JAKE'S PORTFOLIO

This year in science and Language arts I think I grew in persistence. A project that helped my growth was the Plate Tectonics project. For this project I was paired with a partner. My partner and I had to make a model of how the plates making the Red Sea move and work. The model had to show how the convection in the mantle makes the plate move. Then we had to also color code it when we covered our model in duct tape. For example the mantle had to be red and ocean crust had to be black. We also had to make the plates scale. We knew that the ocean crust is a thinner layer of crust than continental crust. When we made our model we also had to have a paragraph explaining stuff about our location like plate movement, plate boundaries, convection currents, ect. We started off by making different sentences about our location with different sentence types. The sentence types were simple sentence, compound sentence, complex sentence, and compound-complex sentences.

 

My first artifact is our first rough draft of our model. This is where we put our ideas to the test. I had to really persist to make the model accurate. For example on our draft we had the continental crust way thinner than the ocean crust but I know that continental crust is thicker than ocean crust. I kept trying different ideas on how to make the continental crust be thicker while the model still worked. To do this I kept trying different ways to make the plates slide and on our final model you can see that we added deep channels for the plates to come down in slide in and this gave us the room to be able to make the plate thicker so that it was accurate.

 

My second artifact is the final draft of our model. In the final model we had to cover it all in duct tape. The colors of the tape represented the different crust and layers. I had to persist in covering the main part of our model in red because it was the mantle. I also had to make sure the bottom part was thicker than the crust combined because to scale our model we would need to show how the mantle is much thicker than the crust. I also persisted to make the arrows of the convection current because the arrows couldn’t go in full circles because our model was scaled down and only showed the upper pater of the mantle.

 

My third artifact is the first draft of our location paragraph. My partner and I had trouble coming up with all the sentence type that we were required to have. What we did is we kept making sentence that had to do with our location but when we did that we had a lot of simple, complete, and compound sentence but we didn’t have any compound complete sentences so what we did is we took one of the compound sentences and one of the complex sentences and put them together until we got our compound complete sentences.

 

I can use persistence in the future for jobs I have, for example, I want to be a English teacher in China but to do that I have to keep trying and practicing Chinese so that I can communicate with the people in China.

I can improve my persistence in the future by practicing it with school work and using it whenever I can.