Term 2 Week 9 Reflection

In Week 9, we have done more touch ups and editing for our oral script. We hope that we can make it in 20 minutes as our script is quite long. This is the final component of IPW that we have to do and we hope to do it to the best it can be to score better marks for it.

Done By:

Darryl Teng (7)

2I Group ACE

Term 2 Week 9 Worksheet

This week, we have done our script on our oral presentation. We were fortunate that we prepared this oral presentation script earlier and not totally rely on our xtranormal videos to present for us. We also included in some touch ups in our presentation and we strive to make this 20-minute presentation interesting and engaging. We may still have to edit it a little but so far this is the script that we had done.

Click here to download the Oral Presentation Script.

Term 2 Week 7 & 8

There will be no updates on the worksheets and reflections for week 7 and 8 as there are no instructions uploaded on the GRACE website and as these two weeks are the most crucial weeks for our Mid Year Exams, we will not do anything for IPW for these two weeks and instead concentrate more on our exams.

Term 2 Week 6 Reflection

As it was getting closer to our SA1, we feel that it was more important for us to revise for our mid year exams as it took up a percentage of the overall results in our Secondary Two year. As it was our Sec 2 streaming year, we also put our minds mostly on our exams. We will quickly get back to IPW once the exams are over.

Done By:

Zhi Khong (6)

2I Group ACE

Term 2 Week 6 Worksheet

For this week, we have only edited our final presentation script by stating the names of the different members who are going to talk about different parts of the keynote presentation and including in the keynote presentation some transitions so as to make the presentation more interesting. We did not do much for this week as it was getting closer and closer to our SA1 exams and we would like to concentrate more on our exams.

Term 2 Week 5 Reflection

As we have accidentally deleted the photos and pictures we have used in our presentation, we could only upload our final keynote presentation and xtranormal videos in this week's blog post. We have also done our script this week for the final presentation, but have not really rehearsed and we still need to edit it. We hope to finish editing and rehearsing as quick as possible, so that we can concentrate more on our SA1 exams.

Done By:

Reynold Chia (5)

2I Group ACE

Term 2 Week 5 Worksheet

Click here to download the Keynote final presentation.

We will be using this for our presentation.

Also, Click here to download the videos we have used in our presentation.

We have also done our oral presentation script. We will be rehearsing it by next week.

Term 2 Week 4 Reflection

After the whole tiring week of Week 4 in Term 2, we have finally done our report on our project. It can be downloaded from our post named "Term 2 Week 4 Worksheet". As we have already tried our best, we could only write out a total of 2000+ words. As we have no idea left on what else to be put into the report, we have asked our supervising teacher, Mr Ganesh, that if we could stop after we have reached our limit at 2000+ words. We were exhilarated as he told us that the report was fine as 2000+ words was already our limit and hence agreed about us just hitting the 2000+ words in our report. We included details such as introduction of group members' names, acknowledgment of our teachers, survey findings, contents and other stuff to add into our report. Other than the report writing for this week, we have also thought more about our "backup plan" for presenting our keynote slides out live. We will start rehearsing by next week if we have time.

Done By:

Ekaphat (8)

2I Group ACE

Term 2 Week 4 Worksheet

Report Writing

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Term 2 Week 2 & 3 Reflections

Week 2 and 3 Reflections

As we have a combined worksheet for Weeks 2 and 3 for our IPW, I and our group member index number 7 have done this reflection together and to post it on the blog as one reflection. Basically, for this week we are trying to improvise more in our final presentation and by adding our group member's names for introduction and some preventive measures that both the government and us citizens should take, we have made our project presentation more interesting. After this, we still have to prepare our oral presentation. As our group so far has only done xtranormal videos to present our project, we still have to assume the worst and prepare if all of the group members in the group have to go out live on the stage to present. If we only have xtranormal videos to support us, we do not think that the judges will be impressed as well, as everything is done in the computer and have no live people to judge on their courage to present and their capability. Hence, we will make the necessary preparations for a backup plan.

Done By:

Chong Zhi Khong (6) and Darryl Teng (7)

2I Group ACE

Term 2 Week 2 & 3 Worksheet

For this two weeks, we are trying to include more components into our final presentation in Keynote as recommended by our teacher. We have done the main points such as the demonstration and the survey, however, we have not included in some stuff like introducing our group members and as we only demonstrated the effects of road accidents, we have not come up with solutions to prevent these accidents and hence we will include them by these two weeks into the presentation. We also have not included in some significant Xtranormal videos to present the presentation such as in the solutions for preventing road accidents and the introduction of group members. We will quickly sort out all our loopholes in our final product by this two weeks in order to write a detailed and presentable report during Week 4. We hope that through this product, we will further reduce the amount of road accidents that are happening each year to protect innocent lives from being lost.

