Evaluation

Evaluation
For my unit project, I decided to create a poster explaining the early times of gum and how it has evolved over the years including by whom it was invented by and how. The aim of this project was to answer the unit question which was “How do inventors come up with ideas and create their invention?” in any way we wanted, i.e: poster, essay, PPP, movie, video, etc. Of course we had to research for some background information and insert the ideas onto the poster, and that is the stage of my project I had a slight difficulty with, which I will mention later. The successful part about my poster is that the fact that the unit question was answered and background information was completed. My final product was colorful and creative and contained the information that was to be contained.
For this summative assessment, as a class, we decided to skip Part B (Design) of the Design Cycle, because everyone was completing different tasks and on different stages. For Part A (Investigation) I researched the inventor of Gum, since that is my topic. My overall research was decent, and when I thought that I had what I needed, then that was when I moved on to the next step; Part C (Plan).
The Planning of my poster was somewhat easy and complex at the same time. The easy part was the fact no research needed to be done. The hard part was every little timing needed to be thought precisely. In my previous project, I completed my tasks according to my plan exactly, and because my previous plan was such a success, I wanted my current plant paper to be just as decent. Because I lost track of time for the investigation part, I had to crush my Plan into the last 15 minutes of class. Mrs. Wilson told us that each and every one of our plan needed to be handed in by the end of class and I started panicking. I couldn’t think straight and I started to cram everything into the next classes we had. However, when I looked at my Plan posted on my blog when I got home, it actually made sense to me, but still, I decided to do some poster planning on the weekends and that way I would be sure that I would get everything done. I finished my Poster earlier than I planned to and that was the “upside” of my whole project.
Creating Poster
Whilst creating my poster, I realized that I completely put off the unit question and how to answer it. And by the time I realized this, I was halfway finished with my poster, meaning that more than half of the poster paper was filled with who and when it was invented. I panicked again and tried to fit everything in the spaces left. My final product was due in less than 3 days, so I couldn’t start over. And that was when I decided to try to fit the answer to the unit question in the remaining space.
How I crammed my answer to the unit question into less than half the poster was how I earned the grade I got and not the grade I should’ve.