by Milly and Sassy SB

The Central Idea for the Exhibition this year is ‘People use creativity and innovation to solve global issues and support the sharing of the planet’.

So far in the Exhibition the Seniors have been focusing on one of the four lines of inquiry. These are:
1. The rights and responsibilities to share finite resources with all living things.
2. Communities and the relationships within and between them.
3. Access to equal opportunities.
4. Peace and conflict resolution.

First we brainstormed what we already knew about the lines of inquiry so we could choose the ones we wanted to focus on a bit more.

We generated questions to guide us through the Exhibition and our research. We have been researching these questions in our reading sessions and responding to them in our writing sessions.

In Maths sessions we have been looking into Data Representation so we can interpret information related to our inquiries and represent data that we have found in a more organised way. To help us understand our inquiry more we have been searching up data related to our problem and then analysing it, or we can also research our own information and make our own graph from the information we have found.

Members of the school community have been holding workshops for things we need to focus on more.

Workshops are when a group of students go to another area and meet a teacher to work on their point of needs throughout the Exhibition. These workshops are based on different things such as How to create a prototype, research skills, the end presentation, solutions people have already come up with to help our problems, time management skills, book covers etc.

Before the workshops the students came up with ideas for what they would like to see the workshops focus on.

The feedback so far has been that the workshops have been very helpful.

At this point of the Exhibition we are learning about how to design prototypes that can help to solve our issues.

We are researching the design process and what goes into designing prototypes.

We are looking forward to what’s to come and showing you our final presentation!