Term 2 Week 1 Reflection

For this week, as it is the start of Term 2, our turns of writing reflections on the blog will be reset. This means that we will start again by having index no. 5 to do Term 2 Week 1's reflection, index no. 6 to do Term 2 Week 2's reflection, and so on.

We have not done much this week really, as we have already done the survey weeks ago and hence have just shown our results, tabulation and conclusion for this week's worksheet. We will instead use the time we have together to maybe add more xtranormal videos into our final presentation and practice our oral presentation, as we may have both types of presentations, both through the computer's voice and our real live speaking to present our final findings.

Done By:

Reynold Chia(5)

2I Group ACE

Term 2 Week 1 Worksheet

Actually we have already conducted our survey on road accidents during Term 1 Week 10, and have also tabulated the results into a bar graph for analysis using Microsoft Excel. However, we still need to present conclusion for this week's blog post and hence here they are.

Hypothesis

Road accidents happen not only because of bad weather but humans are also at fault too.

Survey Questions

1) Can we prevent road accidents from happening during bad weather?					Yes/No
2) Do you think bad weather affects road accidents?					Yes/No
3) Do blind spots on roads also cause road accidents?					Yes/No
4) Do you think humans are responsible for some of the road accidents?					Yes/No
5) Is drink driving related to road accidents as well?					Yes/No
6) Do you think using handphones when driving affect road accidents					Yes/No
too?
7) Afterall, do you think "human faults" really cause road accidents?					Yes/No

Tabulation of results

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Conclusion

Almost all of them think that humans also affect road accidents, including the bad weather. However, we cannot conclude and convince everyone that humans do affect road accidents also and hence we have decided to make a simple demonstration next week that will be reflected on our final presentation.

March Holidays

For this holiday week, of course, we didn't just let go of our project and started playing madly, we still had to do our IPW project. Hence, we decided that we meet up at one of our members', Ekaphat's, house, to do our final presentation for our project. We also had to do our music project there together as we were in the same group too. Fortunately for us, there was rain that day and we managed to take some photos of our toy cars with the rain effect for our demonstration for our final presentation, even though we got quite wet. We also included in the transitions and videos required for our Keynote presentation. Soon, we got everything done and went home at around 5pm.

Term 1 Week 8 & 9 Worksheet

We are sorry for the late post, as we were concentrating on our examinations.

Term 1 Week 10 Reflection

In week 10, everyone in the group are all busy playing. However, before the March holidays, our group ACE had planned to meet up at a place to complete the final presentation. After further discussions and meetings, our group has decided to meet up at one of our group members’ house to do the project. We decided to use some materials like toy cars and some rain effect. After which we got everything done, we will start to use Keynote to present our final presentation. Until now, the group will rest for the project.

Done By:
Zhi Khong (6)
2I Group ACE

Term 1 Week 10 Worksheet

Hypothesis

Road accidents happen not only because of the weather but sometimes humans are at fault too.

Survey Questions 1) Can we prevent road accidents from happening during bad weather?					Yes/No
2) Do you think bad weather affects road accidents?					Yes/No
3) Do blind spots on roads also cause road accidents?					Yes/No
4) Do you think humans are responsible for some of the road accidents?					Yes/No
5) Is drink driving related to road accidents as well?					Yes/No
6) Do you think using handphones when driving affect road accidents					Yes/No
too?
7) Afterall, do you think "human faults" really cause road accidents? Conclusion Road Accidents Survey Results					Yes/No

Term 1 Week 8 & 9 Reflections

Week 8

The Common Test was near the corner and the whole group had decided to put a stop to all preparations temporarily till the examinations were over. We concluded that we would start preparations immediately once the examinations were over and carry on from where we left off.

Done By:

Ekaphat (8)

2I Group ACE

Week 9

As our common test ended at Tuesday, we immediately went back to our project on Wednesday by conducting a survey on our classmates. We used Microsoft Excel to do our survey. The data will be computed into a bar graph by next week for it to be used for our final presentation. There were some students who didn’t take our survey seriously when they did them and hence we stroke off these surveys and focused on those who really did our survey seriously. The extras that were left were given out to our relatives to finish them.

