week 3 and 4 reflections.

We researched about global warming and its effects o the internet. I learned alot while doing the                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           research and had alot of fun too.  I learned that we humans are the main cause of                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              global warming and that it is a terrifying thing as it is destroying earth. I've learned the                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   ways of helping to prevent global warming and play my part to save the earth.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Kenko Tan (33)

Week 3 and 4 reflections.

We started doing our card game by doing research on the effects of global warming . So as to                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Branch out the contents of the game . 

1)We are creating a weather card game.

2)We know that weather affects everybody.

3)How does the weather affect everybody? What can we do to prevent adverse weather.

4)Geography, Science and reading weather tools.

5)The internet, books and the NEA.

6)We tell them first about the project, then they learn as they play.

Our Weather Game

Our Weather Game

What The Players Would Learn After Playing The Game?

1)     They would learn about global warming, acid rain and more.

2)     They would learn what causes them and if they had contributed to the outcome of such weather.

3)     They would also learn how to prevent it

4)     They would learn ways of doing things differently and how this would help save the earth.

What Is The Game about?

1)     Each family is made of up 4 cards.

2)     The aim is to match all the cards of one family e.g. If you have the card on global warming, you have to find the other three cards which are

a.     The prevention of global warming,

b.     What is global warming and

c.     What triggers global warming.

3)     If you got all these four cards, you now have one complete family. 

4)     At the end of the game, whoever has the most families is the winner of the game.

5)     The game is to help players understand about different forms of weather and how we can make do our part to save the earth.

6)     It also teaches the players what each global warming effect would do to earth and how it affects activities of all living creatures on the earth.

What are the rules of the game?

1)     Each player take turns to place a card in the centre of the table.  Whoever wants the card can take the card and the person who placed the card in the centre can draw another card.

2)     When a person has three cards already and the last card he needs is placed on the centre of the table, he/she has to shout the name of the weather family e.g. “Global Warming!”, “Acid Rain!” or whatever weather family they are forming.

3)     If two people want the card, the card goes to whoever have the most of that family gets the card first.

Weathers the game may be going to cover on:

1)     Global Warming

2)     Acid Rain

3)     Hail Storm

4)     Earthquake

5)     Cyclone

6)     Flood

7)     Wildfires

8)     Volcano Eruption

9)     Landslides

10)  Snow and Ice

11)  Avalanche and many more.

Week 2 Reflection

After our lesson, Mr Varella gave us some ideas on our group topics and we searched back and forth for a good topic that we were all confident of.

We settled on the weather game topic and so Mr Varella asked us to go home to find a way to make the game interesting. I think that the weather game is a good idea and Mr Varella has given us some very good ideas for our card game. I hope we can find a day where everyone can get together and discuss about it.

Glenn Teo(34)

2Francis

week 2 reflection

Timothy tan(35)

 We had to choose a topic we wanted to do and then discuss whether the topic would be suitable for us. Our project was to check for weather conditions which would affect the activities of frogs living at East Coast Park. The project was not successful as after three trips to East Coast Park where the frogs were supposed to be, we could not find a single frog to observe.

So we decided to change the topic of our project and design a weather card game instead.  This project will help educate the players to understand and learn as they play the game on how to protect and prevent more damage to mother earth.

reflection on week 2 lesson

Marc Wee (36)

after the lesson we were supposed to go experiment on frogs to see if there were more of them when it was raining or when it was sunny. Mr. Varella explained to us that if we wanted to do the experiment, we would have to go to the exact spot where all the frogs are and observe the frogs for a few consecutive days and a few times in one day to confirm our readings.

Reflection on the first IPW lesson

Marc Wee(36)

  After the first lesson, the teacher(Mr Varella) told us that our group will create a card game that has the main idea of the environment, Mr Varella also said that the gameplay of it can be like UNO or any other type of card gameplay we can think of. I was really happy to hear that and can't wait to start on it.

  As the leader of the group, i will plan and arrange when we will meet and discuss what to do about the project and  see to it that we hand in every assignment before the deadline. I will prove to my group members that they did not make a wrong choice by appointing me as their leader.

Reflection On lesson 1

Timothy Tan(35)

  For the first lesson, i learnt that we had to pick up different skills along the way if we wanted to score in the project. 

  I also understand the meaning of "GRACE" and what it is about. There can only be one leader in the group  and we chose Marc to be our leader. 

  We must learn to discuss and agree on who will take up what kind of task. Once we have agreed on our duties, we must complete our individual duties so we will not let each other down. 

Reflection On First Lesson

Glenn Teo(34)

For the first lesson, the teacher briefly went through what G.R.A.C.E. was about again and that it would be included in our end of year results too so we told each other that we had to be serious about the project and not fool around. 

Reflection On First Lesson

Kenko Tan(33)

For the first lesson we thought of the name and motto for our group. It was quite fun as we came up with lots of weird and fancy ideas and in the end, we could not think of a better team name then "Iceberg VS. Volcano". So we shall settle at this name at the moment.

GRACE

Hey! This is our group's blog for GRACE. Our team members are Kenko Tan (33), Glenn Teo(34), Timothy Tan(35), Marc Wee(36).