Portfolio Reflection - Trimester 2

Throughout this trimester, my wheel subject was GLOBAL ISSUES. I have learned many things about conflicts, disparity, barriers to development and how to make the world better. This class was unusual because everything we learn keeps changing, sometimes it feels challenging because we are only 7th graders and the problems seem so huge for us, we realized that many of the issues we discussed actually had no answers, we tried to be environmentally friendly and use no paper and we learned about issues and also had a role in educating other people in the MS too. Other classes are not like this.

The SCHOOL WIDE LEARNING RESULTS all apply to this class, however I feel that LIVING ETHICALLY fits best. Some things that we did to live ethically were to:

• Challenge the Friday Flash paper copies
• Trying to reduce electricity
• Looking at our MW carbon footprint and trying to replant trees
• Organizing AIDS DAY activities, raised money and make people more aware
• We donated food to Haiti through www.freerice.com 
• We played simulation games about sustainable farming and life in Haiti
• We spoke in front of the school about AIDS and MALAYSIA WEEK

and many other things!

My portfolio reflection for this class is below:

For our portfolio, Vidya and I decided to make a poster. We decided to have a border of words, showing what we have learnt and how we have felt throughout this course. In the center of our poster we put a picture of a globe with a banner across it saying "Collaborating Constructively To Change The World". I wrote this to link to our SLRs. I chose collaborating constructively because I believe that in this class that is what we were doing. We had many class discussions and spent a lot of the time working on our action projects. Such as the trees project, the AIDS day project and the Friday flash project. Through all of these I learnt a lot about the world.