Nhea's 2 minutes to make a difference reflection

1 -

Please relect and talk about the changes you made between the first and final cut of your movie. Were the student comments helpful in making your final cut better?

How did you find your expert? List 3 important points your expert added to your movie. What did you learn from your expert?

How did you find your expert?

If you did not find an expert tell us why you were unsuccessful. Be honest.

What was your greatest success in the 2 minutes project. What skills will you take away with you and use in the future?

What frustrated you during the movie making process? What strategies did you use to become successful?

Why is the 2 Minutes project important to Grade 8 Students?

How will you make a difference in the future?

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2- well our first cut wasn't really our first we had about 4 or 5 before we got to a certain point where we were satisfied enough with it to put it up as our first cut. We had taken out many parts and pictures we even re-filmed the scenes because they were to long in the beginning. But some changes me made from our first cut to our final cut was picture additions, timing, spelling, the removing of some unimportant parts and pictures of actual obese people. The comments made by the students helped a lot actually, we were able to find out what needed to be fixed, what needed to be added and what need to be given more time to be seen.

3 - Finding our expert was actually very simple since he attends Laura's church. 3 important things our expert added to our video was 1) he justified our storyline considering our topic was obesity caused by depression, 2) he added a little more interest to a not so interesting part of our video and 3) his expert opinion showing that our information wasn't complete baloney.

4 - We found our expert through one of our group members Laura because he attends her church.

5 - Well for me our greatest success would be how our video turned out and the "skills" I used to put the video all together weren't really skills they were more like learning processes through the entire film I learned how to make an entire video out of movie clips, pictures and a song and even though the process became frustrating at times it was all worth it because I learned new things and made something I'm really proud of and I think what I learned may come in quite handy in the future.

6 - Again something that frustrated me was the editing for the movie since I was doing most of it on my own considering moving our project from one computer to another wasn't an option. I found that sometimes during the process my computer would shut off because it was being used for so long so all my work would be gone and that was really frustrating because my hours of work became a complete waste. But I got over this frustration quickly because I knew my team was counting on me to put our video together well and I couldn't blame anyone because I volunteered for the position myself so I found that if I just took a little break for a while and then got back to work my frustration was put to ease.

7 - I think it's important to us because it shows us all these different problems in the world and how our lifestyles can cause these problems, and how we can solve these problems with the simplest acts by donating money, food and clothing, exercising more often and even walking to different places instead of driving, etc. It teaches us not to be selfish and sit down and just look around to what is going around us since being teenagers we become self absorbed and we don't care to look around to see what problems other places are involved in.

8 - I will try to make a difference be doing whatever I can, like walking to school more often to help the environment and donate my old clothes to charity instead of throwing them out, eat healthy and exercise and maybe one day even save a stray dog from the street to prevent it from being harmed by abuse.

Please relect and talk about the changes you made between the first and final cut of your movie. Were the student comments helpful in making your final cut better?

How did you find your expert? List 3 important points your expert added to your movie. What did you learn from your expert?

How did you find your expert?

If you did not find an expert tell us why you were unsuccessful. Be honest.

What was your greatest success in the 2 minutes project. What skills will you take away with you and use in the future?

What frustrated you during the movie making process? What strategies did you use to become successful?

Why is the 2 Minutes project important to Grade 8 Students?

How will you make a difference in the future?

label your post 2minutes2010, reflection

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Nhea's Growing Post 3/24/10

A)



B)To get the answer to this Question -

All you have to do is multiply the first number (4) by the numerator (1) but the demoniator always stays the same so you would get the answer (4/2) then you have to simplify if possible (1 2/2).
C)To Answer this question -All you have to do is use a picture (or number line) to determine the answer. Using a picture all you have to do is make a square. The number of squares going down is the same number as the single number (2) and the squares going across is the same number as the first denominator (4). Then shade in the the number of the single number (2) and use a different colour to shade in the number of the numerator (1) over the already shaded part to get your answer (1/8)

D) To answer this question -
All you have to do is shade in the number of squares that match the single number, 5, then use a different colour to re-shade the number that is the numerator, 1. Then you would get 1/15 as your answer.
Part 2

Fractions

Nhea's Surface Area Growing Post

Rectangular Prism

Draw a Rectangular Prism

Draw its net.

List all measurements on the drawing and on the net.

