Reflection ~ Ben Grossberg

In our last PYP unit of inquiry ‘Where we are in place and Time’ has been the best unit this year. I think it is the best because we got to use our creativity and many other skills to make what we want.

It was also a good way to develop our communication and partner skills. Jordan and I did a blog that allowed us to communicate in more ways. Here is the website: http://benjordaninvent.blogspot.com/ This is of our whole invention journey.

I think the blog was a great way for people to track our invention and for us to keep track on everything. The blog motivated us to keep on going and I very easy to use. After learning about blogs I have decided to use one for my robotics next year. I believe that in future years both a scrapbook and a blog should be used for this inquiry. The main advantage of a blog is that it is fast and easy to use and is very convenient.

Although our invention was not completely successful, I still enjoyed it and learnt a lot. I think it was a great way to finish the year because it is the most fun and keeps you focused till the end of the year.

I think that the invention building helped our problem solving skills as there were many problems. In my opinion the reason our invention did not work was because we had a major problem that we worked around. Going around the big problem gave us many little problems and once we had fixed all of them the big problem came back to us. Once I realised this there wasn’t enough time but I think it was still great. Our invention was made to meet the requirements of an office worker.

When I first heard the unit of inquiry I didn’t think about it or understand it much, but now I have realised that it links in with everything about what we have done in this unit. I think that the line ‘Inventions evolve to meet people’s requirements’, means that inventions have changed through time to meet the requirements of people or other living things.

In conclusion, I believe that this has been a great unit of inquiry maybe the best ever. I think that it should be continued for years to come and I will definitely be using the skills I have learnt in the future.