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HYPOTHESIS - "Teenagers are most likely to develope an addiction of alcohol without knowing the negative influences".

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// "First week" // First week of Research project was very interesting and fun because we had to choose our own topic and also this week we made small group and started sharing ideas of what our research topic is going to be about. What do you want to achieve? The only thing I want to achieve now is to find my research topic and hopefully I will be able to find it by next week. Positives There were lots of positives this week like I started working hard to find my research topic and also this year we were introduced to SACE expectation so now we know what we need to work on. And the last positive this week was Negatives There haven’t been many negatives this week but the only negative this week is I struggled a lot in finishing research.

CAPABILITIES

The aim of the SACE is to develop well-rounded, capable young people who can make the most of their potential. The capabilities include the knowledge and skills essential for people to act in effective and successful ways. The five capabilities that have been identified are: · communication · citizenship · personal development · work · Learning. The capabilities enable students to make connections in their learning within and across subjects in a wide range of contexts. The capabilities are central to Integrated Learning and form the content of the key areas of study. Teachers, in consultation with students, develop a teaching and learning program that focuses on one or more key areas of study. Each key area is based on one of the capabilities, and explored and developed through the guiding questions, which expand the description of each capability. Details of the capabilities and key areas of study are provided in the ‘Content’ section. The capabilities are reflected in the assessment requirements and performance standards of Integrated Learning.

Tuesday 2/2/11 It is my first lesson of Integrated Learning. Our teacher is Mr. Stavliotis (stav). He introduces us to wikispaces. Wikispaces is an interesting page it is a good way of communicating to our class mates. I found that he is a good teacher. On Monday's lesson, we took a quiz to find out what our preferred learning styles were. we gave our results so he can draw up a table to show everybody's learning styles. This would help in choosing our groups. The ideal group would contain one person from every learning style (Dynamic, Innovative, Common Sense, and Analytical Learner). We got our result I came to know that I was a Analytical Learner. I was happy because I came to know what sort of learner we were. Mr. Stav also took our id no. and sent an invitation on our email and everyone created their own account on wikispaces .We had to check our school id and accept the invitation, it was going to be intersting.

Friday 4/2/11 Today Mr. Stav took our id no. and sent an invitation on our email and everyone created their own account on wikispaces .We had to check our school id and accept the invitation, it was going to be intersting.I was not sure about what was to be done so I asked Stav for help and for helping me. He taught me how to create a new page and edit different stuff. Stavliotis. When I had signed up I gained access to many features this web site offers, including editing and creating pages. It also seems discussion topics can be created so that if I have any questions fellow students can reply. Mr. Stavliotis also told us to start on the starter pack this was to help refine ideas and create a topic with suitable questions.Today Mr. stav talked about working in groups I firstly decided to work with Peter Pasca, Hieu tran and Bradley bellemey but because I did not like there research topic I decided to work alone.I decided to work on topic Gandhi and his influence on People.

8/2/11 Today Miss. Miller was relefing Mr. Stav. Today we came to know that she is our permanent relief teacher for the whole term. Today was our last day to finalize our research topic. But i had not finalized my topics and i asked for some extension to Miss Miller.

Wednesday 09/2/2011 Today Izzy came and joined our reseach project lesson and I talked to him for working in a group, he agreed to work with me because he liked my research topic as well. We decided to work in a group. Our topic was Gandhi. I did not have any idea about what should be our focus question. We were confused. I talked to Mr. Stav about it and he helped us with the focus question.He helped us with our Focus questions and he updated it on Wikispacese's home page.

Our FOCUS question was " HOW AREGANDHI POLITICAL VIEWS INFLUENCING PLEOPLE IN MODERN SOCIETY" Our Guiding Question were - 1. GANDHI's TIMELINE 2. HOW DID HIS VIEWS INFLUENCE PEOPLE IN 19 40's and 50's. 3. HOW DID HE HELPED INDIA TO GET INDIPENDENCE.

13th of February 2011 Today Mr. Stav showed us a video on Research Project (Primary and secondary sources) but unfortunately i was not in the class because i had to go to get our Id photos taken. I missed out the whole video and i was not here for the whole lesson but i decided to watch the video at home tonight which was available on our homepage.

Monday 14/02/11 ( [] )

Today i referenced some books because Mr. Stav showed us how to reference books and videos. i had no idea what he was talking about so i personally asked him what was to be done. He helped me by making me understand what was to be done. i references some of thses books-





Monday 15/02/11

Today Miss. Miller is relieving Mr Stav as she is our permanent relief teacher for every Tuesday. We began our lesson by watching a video no Primary and secondary resources, it was very attention-grabbing video and it even gave me many ideas about primary and secondary resources. Primary sources integrated sources like interviews, journals, notes, newspapers and secondary resources are stuff like documentaries, websites, and types of magazines.

