentation but feel I did really well. 

Grade Argument and Evidence

The grades I have earned for this sememster on these past projects were 2 B's and 1 C. I feel im at a B grade for all the work I have done not just this semester, but this Whole year! I feel I have done really well. I have always got all my work done and done a good job on almost everything. Sure there were a few weaknesses in me that tryed to beat me down and almost stopped me from moving on and keep working. But I kept myself strong and got my work done anyways. 
My evidence to prove my work is all on this link (right) http://posterous.com/# this website is my posterous and has tons of work I have done this semester and last sememster.
I think i have done really well and deserve a B grade.

Thank you for reading my 2011-2012 semester porfolio 2

By: Jake Swain