Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Reflections for the end of March to April

We kept changing our final product again and again as we brainstormed further. Finally, we have decided to do on how much pesticide was used to make the ingredients of 100 grams of cookies vs 100 grams of organic cookies ( which we would probably make). Organic food, as you know, has no pesticide at all. So, as we all know that pesticides pollute the Earth and possibly lead to Global Warming, we want to see how the use of good organic food can help save the Earth.

This is what I have done so far:

Research on pesticides used on wheat which is used to make flour

Find ideas on what we should do for our final product

Do the cover page and introductions for our final report

Find out how to make organic cookies


These were some of the products our group has considered for our final product but later decided to scrape:

Soap without chemicals
Selling organic cookies


Some were ideas deemed not feasible, but quite funny:

Hamster electricity
Solar powered torchlight


From this exercise, I have learnt how difficult it is to create a feasible product. We
managed to solve the problem by discussing and brainstorming among ourselves.
With guidance and help from our teacher, we have finally decided on our final
product.

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Summary of all the weeks

We have done quite a bit of work since the last time I wrote on the blog. So in summary, this is what I have done:

1. Helped the group draft the survey qusetions
2. Did some research on our topic
3. Did a write up on what I have researched
4. Looked at the survey results

This is what I have learnt so far:

1. Time management
2. Learnt how to draft survey questions
3. How useful surveys are at finding people's opinions
4. Learnt more about our topic

Problems encountered:

1. Thinking about what questions to be put into the survey
2. What we want to find out in our survey
3. How to go about asking our survey questions

Thursday, January 29, 2009

My First Reflection

We have learnt about the effects of global warming. We have discussed on the questions that we can ask about global warming and are doing research to find out more on the topic.