joy jolly jar.

This term, our Project Based Learning (P.B.L) started with the teachers putting us into groups.
In these groups we had to work collaboratively to create Jolly Jars for the school fair.
This task helped us to begin exploring our P.B.L question for the term -
How can we build community through our actions?
We had to research ideas, be creative with our product,
experiment with our materials and write instructions that could be followed by others. 

Here is a link to my instructions. link

I learnt that instructions need to  
be clear to help  people do the correct thing,
that  you need to double check it in case there is a mistake. 

Reflection on P.B.L:

For our Jolly Jar my group made a flower in a jar. 

I contributed to my group by
helping come up  with the idea of the jolly jar.
I went to the shop and bought some plastic bags to put all the ingredients in.
We put all the ingredients in the plastic bags.

Our Jolly Jar was creative because  
we put  nail polish on the jar to decorate it. 
It was our first time making a jolly jar and it turned out so well.

What I learned about working with others was  
that we all work well together but at first it got a little bit  out of control
because we took a long time to come up with an idea for the jolly jar
. Compromising is hard.

   

How did we build community through our actions?

Our jolly jars all sold out very quickly ,
and we helped contribute to about $25000 or $30,000 for the bike track for the whole school.