Planning My Work for Term 2

Planning:

Term 2:
Week 2 - Have started researching about the musical instruments in Africa and collected some useful information that is suitable for my WISE project

Week 4 - Start to compose the book "Lost Instruments of the World" (for example: select a notebook to complete my project in, begin decorating the title page and the world map) and continue researching about Africa

Week 6 - Finalise the information about the African instruments, start researching about the Asian musical instruments and continue decorating my book for the project

Week 8 - Continue researching about the Asian instruments and finish decorating the title page

Week 10 - Finish researching about the musicals instruments from Asia and start researching about the instruments in Australia

*Any work that has not been completed throughout the term would have been caught up during the holidays.

If all of the above has been completed then I have done half of the hours I needed to dedicate to the WISE project :).

Journal

14 April 2010

Term 2 has just started and I'm excited to start my WISE project. I haven't had any new ideas since the last time I posted but I have completed the planner which was handed to the teacher last term. The planner is as follows:

Title: "Lost Instruments of the World"

Goal: To educate everyone (especially musicians or students that are interested in music) about unique instruments from different countries

Relevant Curriculum Framework Dimensions:
- Reflective Thinking
- Stewardship to the Community

Final Product: The final WISE project would be a book that provides information and interesting facts on many different instruments around the world (which the majority of people would not know about as they are not well known). The target audience would be made aware of the book through emails that would be sent to the students. A quiz would also be attached to the back of the book to assess the knowledge the readers gained from reading and provide corrective feedback on whether or not the book was found interesting and informative at the same time, depending on how much the readers get right on the quiz.

Habits / Skills:
- Organisation
- Time management
- Internet and library research
- Referencing (how to create a bibliography correctly)
- Book design
- Self analysis of thinking skills and learning habits

20-30 Hours:
- 4 hours of research on the musical instruments in Africa
- 4 hours of research on the musical instruments in Asia
- 2 hours of research on the musical instruments in Australia
- 3 hours of research on the musical instruments in Europe
- 2 hours of research on the musical instruments in North America
- 2 hours of research on the musical instruments in South America
- 1 hour of book design
- 2 hours of drafting the whole project
- 1 hour on quiz

My goal in term 2 would be to maintain organised so that I would not panic when the WISE project is due at the end of term 3. I would like to keep working on my project every week except in the weeks I would need to be revising for all the tests and doing my assignments so that I would not have to do my whole project in a couple of days. If I am behind in my WISE project I would just finish the work during the 3 week holidays. Hopefully my strategy would work out and I would be able to keep up to my "schedule" and improve my organisation skills.