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You have independently planned and carried out an inquiry based on the concept of sustainability. You were able to explain the cause and effect of rising sea levels and showed critical thinking in your planning for effective social action to address this issue. You planned and delivered a great presentation. One of the better one in the class. The social action had an impact on your immediate community. Great fudge! Did you manage to donate the money to your chosen organisation? Overall, a really good inquiry unit girls. Top marks Final Grade: 5 = Excelling
 * = Date ||= Action ||= Teacher Comment ||
 * < 06/08/09 ||< Created the wiki, made the pages, and made the logo ||< Good start girls! You now need to decide on what topic you want to focus on and start to fill out you knowledge saturation page with what you have learnt in class and for homework. ||
 * < 10/08/09 ||< Decided on topic - Sea levels rising ||< I think this is a good choice of topic- lots of information on it. ||
 * < 12/08/09 ||< Filled out Knowledge Saturation page ||< Really good to see that you have been looking at the webpage and trying some of the activities. Can you think of what you have learnt in class and comment on that. Maybe one of the videos - The Lorax or the Inconvenient Truth. What messages were they trying to get across? ||
 * 12/08/09 || Put titles on most of the pages || Great!!!!! ||
 * < 13/08/09 ||< Finished putting titles on pages ||< Great. Now you are ready to start to formulate your essential questions. ||
 * < 15/08/09 ||< Added to Knowledge Saturation page - The Lorax ||< You have made some good progress on your Knowledge Saturation stage. Make sure you record the sources of information in bibliography. Have you researched the facts or just discussed them? You need to make sure you include facts. It may be a good idea to also set up a glossary page to explain your terms you have come across that relate to your topic. This will show that you understand what you have written. ||
 * < 18/08/09 ||< Added to Knowledge Saturation page- An Inconvenient Truth ||< I have noticed that a lot of your comments are based on your opinions. Please include more facts and back them up ||
 * < 19/08/09 ||< Brainstormed questions ||< You both worked well in class this week. Please make sure that you share the work load around. ||
 * < 19/08/09 ||< Came up with questions ||< QUESTIONING - Some of your questions are well written and relate specifically to your inquiry. You now need to write these questions onto your page and start to hypothesise on them . Make sure you both write what you think as your opinion might be different. ||
 * 19/08/09 || Wrote hypothesises for some of the questions ||  ||
 * 21/08/09 || Put some questions on Essential Questions page ||  ||
 * 25/08/09 || Added more questions and also added some hypothesises || Your hypothesis are a little short. I was hoping that you would go into more detail. ||
 * 26/08/09 || Added rest of questions and hypothesises ||  ||
 * 31/08/2009 ||  || INVESTGATE-Now you are ready to answer your essential questions in depth. Don't just copy and paste the information you find. You need to try and write it in your own words. That will require drafting and editing it so it is what you want to say. Remember to reference any information that you quote directly. ||
 * 31/08/09 || Researched questions ||  ||
 * 01/09/09 || Researched more questions ||  ||
 * 10/09/09 || Added the 6 Thinking Hats Table in Thinking Deeper ||  ||
 * 17/09/09 || Filled in some Thinking Hats ||  ||
 * 21/09/09 || Filled in some Thinking Hats ||  ||
 * 22/09/09 || Filled in some Thinking Hats ||  ||
 * 10/09/09 || Added the 6 Thinking Hats Table in Thinking Deeper ||  ||
 * 17/09/09 || Filled in some Thinking Hats ||  ||
 * 21/09/09 || Filled in some Thinking Hats ||  ||
 * 22/09/09 || Filled in some Thinking Hats ||  ||
 * 17/09/09 || Filled in some Thinking Hats ||  ||
 * 21/09/09 || Filled in some Thinking Hats ||  ||
 * 22/09/09 || Filled in some Thinking Hats ||  ||
 * 21/09/09 || Filled in some Thinking Hats ||  ||
 * 22/09/09 || Filled in some Thinking Hats ||  ||