18/02/11

Mr Stav introduced us to a website called 'Survey Monkey' which was a website to create surveys. Izzy and me made an account on Survey monkey and started making our survey. Izzy and me were struggling to get as easy as possible questions for our survey so that it would not look complicated but we stuffed up our survey because many people did not know about Gandhi and they had to search for answers on the internet. Izzy and me felt our topic and Survey was too complicated so we made an advanced and better survey but when we did not get much good result then we decided to change our topic, we talked to Mr. Stav about it. He was not actually happy with us because of our decision of changing of topic because he knew that we would have to start everything from the starting and do everything again. We were confused but we finally decided to Research on topic “//__TEENAGE ALCOHOLISM”__//

Teenage alcoholism is the excessive and progressive use of alcohol in adolescents and young adults between the age of 12 and 20. Though consumption of alcohol by people under 21 is illegal, a significant number of teenagers are facing problems of excessive drinking. Most teenagers who drink will often drink too much which will result in Binge Drinking. This is the second level of drinking; it may result in vomiting, car crashing, body damages and many other bad things. Even though both teenage and adult consume alcohol, teenage drink more irresponsibly than adults though I'm not saying adults should drink alcohol and teenage shouldn't. Most teenagers adopt that habit from their parents or the caregivers they grew up seeing around.

Our Guiding questions are –

What is alcohol Abuse? Why do teenagers drink? What are mental and physical healths of alcohol?

Our Focus question is- HOW DO WE EDUCATE TEENAGERS TO DRINK RESPONSIBLY?


 * Everything got too complicated so me and izzy decided to make a small concept map on our topic //__“TEENAGE ALCOLISM”__// ||

// Wednesday // // Lesson 1 [21/02/11] // // “ //[] ”

Today Izzy and I decided to make a concept map. We did not have any idea what to do? , how to do? Why to do? We decided to take help from Mr. Stav to help us making our concept map he helped us by giving us an idea how to make a concept map. He told us to use Web inspiration (software) to make our concept map. I found Web inspiration" a really easy and interesting software because it was an easier way to make concept maps in different ways. Izzy and I started working on our concept map and we finally started our concept map.

22/2/11

Today me and izzy made a new survey on Teenage alcoholism. We didnot know what questions should we have have in our survey because last time we made a complicated survey. I asked Mr. stav for help and we finally finalised our survey questions.

These are question that we asked on our surveys: 1. Do you think alcohol affects human body? How? 2.How old are you? 3. What gender are you? 4. Do you drink Alcohol? 5. How often do you drink? 6. Do your parents drink alcohol? ( optional) 7. When did you started drinking? 8. Does alcohol effect your brain? 9. Do you know what binge drinking is?

We successfully completed our survey and we waited for our result.I was able to complete my survey questions today and posted a discussion post with a link to it prompting classmates to take the survey

23/2/11 Today Mr. Stav introduced "Webspiration to us i found is a really easy and fun tool to use. I might use this software in future if i want to make my concept map. i used this software to my concept map.Izzy already knew how to make a concept map using webspiration and he had already thought about it and made one concept map before but that concept map was on our old topic Gandhi and was not accurate because we did not had any guiding questions and primary or secondary resources on it so we decided to make a new one again. Both of us did not wanted to re-do it but we had to so we started making our concept map. It took us a bit of time but we successfully started making our concept map together.

25/2/11 Working on concept map and today finally we completed our concept map. We knew it took us time but we learnt a new thing and i don't know why but we felt proud of our selves. :)

OUR CONCEPT MAP



28/2/11 Today i was looking at my concept map which i posted on my wall yesterday, i thought that i might have errors in my concept map so i discussed with Mr. Stav about my concept map. He told us that we did not had many errors in my concept map.

1/3/11 Today Mr Stav was away and we had a relief teacher so Izzy and me decided to gather some information on our topic Teenage Alcoholism so we went to library to borrow some books. it took us time to look for books because there were many books on alcohol but all of them were not related to our topic so both of consulted the librarian about our research topic and she helped us finding some books on our research topic. we had a quick look at those books because we did not had much time for the lesson to get over and after school we even went to Charles Stuart library to look up for books which helped us a lot.

2/3/2011 today was sports day and all our lessons were cancelled so we could not do any thing for any subject but still sports day was fun.

4/3/2011 Today me and Izzy thought that our focus question does not make any sense " HOW TO TEENAGERS DRINK RESPONSIBLY" how does it make any sense knowing that half of the teenagers drink alcohol illegally i.e. nearly most of them are underage then why do you want them to drink alcohol knowing its not at all good for health? , so me and izzy decided to change our FOCUS question. We planned to change our focus question.

