Topic Sentences

Topic Sentence #1
First, bad behavior performed by celebrities is exciting because they are like role models, and if they do something bad then it interest people more about it.

Topic Sentence #2
Next, when celebreties do something wrong, then the people who actually put it up on tv or magazines, they are the ones making money out of it.

Topic Sentence #3
Finally, because good behavior is expected when famous people behave bad it interests many people because it is out of the ordinary.

Thesis Statement

People tend to crave celebrities bad behavior. Whenever they do something good, people just seem to not care, but when they do something bad, then  they have to face paparazzi. The three main things that people actually care about are drama, publicity and gossip.

Evaluate

My rating of myself on a scale of 1-6.

Investigate: I would give myself a 5 because I did find out a lot of things. Those things were very useful, but I know that I could of done it better.


Design:For design I would give myself a 6 because I designed 3 designs. I designed  3 very different designs, and from those 3 I had to use one; I chose the one that I thought was the best for me.


Plan:I would give myself a 5 because I did plan things, but they could of been way better. I did take my time, but I knew that I could push myself harder.


Evaluate:For evaluate I would give myself a 6 because I did go over my product and found many mistakes. When I found those mistakes, I didn't change them instead I just recorded them.

Plan Questions

1. What idea did you choose to demonstrate the design cycle and why did you choose it? I chose to do the Microsoft Power point because it was much easier and faster to do my project on.

2. Does your idea meet all of the requirements? Yes, my power point did meet all of the teachers and all of my requirements.

3. How many slides does your product have? In my product their will 6 slides. Two slides will be the title and the the ending. The other 4 will be the one with the actual information.

4. Explain how you will use your time to get your project finished in 12 days. I tend to always wait until the last minute because I feel pressured and I do my work faster. I will do my project like when there is like 3 or 4 days left; pressuring me helps me do my work faster, and I actually do put time so that it will look nice.

Investigation Questions

1. How can my learning serve my community? My learning can help my community by being able to do more and better efficient things.

2. How can your future projects become better? By looking back on my mistakes and fixing those mistakes.

3. What have you learned about yourself and what you will continue to do or not do and why? I learned that I can do things really good only if I am pressured. When ever I have a long time to do it, I tend to wait until the last minute. One thing that I will keep doing is waiting until the last minute.

4. How do you feel about your final product? I am proud of my final product because I took time to do it right.
 What would you rate yourself on the Rubric scale of 1-6 for each       part of the Assessment Criterion? I would rate myself a 5 because its not perfect, but it is also good.

5. What would you do differently in regards to your planning and execution of your plan? I don't think that there is anything that I would do anything different because I am proud of what I did and I don't think I did any mistakes.

Create

Today I finished my survey, but I haven't tested it. I'm finishing up my power point, all I need it to just add pictures to the slides.  When I finish my power point, I plan to test it on 3 6th graders.  When the 6th graders are done with the survey, I am going to record the scores they get.

Survey for 6th graders

1. What is the design cycle?

2. What is the third stage of the design cycle?

3. What stage do you find the problem?

4. What do you do in evaluate?

5. What are the four stages of the design cycle?

6. What is the second stage of the design cycle?

7. What do you do in the second stage?

8. In what stage do you find the solution?

9. What have you learned from the design cycle?

10. On a scale of  1-5 how good was my power point about the design cycle?

My Progress

So far I have already put all my information on all the slides. All that is just left for me to do is to put the pictures of each step. I will also try to put more information on the slides so that the 6th graders can really understand it.

Plan: Gant Chart

My total project will take 123 minutes, which is 2 hours and 3 minutes.