Progress update 2

As part of our year 10 Humanities course we are able to research a project of our own choice and to create an outcome to showcase at a final exhibition in term 4. My group got assigned geography as our project subtopic. The essential question we decided to investigate is “How do dogs live around the world?”. In this project, we will discover dogs around the world and what jobs they do, what breeds are most popular, the populations, and the different cultures surrounding dogs. We chose this topic as we both love dogs and would be interested in learning more about them. By choosing something we are both interested in, we will be motivated throughout the whole project and produce a good quality project.

My role for this project is equal to my partner as we are splitting each task in half. This ensures that we are both contributing to the project and one person isn’t doing all the work. So far my group has completed an annotated bibliography, made a timeline, wrote a progress update, done reflections up to week 2, planned our final display and started working on the different components of our display. We will continue to divide the tasks evenly throughout the project to make sure we are both contributing equally and are getting all of the tasks done effectively.

The core questions we are going to explore are:

• Where are dogs most commonly found around the world?
• Which dog breeds are most popular in each country?
• What are the jobs a dog can have and what training do they have to go through to get these jobs?
• What cultures do different countries/religions have surrounding dogs?

For our final product we have included a variety of different displays to make our stall entertaining and informative. Each of these displays have information about a different section of our research question giving a wide range of information. The game and small book will include information about jobs, the map and poster focuses on popularity and origins of breeds, the bigger book focuses on the cultures revolving around dogs and the PowerPoint shows different breeds.

During this project, we will be using many capabilities to help us stay on track of time and complete the project to the best of our ability.

Effective communication/Collaboration; We will need to use effective communication throughout the whole project to ensure we don’t overlap our work and that we complete every section of our project. Without collaboration our projects different components wouldn’t fit together and the end result wouldn’t be a high quality product.

Resilience/Problem solving; We will need to have resilience throughout this project as we are going to have to overcome many challenges. We will have to problem solve when challenges appear and work hard to overcome them and complete our project to a high standard.

Organisation; We will need to stay organised for the whole project as we have a lot of work to do and it is easy to fall behind. We will need to use time management to make sure we can complete all components of the project within the given time limit. Without organisation we wouldn’t be able to complete everything to a high standard and would result in an unfinished project.