Homes & Settlements
Name: Amina AL Naama
Date: Sunday May 12, 2013
Wow and wonder
My favourite part of this unit was when we watched the videos about the
different climates.
Unit progress chart
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progress in this unit.
Need a lot of help
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Key words
Describing climate regions
Designing homes for each climate region
Using complete sentences to describe
homes
Explaining how the environment affects
our homes
Working as a group
Working on my own
MYP Areas of Interaction focused on in this unit ( look at unit plan)
The AOI focused on in this unit is environments.
Learner Profile characteristics used to complete this unit
The learner profiles characteristics used to complete this unit are thinker and
communicator.
Technology used in this unit
The technology that was used in this unit was when we watched the videos
and when we had to research the temperature of the climate.
Individual Reflection: WHICH CLIMATE DO YOU PREFER AND WHY?
GIVE THREE REASONS WHY YOU HAVE CHOSEN YOUR
FAVORITE CLIMATE. USE SPECIFIC EXAMPLES FROM
THIS UNIT AND YOUR WWW TRIPS.
Use your answer to also explain about what you have learned from this
unit. Think about the 'bigger picture' of the overall exercise, including ideas
about climate regions and their homes.
Climate Chosen: Tropical
Reason #1 (3 -5 complete sentences):
One on the reasons why I chose to work on tropical climates in this
unit is that, I liked how the houses looked in the video and when I saw the
video I liked the way they used an insect net to keep the insects away from
them when they are sleeping.
Reason #2 (3 -5 complete sentences):
The second reason is that it was the easiest type of house to label.
That is because I knew almost all of the labels and it was easy for me to
label the tropical climate house in the test.
Reason #3 (3 -5 complete sentences):
The last reason why I chose to work on the tropical climate for this
test is that it was easy for me to draw the house the right way and draw all of
the details in the house such as the mosquito’s net and the farm and many
more things.
What have you learned about homes, settlements, climates,
environments? Think BIG PICTURE and ENDURING
UNDERSTANDINGS? What do you think will be important to
remember about this topic for the rest of your life? (3 -5 complete
sentences)
I learned that each climate has a house that fits to it such as tropical
climates and polar climates and all of the other climates. I also learned each
and every single house is located in a settlements that would protect it.
And next…
I could improve my work by working hard to fix all of the mistakes that I
got according to my teachers feedbacks.
Anything else you would like to add? You can reflect on how your Week
Without Walls experience also influenced your knowledge of this unit.
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Teacher’s comment