5/3/11 Izzy and me came up with many ideas for our focus questions we chatted, talked on mobile and came up with 1 final idea that was = " HOW DOES ALCOHOL AFFECT TODAY'S TEENAGE SOCIETY ? "

7/3/2011 Today Mr Stav was talking about our focus question and our hypothesis so me and Izzy thought out it that does out focus question match our hypothesis. WE were a bit confused and planned to change our focus question and we finally changed our focus question from HOW TO EDUCATE TEENAGERS TO DRINK RESPONSIBLY to HOW DOES ALCOHOL AFFECT TODAY' TEENAGERS SOCIETY ? . Mr Stav told us that can edit stuff on our homepage by our selves so we changed our focus question and we both were satisfied and agreed with Focus Question.

8/3/2011 Today we had miss Miller our permanent relief teacher for Tuesday's. Izzy and me were gathering some information on TEENAGE ALCOHOLISM. Miss miller came up to us asking what were we up to to. We showed her our progress and kindly asked her to do our survey for us. She successfully did our survey for us and she complimented on our survey that it was a good survey and it was not at all complicated. We were very happy because we came to know that we were going o a right track.

11/3/2011 During this lesson Mr. Stav told us that he has uploaded our current grades for integrated learning so far. I actually had not done anything till this date ( i COMPLETED my journal after i saw my grades and i updated my journal because i did not had any information on my journal). So far I was on a C for application, D for investigation, C for collaboration and communication and a D for my reflection. I was really disappointed to see my result but at the same time i realized that i actually had not done anythin other that refrencing and concept map on my journal. also learnt about the 4 out of the 5 capabilities that is being assessed in the research project. They were communication, personal development, work and learning. ( BUT NOW I HAVE UPDATED MY JOURNAL).

Mr stav. asked all of us to upload the rubric on our journal.

Performance Standards for Stage 1 Integrated Learning Thoughtful and consistent application of knowledge, concepts, and skills for a purpose. || Thorough and focused identification and gathering of relevant information using a variety of sources. In-depth investigation of information, ideas, and skills from more than one perspective || Sustained and productive collaboration with others. Clear and proactive communication with others. Constructive discussion of ideas and opinions. || In-depth reflection on the student’s own learning and progress in learning. || Thorough, focused, and convincing explanation of some of the connections between the program focus and aspects of the capability in each chosen key area. In-depth understanding and development of aspects of the capability in each chosen key area. || Well-considered application of knowledge, concepts, and skills for a purpose. || Focused identification and gathering of relevant information using a variety of sources. Some depth in investigation of information, ideas, and skills from more than one perspective. || Purposeful collaboration with others. Clear and often proactive communication with others. Thoughtful discussion of ideas and opinions. || Some depth in reflection on the student’s own learning and progress in learning. || Detailed and convincing explanation of some of the connections between the program focus and aspects of the capability in each chosen key area. Well-considered understanding and development of aspects of the capability in each chosen key area. || Appropriate application of knowledge, concepts, and skills for a purpose. || Competent identification and gathering of relevant information using a variety of sources. Competent investigation of information, ideas, or skills from more than one perspective. || Appropriate collaboration with others. Competent and sometimes proactive communication with others. Considered discussion of ideas and opinions. || Considered reflection on the student’s own learning and progress in learning. || Mostly effective explanation of some of the connections between the program focus and aspects of the capability in each chosen key area. Considered understanding and development of aspects of the capability in each chosen key area. || Basic application of knowledge, concepts, and skills, with some relationship to a purpose. || Identification and gathering of some relevant information from more than one source. Investigation of aspects of information, ideas, and/or skills. || Occasional collaboration with others. Disjointed communication with others. Some description of ideas and/or opinions. || Some acknowledgment of the student’s own learning or progress in learning. || Description of some of the connections between the program focus and aspects of the capability in a chosen key area. Some awareness and development of aspects of the capability in each chosen key area. || Limited application of knowledge, concepts, and skills, with some attempted link to a purpose. || Identification of information in one or more source, which may have some relevance. Attempted identification of information, ideas, or skills. || Some attempt to work collaboratively with others. Limited communication with others. Brief description of an idea or opinion. || Limited recognition of the student’s own learning or progress in learning. || Identification of one or more connections between the program focus and aspects of the capability in a chosen key area. Emerging awareness and limited development of aspects of the capability in each chosen key area. ||
 * || Application || Investigation || Communication and Collaboration || Reflection || Understanding ||
 * A || Comprehensive development of knowledge, concepts, and skills.
 * B || Focused development of knowledge, concepts, and skills.
 * C || Competent development of knowledge, concepts, and skills.
 * D || Partial development of knowledge, concepts, and skills.
 * E || Attempted development of knowledge, concepts, and skills.