Done By:

Reynold (5)

2I Group ACE

Term 1 Week 7 Reflection

We are now considering to do a simple puppet show or demonstration on our final presentation instead of an experiment with lego products as we fear that it may be too expensive and may also not really look good. We have also planned the materials that are required to do this demonstration and who are going to provide them. We hope that this will go through smoothly and will not have that much difficulties to face as our exams are nearing and we have to concentrate on them.

Done By:

Darryl Teng (7)

2I Group ACE

Term 1 Week 7 Worksheet

Term 1 Week 6 Reflection

Our group, Ace, has finally figured out what to bring for the experiment. We planned to finish the experiment by next week. In this experiment, we will change variables according to the main point of the experiment. In this week, we will separate the job by asking each member of the group to bring specific materials for the experiment. We will also post the survey on the blog next week and the experiment as well. The experiment will be presented in i-movie form. In the experiment, we will use control cars as vehicles and the road as the road. The experiment will show real life consequences as road accidents happen. Please note that the experiment will also include the faults that people did and not only the weather. Tune in to the next update to the blog about THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WEATHERS AND ROAD ACCIDENTS.

Reflection Done By:

Chong Zhi Khong (6)

2I Group ACE

Term 1 Week 6 Worksheet

Project Planner A

What do we have to do?

- Experiment

- Survey

- iMovie

Who will do it?

- Everyone (Experiment & Survey)

- Reynold & Zhi Khong (iMovie)

What resources will we need?

- Control car, water, water bottles with holes on the cap, traffic light toys and the real road (Experiment)

- Internet & People (Survey)

-Macbook, IT skills and IT teachers (iMovie)

When do we start?

- 20th Feb 09 (Experiment and iMovie)

- 17th Feb 09 (Survey)

When do we complete it?

- 20th Feb 09 (Experiment)

- 19th Feb 09 (Survey)

- 23rd Feb 09 (iMovie)

When was it completed?

- 23rd Feb 09 (Experiment)

- 19th Feb 09 (Survey)

- 23rd Feb 09 (iMovie)

Project Planner B

Detailed tasks

- Camera-man (Darryl)

- Narrator (Zhi Khong)

- IT (Reynold)

- Setup (Ekaphat)

Resources

- Camera (Camera-man)

- Ideas from group members (Narrator)

- Macbook & IT teachers (IT)

- Materials from all group members (Setup)

Project task Allocation Form

Detailed tasks

- Survey Questions (Due date: 13th Feb)

- Survey (Due date: 20th Feb)

- Experiment (Due date: 20th Feb)

- Analyzing both experiment and survey in iMovie form (Due date: 23rd Feb)

Taking Stock

What have we done so far?

We have done lots of reflection by each of our group members. We had also decided what topic that we wanted to do for our IPW project. We had also figured out what to do for our project. We had also thought about our survey questions relating to our topic.

What do we want to do next?

Now we are going to do the survey and prepare the materials for our experiment. We had decided to present our work in the form of iMovie.

What have we learnt?

We have learnt a lot about the topic that we are doing for in our IPW project. As we go in depth into our project, we discovered many interesting facts. After that, we will apply both our general knowledge and the interesting facts that we had found to our project.

Term 1 Week 5 Reflection

For this week, we have roughly brainstormed on what are we going to do for our final product. We will be doing 3 things- A survey, experiment & an iMovie presentation. As our topic is "Relationships between road accidents and weather", we will be conducting a survey on a number of people in a fixed area about road accidents during bad weather. We are thinking about the survey questions already so that we can focus more on the experiment and iMovie presentation next week. For the experiment, we plan to take a toy car (Eg. A hot wheels toy car) and test it out of different types of surfaces which are created by the influence of the weather. We will go into more details next week as we fill in the project planner. We will put in all our results and data we get from the experiment into the iMovie to make the final presentation.

Done By:

Reynold Chia (5)

2I Group ACE

Term 1 Week 4 Reflection

This week, we researched more and got a better understanding of our topic. We now got a rough idea of what we are going to do for our final product and we have started making plans for the following weeks. So far, I think that our group has done a tremendous job during this project and I believe that at the rate we are going, we are really going to excel in this project. We will live up to our group’s name ACE and really ACE this project to the best of our ability. Failure is never an option. As the saying goes, Failure doesn’t mean we should give up, it just means we should work harder.