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• Draw a Rectangular Prism
• Draw its net.
• List all measurements on the drawing and on the net.
• 
• What formulas do you use to calculate surface area?
• - top = l x w- 13 x 2 = 26
  
• - side = l x w- 7 x 2 = 14
• - front = l x w- 13 x 7 = 91
• Calculate the surface are of your rectangular prism.
• - tsa =26+26+14+14+91+91=262 cm

Triangular Prism

• Draw a Triangular Prism
• Draw its net.
• List all measurements on the drawing and on the net.
• 
• What formulas do you use to calculate surface area?
• -Triangles- bxh/2 = 7x8/2= 28 cm
• - lxw = 9x1.5 = 13.5 cm x2 =27 cm
  
• - lxw = 7x1.5 = 10.5 cm
  
• Calculate our the surface are of your triangular prism.
• - tsa = 27 + 10.5 + 28 + 28 = 93.5 cm
  

Cylinder

• Draw a Cylinder Prism
• Draw its net.
• List all measurements on the drawing and on the net.
• 
• What formulas do you use to calculate surface area?
• - 5/2=2.5
  
• - 2 × (π × r2) + (π × d × h)
• - 2 × (π × 2.5x2.5) + (π × 5 × 28)
• Calculate our the surface are of your cylinder prism.
• - S.A. = 2 × (19.62) + (439.6) = 478.84 cm
  

Nhea's Scribepost for, Surface Area Questions 5 and 11 2/17/10

11. An injured bumblebee sits at a vertex of a
cube with edge length 1 m. The bee moves
along the edges of the cube and comes
back to the original vertex without visiting
any other vertex twice.

a) Draw diagrams to show the
bumblebee’s trip around the cube.

b) What is the length, in metres, of the
longest trip?

8 arrows
x
1 metre per arrow
=
8 m in length

Nhea's Ratio Scribepost, 2/2/10

7. A herd of 100 caribou was moved to a new location. The population increased by 10% the first year and then increased by 20% the second year.

a) Find the population after the second year.

First year - 100 / 10 = 10 = 10%

-100 + 10 = 110

Second year - 110 / 10 = 11 x 2 = 22 = 20%

-110 + 122 = 132 b) Explain why there was not a 30% increase in population over the two years

The increase was not by 30% because the 20% was worked in after the 10 percent was already placed, making it 132.

11. A student is awarded a $1000 scholarship and places it in an account that pays 3% simple interest per year.

a) What is the total value of the scholarship amount at the end of the second year?

First Year - 1000 / 10 = 100 / 10 = 10 x 3 =30 = 3 %
-1000 + 30 = $1030

Second year - 1030 / 10 = 103 / 10 = 10.30 x 3 =30.90 = 3 %
- 1030 + 30.90 = $1060.90
b) What is the single percent increase in value of the scholarship after two years?

(3 % = 30) + (3 % = 30.90) = 60.90 / 10 = 6.09% after two years

Pg.105-Question 12 1/5/10

For those that can't see whats written the question was.... 12. The hypotenuse of the triangle cuts the circle in half. What is the diameter of the circle? Express your answer to the nearest tenth of a centimetre.

And the right answer was 8.60 cm

Nhea and Brianna's Pay it Forward 12/8/09

Part 1 -

To me Pay it forward is a powerful and depressing tale of how a child, as small and damaged as Trevor is, can make a huge change in the world just by wanting to help his mother. The part that touched my hearts of the most the story of his teachers past and the past behind the burns he wears on his skin. The fact that some parents are so messed up that they will beat their own children and then to go as far as lighting them on fire while their still alive, is horrible. Bet what I want to know is if it is really the parents fault. With Trevor’s mom and her drinking I would blame her mother and the influence that she had on her daughter. I’m happy that Trevor made the choice to help his mother stop drinking and start her life all over. With that one idea his act spread across the world. But the sad thing is that his attempt to help further cost him his life.

Part 2 -

Brianna and I volunteered at my old daycare, for a few hours after school. Brianna, Laura and I had decided on going to a soup kitchen, but our schedules never seemed to match. Then we decided to babysit for free but then, the babysitting thing didn't happen, and Laura did something different. So it ended up just being Brianna and I. I came up with the idea to volunteer at my old daycare since I was going to volunteer there in the summer anyway. We decided on this because Brianna and I love hanging out with kids, especially when the kids aren’t related to us. We helped out the staff with normal stuff like looking after the kids and cleaning the tables after snack time. We looked after the kids, Played with them, helped with crafts and helped them with their shoes, small stuff like that. We even read to them a bit. We did our act of kindness at 4:00 on Tuesday, December 8, at Busy Bee Daycare.

Part 3 -

Our act of kindness went really well. We got to do something that we like and have fun doing it. What happened was we showed up at the daycare at 4 o'clock and asked the staff what they wanted us to do. We hung out with the school aged kids for a while, but then we were sent to help out with the smaller kids. I felt great about our act of kindness we had fun and we got to do something that we plan on doing later on in life, like babysitting and family stuff. The kids didn't react differently, I think they just thought of us as older friends they could play games with. I didn't ask anyone to pay it forward because most of the kids were only 4 and under, they probably wouldn't be able to do much.

Part 4 -

The idea of Pay it forward is important because if everyone would pay it forward, people would start to realize that others cared and maybe there would even be less crime and violence.

I hope our act of kindness made a difference. We were in a little bit of a rush to finish this project and at first that's all it was, a project. But then we helped as much as we could at the daycare and it felt really good to feel like if we told them to be quiet and listen, they actually would. I hope that some -maybe all- of the kids will volunteer at the Daycare too when their older. Brianna and I also advised them all to apply to Sargent when their older!!