Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Case Two: Phase Eight

PHASE EIGHT

Instruction

1. You have reached the last phase of our module for case two. Congrats!!!

2. Please fill up the following section.

A. Describe your response to this problem as a learner. What were you thinking and feeling while you were solving the case?

Thinking:

Feeling:

B Is there anything that you don't understand after you have solved the problem?



26 comments:

  1. Thinking: I was thinking what kind of animals and plants should i choose to bring into our Malaysiana Zoo. Should it be all the endangered species or animals that the public don't really recognise?
    other than that will other people get bored or enjoy our presentation if we bring about 20-25 species of animals and plants in our zoo?
    so,finally, we decided to put not so may sp. in our zoo..

    feeling: I was very excited to do this assignment yet feeling upset as it takes time for us to discuss all these stuffs and do the drawing.. I am excited as this assignment takes me into my dream to open a zoo or nursery with my father as i am really a nature lover.. well..the late is Steve Irwin is one of my role model.

    B: i think i dont have any problem

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  2. Thinking: i was wondering what should i do actually in this assignment.should i include all of the information about the species that we are going to place into our zoo or not.or it is just about the habitat and their diet.

    feeling: frankly, i think that two cases are already enough because we spent too much time on doing these things. by the way, it is true that this PBL help me to gain extra knowledge which is beyond the text book.

    B: i dont have any problem after solving this case.

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  3. Thinking: I think that we should conserve and preserve the animals and plants from extinction. By creating our own zoo, we had exposed to different species of animals and plants and their habitat as well.

    Feeling: Gathering the information about various types of animals and plants is intersting as we have chance to know new facts and the appearances of them.

    B. The actual management of the zoo, as we need not to consider the maintenance cost of the zoo. The money is provided.

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  4. thinking: generally, while trying to brainstorming the idea of trying the most 'fantastic' zoo, we included the varoius type of climate in the world such as rainforest, savanna, pole,aquatic, and some of the birds species. after that, we are also thinking about the interaction between all the animals, wether they are eat each other or not(prey-predator relation).

    feeling: i feel good.gaining a lot of info about species that a i ve never found and never ever know it is actually existed like deep sea fish.

    B.i wonder why our group(b) make the presentation in mahjong paper while group a in multimedia fromat..

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  5. A

    thinking :
    for this case, what i was thinking is that what should be done by us as the zoo planner in order to maintain the animals and the condition for the zoo itself so that the animals will not die and the visitors enjoy their time while visiting our zoo. So, from here, it creates the environment of thinking among us as the group about what type of animals should be put and their specific condition which mean their habitat and also their diet. From there also, we as the learner also start to think where should us find all those things which takes sometimes. For me, it is manageable as i have the laptop and also the internet, but then some of my friends, they do not have the equipment, so it takes a lot of times to them to finish the task. From some of the websites, we manage to complete the task successfully.

    Feeling :
    well, without doubt this task actually really interesting because so many things that we have learned about animals and their habitat as well. But my opinion for the next task, maybe we should just focusing more on just the presentation because for the phase actually it is really take times to finish. Well, that is my opinion, hope i am doing well for the next task. thank you.

    B

    After the task, a lot of problems have been resolved, but there are still a few problems that i think not really important but it is still problems. One of them is about the zoo which planned by Vincent and the gang, they have come out with the zoo with all the animals are keep in the same area i can say, with the same habitat which they were saying that the predators will not eat their prays because they have been trained. My problem just that how they were trained??and i just feel that after they were trained, their instinct must be so opposite with their natural.

    so i think thats all, so thank you..

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  6. Thinking:
    Throughout solving this case, my thoughts were, of cause, revolving around one major scenario which is the placing of various species of animals and plants in a zoo as systematically as possible. I focussed on what I've learned in the 'Ecosystem' chapter in Biology. Based on our knowledge, my team and I brainstormed to ensure that our placements of the animals and plants are right according to their habitat, niche, and diet. We also put some thoughts on reducing the cost and strategies to attract visitors to our zoo.

    Feeling: To be frank, I felt quite burdened by this task as it takes a lot of time and thoughts in order to come out with an excellent and strategic zoo plan especially with so many species to be researched on. Nonetheless, solving this case does benefit us as it requires us students to refresh what we have learned in certain chapters in our syllabus especially 'Ecosystem'.

    B: -

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  7. Thinking:
    I was thinking that, as a zoo planner we should place all the animals and plants according to their habitat without ignoring all the appropiate conditions to maintain their natural behaviours and we also could be able to relate this assigment with our syllabus (ecosystem).

    Feeling:
    Actually, this assigment was quite good because it gave us opportunities to widen our knowledge about various type of plants and animals. But in the other side, it was wasting too much time for us to finish all the tasks. I suggest that we should focus more on our syllabus (AS and A2 level).

    B:
    I dont have any problem.....

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  8. A -While trying to find the best solution for the case,i was trying to relate this case to the ecology topic and i was quite glad that i had the chance to gain knowledge on many new species of plants and animals, including their unic way of living to survive.The zoo that my team came up with focusses more on creating a treasure trove of biological diversity. I am hoping that these cases could be of help in the A2 syllabus.

    B- doubts cleared!=]

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  9. Thinking :
    I think, in order to build a zoo, we should choose endengered animals and plants.Hence, we can help to conserve and preserve all the unique creature in this world.

    Feeling :
    Generally, I love to know more about flora and fauna.Although it becomes interesting to as I go through the second case, but there are to many phase that should be done for each case. Hence, it takes a lot of time for me to finish them.

