- What is the project you have been working on? What are the success criteria for the competition (i.e. how will your video be assessed)? You may like to include a link to your video at this point (you can upload your video to Microsoft Stream).
Our video: https://allsaintswaedu.sharepoint.com/:v:/s/8Science2022WZ-8W-LeahKatherineSaskia/EVJpD25T6ZFGsaT6HST-n2QBpBn1qVCc_IhNEqo4ZjlhbQ?e=dsrZa5
At the end of Term 1 and the start of Term 2, we split into groups to make a video for the Science Sleek Geek Competition. The theme for the competition was ‘Change’, so we composed our video on the topic of climate change. The success criteria for the competition assesses how effective our video was in communicating scientific knowledge and how entertaining it was.
- How did you organise your group? Did each person have specific roles? Did each person have the opportunity to contribute their ideas? How would you improve your work in this aspect if you had another opportunity to repeat the project?
Our group consisted of 3 people – me, Katherine and Leah. Although we didn’t concretely agree on roles, we naturally assigned ourselves tasks based on our strengths and circumstances. For example, I was away for a few sessions, so Katherine and Leah wrote the script and storyboarded, and when I came back I did the editing of the video. I believe each person had the opportunity to contribute their ideas: we collaboratively brainstormed on an online document. We ran into one problem when working on the project: we collected inaccurate information on the causes of climate change. We could improve our work if we had an opportunity to repeat the project by checking the sources of our information again.
- Did your group have any disagreements? What strategies did you use to resolve these conflicts? How would you improve your work in this aspect if you had another opportunity to repeat the project?
Our group did not have any disagreements. I think this was because we were already good friends as we chose our own group members and we had similar priorities for the project. Everyone agreed on each idea easily and we all contributed to the project using our individual strengths.
- How did your group manage your time? Did you finish the project on time? How would you improve your work in this aspect if you had another opportunity to repeat the project?
Our group managed our time efficiently and we finished our project on time. We allocated time to do each task of the project (e.g. brainstorming, production, etc.) accordingly up to the due date. I edited on the weekends to save time. In some of the first few sessions of working on our project, we weren’t very focused on our work. We could improve our time management by diving straight into work and tackling the largest tasks that needed to be done first.