How It Began:
It all began with an English assignment that included reading a book named “The Giver”. The purpose of this book were people living in a perfect world, with strict rules. This connected with Fremantle Port as the port was getting a new design. A few weeks later, the whole cohort went on a field trip to Fremantle Port to have a look around. We couldn’t see the whole place as the sizing was really big. Everyone got put into a group to create a vision board about their perspective of how they would like Fremantle Port to look like. Fremantle Port had to consist of many topics to make the space liveable, some topics are: housing, transportation, entertainment, culture and more. It also had to include global goals, Once everyone finished their group vision board, we had to present to the parents that came in. I wasn’t there due to COVID-19 so I couldn’t experience how it went.
Vision Board:
Model Section:
It was a new term which meant we got new groups, instead of creating a vision board each class got a cut out map with pieces that were separated. The piece that my group got was the top left hand side. My group mainly focused on greenery, since most of our piece was covered in water. Our main idea was to create a nature walk along the slim section that leaded up to the light house. To create this idea, we expanded the width of the slim section. The nature walk will include a variety of different plants from different countries. Each plant will have a small facts section, such as the origin or life span of the plant. This will open up learning opportunities about plants and the country it was originated from.
Experts:
Throughout the term on different weeks, some experts came to visit our school. They had a brief introduction saying their name and their occupation, and sometimes their knowledge such as housing. What’s special about these experts is that they all have different knowledge about different topics, which makes it more valuable. Each week during InnovatED there would be a group of experts around 3-4 people come in and share, each expert had different information in that group. But next week a similar group from the previous week came in, to make sure that 1 group didn’t have 3-4 people with the same knowledge about the same topic.
Presentation:
For the presentation we had to present our model piece, and a model that our group had either physically or digitally created. Our group decided to create it digitally, we created it on Co-Spaces. We only created a small portion of the nature walk. To only give an idea of how it would look like. Each group spread out in the room and got a table each to display their presentation and model(s). The presentation didn’t have to be long. 1-2 minutes for each speaker. My groups presentation took around about 4-5 minutes.
Conclusion:
The presentations were great, my group had a lot of feedback and questions that we were able to answer. Having the help of the staff and experts were a great help! This project was very creative and got our minds to think of solutions and ideas. In the end the project was a success and gave me a lot of new knowledge and skills about certain topics.