14/3/2011 PUBLIC HOLIDAY

16/3/11 Today i was looking for my result on survey monkey( my survey on alcohol) and what i came up with was a pretty good result

18/3/11 School had a black out and we could not work on our research projects,so Mr. Stav decided to take an oral presentation of each group on their topic, focus and guiding questions and primary and secondary resources ,mainly we had to talk about our progress. All groups presented their orals, all groups at least talked about 2 minutes on their topic. Me and Izz y went in front of every one and talked out our topic. Mr. Stav Complimented in front of every one that he liked my voice and my confidence in front of the whole class, He liked the way i talked to everyone on my topic for 2 minutes and i felt very proud of my self. :)

21/3/2011 Today me and izzy started began researching our focus question and Mr Stav talked about Scaffold.

23/3/2011 Mr Stav showed us how to use advance search tool on Google search.That was a easier and better way of researching our information.I found it better, easier and faster. thanks to Mr stav. :)

25/3/2011

Working on SCAFFOLD.

28/3/11

Today Mr. Stav was away and we had Mr. Roberts Allen ( i don't remember his name) reliefing him and he talked about bibliography. I interviewed Mr. RObert for our Scaffolding information.Mr Allen help me in my scaffold because me and Izzy did not had any clue what to do in our scaffold.I interviewed Mr. Allen for my research topic and i used that information as a source.After school i went to library to get some books on alcohol and i stayed there for 2 hours to gather some information. The next day i came up with many ideas and different types of information from different resources.I did get information but i was still confused what was to be done in our scaffold.

29/3/11 Today miss miller was away so i decided to spend my time collaborating and communication with my class mates.

1/4/11 Today was April fool day 1st April ,I was confused about the word limit for scaffold I went to Mr. Stav in morning to ask him about the word limit.He told me the Word limit was Maximum 1000 word,i thought he was making fool out of me but he was serious about it, i was worried now because i had to crop 2000 words at least for the background information of my guiding questions.At the same time Sarah and Nhi showed the whole class a legal survey form.In the starting i had no idea what was the form about but after few minutes Izzy explained me everything clearly.

Information About Teenage Alcoholism From Different Sources.

INFORMATION I GOT AFTER ANYLISING MY SURVEY.



Teenage alcoholism.... they work with me at hungry jacks..

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For our research project Izzy and me had 4 guiding question and we decided to do 2 questions each person that is 500 words each person.We got information from different sources for our scaffold. The drawback for scaffold was only 1000 words so Izzy and i had to crop lot of information about our questions.

I decided to research on the questions written below What is Alcohol abuse? AND How does alcohol effect Human Body.

Izzy decided to research on

What is teenage alcoholism?  AND Why do teenagers drink?

Some of the books which helped me in research. i borrowed 4 books from Charles Stuart library and other 2 from school library ,i collected evidence and sources and picked the important once which helped me a little bit in my scaffold. h

11/04/2011 Today i helped Izzy in his journal because he was not able to upload any evidence(pictures).



TERM 2 Week 1

After 2 weeks of holidays Mr. Stav got replaced by Miss. Lawless and she explained what was to be completed for integrated learning.we had to work on our scaffold so me and izzy decided to refine our scaffolds andstart on our presesntation .we divided pur task into 2 parts i decided to work on scaffold and izzy decided to start tht power point presentation. I decided to start a new survey on Teenage alcoholism alcoholism. a Survey related to our Research guiding and focus question so i made a new survey and took permission from miss lawless to go around the school and pick random people who were free to do our survey.I did get the results but they did not gave me accurate results but still they helped us a lot.

TERM 2 Week 2 My main aim this week was to complete my scaffold which we could not do last week.We completed our survey analysis, I also looked at some websites to learn more about Teenage alcoholism. I knew it that we were already late but this week we did finish our scaffold and refined our scaffold questions. now we were just left with bibliography which i completed on the weekend.I looked at the conclusion and thought that it was better to change our hypothesis because it is hard to make teenagers to stop drinking but still we can at least we educate them what are the negative effects of drinking alcohol.

TERM 2 Week 3 This week I was a bit sick so could not really attend school all days so i missed with some of my research but i did make up my mind that i will start my next task as early as possible.

TERM 2 Week 4 My main aim this week was to start my next task because my peer member was not showing initiative towards our research topic, so I myself had to start with my presentation. I planned to make a power point presentation with maximum of twenty to thirty slides.Then I main focused on how to make presentation more attractive and more eye grabbing, so i decided to put some some animations in the presentation. I preferred putting more pictures than more words or else it will make our presentation boring and i mainly focused on how to make the presentation look good.We got introduces to the six thinking hats as well.

TERM 2 Week 5 This week my aim was to finally finish off my presentation now, we were getting ready to present it to the class.

TERM 2 Week 6 Today me and izzy presented our presentation. We practised for our presentation but in front of the class we got a bit nervous but we made sure that our speech was clear had we had a perfect eye contact.No one is perfect nor are we we did make many mistakes but that was the best we could do!!!!! well i am happy with what i did and hope i get good grade because it is about Quality not Quantity :)