My (Jordan) reflection

The last unit of this year ‘where we are in time and place has without a shadow of a doubt has been the most exciting and mind based unit throughout this whole year!!!


This is because we have been tuning in, finding out, sorting out, making connections, going further and taking action. This has lead us to many new skills and interesting information for life. At the beginning of the term the central idea was almost a blur with all of those words for me (almost as if the words were Shakespearean!!!), but now doing many tasks and experiments to understand what the central idea meant. I now completely understand it, it’s clear as a crystal.

The central idea for this UOI is: Inventions evolve to meet people’s requirements.
The way I understand this central idea is I think that when an inventor invents something he does it to make the way of living and recreation not only easier but usually also more enjoyable to use and do.



Experiments (tuning in, finding out and sorting out)

At the beginning of the unit we conducted experiments in our pairs that we would later make our invention with. At this early stage the majority of us had no idea what the outcome may be for not only what the experiment’s conclusion may wrapping up as but also how we might use the product of the experiment or an adaptation of it in our invention. As time progressed we had decided through many methods from common sense to through the process of elimination of what we should do given the information provided?


Our invention (making connections, going further and taking action.)

I believe we went through 3 ideas until we hit this great idea of revolving (like a Ferris wheel- more mention later) document trays. We hit this idea when we were in class brainstorming word like change. One of these words was reorganisation, this was probably the main word that helped us finalise the guidelines of our invention.
On this note we also made a blog that we used to constantly update what has been happening and anything we have done in class that has been about inventors to the evolution of a sport. The URL address for this blog is: http://benjordaninvent.blogspot.com/


Lastly, this has been a very skillful Unit Of Inquiry leading to less success in the end for us than others but effort and learning have been an over arching reining theme for all. It should be continued for many years to come to bring the opportunities for others as it has done to us.