Recently we had a showcase for our Project Utopia, our Utopia has been a giant project that we have been working on across terms 2-3. This project was filled with trial and error, learning and flearning and, a lot of fun. We learned about liveability factors, global goals, and the process of making our constitution in Humanities little did we know this would play a big part in our soon to be Utopia project. In Science, we made a sustainable house, when we returned from home learning. This would be vital for our Utopian society because we need to implement these sustainability strategies in our Utopia. In English, we practiced public speaking skills to help us gain confidence on the stage. And finally, in InnovatED we worked on planning our whole Utopia and building our Co Spaces.
What we could have improved on. Looking back on this project there is a lot our group could work on. For example, we left a lot of our work to the end. Spreading the work out and being more efficient would have caused less stress in the end. In the showcase our group faced a couple of problems, a minor problem was one of our visual aids braking. Another being our video clashed with our booklet making it confusing for the guests. If we had made the booklet have the same order as our video this probably would not have occurred.
Although we had our fair share of problems, we also had many positives. We both spoke confidently and clearly making our showcase experience better. This attracted many people to our station meaning we got asked more questions and met new people. We both found the presentation ran smoothly (other than the video clashing and the booklet braking) we had no technical problems and did not mess up while speaking.
Since this project was so big there is bound to be opinions (dislikes and likes) about our experiences making our Utopia. I really enjoyed the fact that we worked on this project in many subjects. I liked this because we got to learn more about different aspects of creating the perfect Utopia in a shorter amount of time. I did feel like looking at some of the Utopias it got a bit repetitive. Maybe if we could use different programs to make the Utopia (with the teacher’s permission) then the designs would be a lot more original and less repetitive.
Skills and capabilities, I have picked up during Project Utopia. With this much learning came a lot of new skills and capabilities that the year 7s have developed, every group had a different experience in this project so the skills we have picked up differ for all the students. I managed to pick up leadership skills and creativity skills. I had to take a lot of responsibility and leadership in the week upcoming to the showcase my partner didnβt show up, now because this was the upcoming week to the showcase I had to take action and make decisions for the group I also had to prepare the script if my partner didn’t show up for the showcase (which thankfully didnβt happen) I also gained creativity skills because making a utopian society from the blue is quite difficult. From building the city to thinking about all the ways we could make our Utopia society as livable as it could possibly be, It took a lot of knowledge and creativity. We were able to display this creativity with Co Spaces.
Overall, this project has been a roller coaster of learning and creating and I hope to use the knowledge I have learned in this project in the future.