Reflection done by:
Ekaphat(8)
2I Group ACE

Term 1 Week 4 and 5 Worksheet

Decision for our final product

1) Do survey

2) Results from survey on table form

3) Make experiment

4) Do conclusion

5) Project to be presented by iMovie

Term 1 Week 3 Reflection

What I know

I know that we need to think of question to lead us to the right path.

What I think

I think that it is not easy to think right question for the topic that we are focusing on.

What I want to find out

I want to find out more question that can help out in our topic.

What I can do

I can do more research and analyze the topic to produce more relevant questions.

Reflection done by:

Darryl Teng(7)

2I Group ACE

Term 1 Week 3 Worksheet

Project Proposal Form

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Guiding Questions about our topic:

-Reynold Chia

1) Can we prevent road accidents from happening during bad weather?

2) Other than rain, are there other types of bad weather that affect drivers when they are driving?

3) Should we advise drivers not to drive during bad weather to prevent further road accidents to be happening?

4) Why do road accidents still happen even though the government has advised drivers to drive slowly when it is raining?

-Zhi Khong

1) Why does bad weather affect road accidents?

2) What kind of bad weather cause the worst road accident?

3) Can road accidents occur in normal weather?

4) Is it the plainly the weather's fault that road accidents are happening?

-Darryl Teng

1) Is drink driving related to road accidents as well?

2) Which types of bad weather do road accidents occur in the least?

3) Do humans have faults during road accidents as well?

4) Do road congestions cause road accidents too?

-Ekaphat

1) What kind of bad weather will affect drivers the least?

2) Is there any kind of bad weather that will not affect drivers when they are driving?

3) Do blind spots on roads also cause road accidents?

4) Which type of bad weather do road accidents occur in most?

Term 1 Week 2 Reflection

What I know

I know that our project topic is relationship between road accidents and weather and our group name has been decided. Its name will be ACE.

What I think

I think that our schedule is very tight nowadays. We have our own different CCAs, and we have a lot of assignments to do too. We begin to have difficulties meeting up with each of the group members to do the project together.

What I want to find out

I hope that the research that we will do will help us to find more information about our topic.

What I can do

We can start to do research individually as we do not have much time left.

Reflection done by:

Zhi Khong(6)

2I Group ACE

Term 1 Week 2 Worksheet

Knowing what we have to do...

Lets answer these questions in sequence.

1) What is our topic?

Our topic will be relationships between road accidents and weather.

2) What do we already know about the topic?

We already know that rainy days affect drivers when they are driving as there is less friction in between the car's tyres and the road due to the rainwater.

3) What are the questions we want to ask about this topic?

Is there any more kinds of weather that affects road accidents?

Can we prevent these road accidents from happening?

4) What are the subjects/skills we can make use of?

The subjects/skills we can make use of are Physics and Geography.

5) Where can we go to find information on our project?

We can find information from library books, google and also have to rely on ourgeneral knowledge.

6) What do we want to prepare to tell others about our project?

We prepare to tell others how dfferent types of weathers affects different types of road accidents.

Term 1 Week 1 Reflection

What I Know

I know that we will need to co-operate together in this project throughout. We will also have to hand in our work in time. Handing our work in time will prevent us from losing marks.

What I Think

I think that each of us will take turns to do the reflection in each week after the IPW lessons. We should also talk and discuss problems we might have during the project. I also think that if we do come into disagreements, we should not shout or scold each other and discuss over the matter calmly.

What I want to find out

I want to find out how do we make our final product interesting and appealing to both the young and old. I also want to find out a theme to start our project.

What I can do

I can find out from the internet past experiments or tests done by other people to get an idea to do our product.

Done by:

Reynold Chia(5)

2I Group ACE

Term 1 Week 1 Worksheet

Task 2 (Group formation)

Our group name is ACE.

Our group name means that our group can excel in this GRACE project hopefully.

Our group's motto is WORK HARD AND PLAY HARD.

Introduction of our Group members

1) My name is Reynold Chia(5). I am a good member of the group because I am dilligent.

2) My name is Chong Zhi Khong(6). I am a good member of the group because I am responsible.

3) My name is Darryl Teng(7). I am a good member of the group because I am persistent.

4) My name is Ekaphat Mathiprechakul(8). I am a good member of the group because I am hardworking.

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