Questions to ask yourself

•  Are you satisfied with your learning? 
•  Are you satisfied that you demonstrated your knowledge and skill? 
• How does your work compare to the expectations on the rubric?
•  With which parts of the assignment (project, performance, etc.) were you most satisfied? 
•  How closely does your work on this assignment (project, performance, etc.) reflect your learning? 
•  Why do you think this assignment worked for you? 
•  Were there any parts that didn’t work? 
•  How did you do the assignment/project? Be specific. 
•  Were the strategies that you used effective in helping you reach your goals? o What learning strategies were helpful? Explain. o What would you have to add to learn more, do better, etc.? 
•  On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your effort? 
•  Did the amount of time, effort and strategies used help you reach your goal?
•  If you were to do this over, how could it be improved? 
•  As a teacher, what can I do to help you? 
•  What can I do to increase the value of this assignment/project, etc.?

waterslide challenge

This was our water slide the next time I would make this I will make some changes to it. I would have made the water slide more waterproof by using foil. The cups were not aligned I think that could have been better and for the water slide to be higher from the top. The wood at the bottom was not as sturdy as you can see it is not aligned. Next time I will take in consideration a safer water slide and one that is more waterproof.

Unit 2: Mental Health Reflective Assessment

  Mental health
     "Our youth spend more time in school than they do anywhere else except their own home. School is one of the best places for both educators and students to become increasingly aware of mental health, mental health problems and mental disorders." (Teen mental health) In NEW school our teachers have educated my classmates and I about the importance and awareness of mental health. They have taught us in many different ways and we have showed our knowledge using three subjects English, Science and Technology.  I have showed my knowledge of mental health in different kinds of ways such as my unit project, Romeo and Juliet and science experiments such as cauliflower
brain and the DNA lab. 

     My unit project was about depression, I did a video about the causes and explaining what it is, this falls into the technology class. In order to make a strong message and show awareness about depression I decided to use audio clips of some people who have been in the mental state of depression. In my opinion I think I have showed a strong message and while we did the exposition I got many compliments from parents and I got told my video showed a very strong message. While doing audio clips and editing it made me very emotional and hard to think about how many people are affected by depression. Also in my technology class I made a blog about my passion it is called A passion for soccer I really enjoy doing my blog and writing so my readers will enjoy the blogs. I've been proud of what I have written and excited for the future of my blog and how it can expand. 
  
 
   

   
   

    In English our class focused on the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, reading is not my kind of thing, we made it more entertaining by acting out the scenes. While our class was told to analyze the characters and play, find the literary devices and vocabulary we found out many of the characters in Romeo and Juliet had mental health disorders and this falls back into our unit. In my essay about the mental health of Juliet I did depression and mentioned her moods and how she was brought up by her parents.Also in our English we learned about Shakespearean sonnets and how many lines, quadrants, and how many he wrote.

     Science is always interesting to me I enjoy doing labs this unit we did were a DNA lab and did a cauliflower 'brain'. In the DNA lab we were trying to find out who the murderer of Juliet and Romeo really was, in my group we thought it was her father, Capulet we happened to be wrong. Our lab came across many obstacles because we did not have the right materials to do the lab such as stainless steel wire and having the comb stick to our gel, our data was not conclusive. In order to know who the murderer was we had to use a certain enzyme in order for the DNA to break up except we did not have the funds to get a hold of the enzyme. We also used a cauliflower to label parts of the brain and to know what each function consisted of, the importance of this is because in depression and may also include other mental health disorders is that it can be caused by chemical imbalances in the brain.

     During this mental health unit I have learned the importance of the disorders and why we should be aware of what is happening around us, it can be affecting one of our peers. Unfortunately mental illnesses are very common and I believe everyone should be aware of what could be happening to the people around them. While in this core stress has hit us all students while doing projects and with coping with stress we had an amazing yoga instructor in order stress for us to relax, I really enjoyed the idea and I think it is a great way to cope with stress. I have learned that it is okay to make mistakes in science because us, human beings are fallible and not all science labs are perfect and show the data we are expecting. All in all the mental health unit has been my favorite and I enjoyed learning about it and will take this information with me later on in life.

    

Snapchat dont's- Fun friday

Problem Solving

Making equilateral triangles

we used 6 popsicle sticks to make 4 equilateral triangles.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder- Sebastian Junger’s TED Talk

A disorder of failure to recover after experiencing a traumatic event. Something that surprised me is that it does not only happen to people from the military but it can happen to anyone that has had a terrifying experience.

Symptoms
nightmares, flashbacks, anxiety and/ or depressed mood

• People of higher class have a higher percentage of getting depression.

• In 9/11 the PTSD rates decreased because the city was unified under the attack.

Understanding depression in teenagers

Why is there depression? 

A way of changing ones own environment 

focus cognition 

psychic pain  

Definition of major depression episodes 

depressed mood 

loss of interest or pleasure 

Depressed  mood nearly everyday 

Weight loss or weight gain 

insomnia 

DSM IV major depressive episode 

fatigue or loss of energy every day 

feeling worthlessness or excessive guilt 

diminished ability to think/ concentrate 

recurrent thoughts of death 

significant distress 

is depression a serious problem? 

Depression is 

Potentially fatal 

adolescents with major depression are up to 30% times more likely to die of suicide 

Origins in early life 

affects 9% of adolescents 

Depression diagnosis 

diagnosis should also address 

presence of manic symptoms 

underlying medical causes (e.g. anemia, thyroid disease 

risk assessment 

Depression treatment 

pharmacology

srontin, reputake inhibitors, fluoxtine, sertraline

 60% of young people respond to take an antidepressent 

Depression is a disease 

Depression is probably a heterogeneous syndrome