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Rainforest Tours Day 3 Final Reflection

1. In class I learnt many skills and knowledge  that I applied to my teaching in my final tour. First of all, one of the skills that I learnt in class and applied to my teaching is to look really closely into the rainforest, and to notice what is happening there. For example, we looked really closely, and spotted a snake, a nice green crested lizard, and also a few cotton hoppers. This managed to get our audience more interested and excited by showing them harder-to-see things. In addition, some more of the skills to keep the audience engaged were to keep them excited. For example, to start off the camouflage part of my tour, I jumped out of the bushes to grab their attention.  In addition, I used examples that the audience (3rd and 5th graders) would know about. Furthermore, some knowledge that I used was about the strangler fig, which was the highlight of my tour.

2. I lacked some skills or knowledge in the first tour, the most important was the details about some of the plants I talked about, for example how long it took to grow, or what the scientific name of a plant (strangler fig) was.  I wasn't really sure how to answer a few questions, for example, "If the strangler fig is a vine, why is it called a fig?" I found out that it was a vine that usually strangled a fig tree, which explained why is was called a "strangler fig". I improved for subsequent tours by researching more and finding out more information in case an unusual question came up. What I would do differently next time, if I ever had to do another tour, would be not to make the whole presentation too boring, and to add more exciting parts to it, and not to ramble on too long, as people tend to loose interest.

3. I will take what I learned about making talks more interesting from the class activities to use in my life outside of school or other subjects, for example presentations, or if I need to show people something and I need to make it interesting. I will also make sure I am well researched and get the audience engaged and excited by involving them and allowing them to discover interesting ideas/facts such as special facts about a snake or lizard.

How I contributed to Rainforest Knowledge

My best spotting:http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/1242316005

My other spottings:http://www.projectnoah.org/users/aidens1

1)  I developed my skills as a scientist over the course of the rainforest project field work by really looking closely at the animals around me. Some examples to prove this are my project noah spottings, which include pictures of hard-to-see animals, and also just me looking closely at different plants.

2)The strengths in my field work was I was really observant, but also some of my weaknesses was that I didn't look at the "bigger picture". 

3) For future researchers, I think I should recommend not to go around the rainforest like a tourist, but to actually listen and to watch your surroundings carefully. 

Rainforest Tours Reflection 1

1) I think that the strengths of preparing the tour was that we were prepared to speak well and had done research, but the challenges was that sometimes the kids might get disinterested, and it was hard to think of ways beforehand to deal with that.
2)The strengths of me giving to tour was that I kept them interested and they learnt quite a lot, but it was a little frantic today as it was the first time giving the tours. I think the audience got quite a bit out of the tour, but more out of the "camouflage, mimicry, and warning colours" because it was more interesting.
3) I think what I need to work on next time is to get the plan sorted. I will do this by setting a map so we know exactly where to go, instead of going in circles instead of going from bottom to top. 

Pictures for Science Topics

Fungi

Human Impact to Wildlife

Diseases on 

One of the differences of the SAS rainforest and the Dairy Farm Rainforest is that the Dairy Farm Rainforest is bigger and hence has more plant and animal life. It also has clear differences between canopy, emergent, understory, and floor, as unlike the SAS rainforest, there are tall trees. However, one of the similarities is that both the SAS and Dairy Farm rainforest have been impacted by humans, so the secondary rainforest is just starting to become primary again in both areas. 

2nd Semester ITN Goal

Mr. Derksen's 1st Semester comment was this:

Aiden’s ITN presentation was on conflicts between China and Japan over control of the East China Sea. He used his GP as a tool for explaining his topic. He had a strong understanding of this issue and the connection to our government unit. Aiden also did a great job of speaking instead of reading about his topic, but can continue to work at looking at his entire audience. Next time around, he should highlight his article according to the directions and fill out the goal section of the ITNDOC.

MY GOAL:

My goal is to fill out the "goal" section of the ITN doc and to drop the ITN article highlighted into the drop box. 

STEPS:

I will do that by reminding myself to drop the ITN documents. 

How is Demography Related?

I think demography is extremely important in my life as when I have grown up, I will need to know which country to go to, for example Japan for better health care (as they have lots of older people that they need to take care of) instead of India with too many people. In addition, I if I wanted a job as a doctor, Japan would be better because of availability of jobs, but if I wanted to be a teacher, India would also be good as there are lots of kids. However, the population of Japan is decreasing, and there are not many schools, so it would be hard to have kids.

PE Ted Talk

What I Learnt From Nutrition Unit

What I learnt about fats is that there are many different types of unhealthy and healthy fats. One type of good fat is monounsaturated fat, and polyunsaturated fats, which are beneficial to your body. However, there are also a lot of bad fats which are trans-fat, and saturated fats. 

What I have learned about sugar is that there is more than you expect in all foods. In Mountain Dew, there are 16 teaspoons of sugar, which means that you are taking your whole day’s dose of sugar in one hit. Sugar also gives you a high, which causes you to feel happy and full of energy, but when it goes past a certain point, you get a low and become tired. I also learnt that sugar comes from carbs too.

I think my snack was healthy as it had no sugar and low salt, and very low oil, and the oil that I used was olive oil. In addition, the filling (which was moroccan beef mince by the way) had barely any oil and had quite a bit of vegetables in it.

When I choose a snack I sometimes think about how healthy/unhealthy it is, but it actually rarely comes to my mind. For example, when I am drinking a soft drink or a bag of Doritos, I sometimes think about it if I eat too much, but if it is just once in a while I never think about it.

I think food is meant to be eaten with other people as when you eat you can have time to talk and socialise with other people. Usually, people get really busy on the weekdays, and if families always have dinner together, it is probably the only times during the week that they can talk.