    B : Nothing remains unclear to me.

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  10. Thinking: I like polar bears. :) n penguins (><) n megalodon!!!! oh, they r extinct.. so sad.... animals are still dying yet we basically still living in wif our lives, ignorantly... huh, typical for humans no?

    feeling: I hate paperwork!!!!!! but presentation is enjoyable.... can we cut down the phases?

    B: Y we don jz ran away wif the inheritance?

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  11. Thinking: actually there is nth i'm thinking about..PBL is just an assginment given by lecturer to be completed.So, watever it is, i will try my best to complete the work.

    Feeling: feel frustrated because i lost my laptop...so, nth to say and to be posted!

    Problem: Since i lost my laptop,madam, can i ask vincent to finish all the assignment in the future? And of coz, i get the marks!!! hahaha

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  12. ---HUI SIN---
    Thinking:designing a zoo actually remind us of the world we live in..our surrounding is changing and somehow, this makes an impact to the living organisms aroung us.it also remind us of biodiversity . Besides the usual tropical animals and plants,there are also plants and animals that are able to survive in harsh conditions like in Aritic ,tundra and they can be rotally different.

    Feeling:well i think that this assignment in some way is actually kind of fun coz we actually hav the chance to design our own zoo and know some extra things about animals,but honestly ,i do think that this is taking too much my time since is really kind of long...

    B:completed my zoo ..but feel that they are ilogical in someway..
    **
    (i m actually using Umai's account to write this..i hv given my account to u twice and double checked it, but is really wired,my inbox remain empty,so i hav to use other ppl account to access to this blog.hope u don mind.)

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  13. A:
    thinking:
    my knowledge had been broaden i guess, yeah, dealing with this animal things. i'm not that interested in animals before but having to design a zoo forcing my brain to think and think about animals and finally fell in love with them all.

    feeling:
    designing my own zoo is really a great thing. thx for giving me chance to do this and at least dream of its existence. i'm sort of a dreamer and always dream of having and owning every single thing in this world~like a zoo for example.ha-ha.ok thats the pros.

    well, i do think that this assignment take too much time to be completed. the phases are too many i guess, plus with the table and graph things.even presentation take too much of our precious lecture time.i'm more worried about our A2. we don't have much time to study all the long,tough chapters in less 2months before pre A2, which is on august. how izit?

    B: nothing unsolved.

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  14. -ZURINA BT RAMLE-

    A :
    THINKING:
    After these two cases, I think this PBL is a quite good style of learning to boost our thinking skills, to give the ideas and to find the best solution to solve the problem given. Simply, it forced our brain to work and we can gained knowledge about new things that we never known before.

    feeling :
    this PBL quite takes my time to finish it since i don't have laptop to find the informations and have to borrow from my friend(thanks dayah=])..

    same with my friends,i'm more worried with our AS and A level examination since we don't have much time to catch up the syllabus especially A level because we just have less than two months to finish the chapters on A2 with contain about 10 chapters(if I'M not mistaken)..I just want to suggest that we try to finish the syllabus first. Btw, thanks madam..=)

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  15. A
    thinking:
    I think creating our own zoo is exciting.
    Besides,we have to gather the information about the animal first in order to complete our zoo.This actually help us in stdying biology.

    feeling:
    But unfortunately,i don't think that we should concentrate too much on pbl as doing presentation and the others were wasting our time.

    B
    i'm still wondering what the objective of pbl because we actually didn't solve any problem as we didn't know the solution.

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  16. A
    Thinking:i think that case 2 have brought me to be more educated in making the plan of the zoo and also their location of the animals around the zoo. i feel like a pro biologist and also a little bit as a architect.

    Feeling: i feel so happy while making the plan of the zoo.it makes me so interested in learning of biology.

    B: till now i don't have any problems to say

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  17. A

    thinking : i think being someone owning a zoo would be great.i mean, having all those animal.its like having a cool pet.anyway, its great knowing how all these animal react with their surrounding.how each and every property of the animals, and the plants,complement each others need. and, also ensure their survival. but as what vincent said, those typical ignorant humans, living without a feeling of guilt destroying this magnificant nature. *sigh*

    feeling : happy :D i guess.
    except that after i realised that there are many A2 chapter to be catched up, it sort of turns into worries :S

    B

    is there a pbl like this in A-level examination? hurmm..maybe? :D

    anyway, thanx madam :)

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  19. Thinking : I think that this PBL is something new for all of us..so at first we were quite wondering what is it all about n we are rather confuse doing all the tasks...but now we thoroughly understand the steps and the values behind it, so we enjoy doing the tasks given. And I think that it really needs a creative thinking in order to come out with a really good solution. Whatever it is, I have to say it gives its own benefits in its own way... :D

    Feeling: Happy after coming out with the best zoo that we can create!! hehe...I hope this will come true~ :)

    B : Everything's solved..


    Thanks madam~ :D

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  20. Thinking : This task needs a lot of researches and discussions.. it is a good assignment as we can practice these skills... for case two, i was thinking on how to create an ideal zoo with various kind af animals and plants as well as in maintaining their natural habitat and basic requirements.... :) i had a chance to test my talent as an architect.. *_* .. :)hehe

    Feeling : i feel that this PBL takes a lot of time to finish...i do agree that it is a beneficial assignment, i am happy that i can finish it successfully and come out with the best zoo... however there is another priority to concern right now, revision for AS and also A2... i prefer to concentrate on my revision for AS...i am sure, 100% sure, that it is better for us to focus on what is more important right now, our exam, As n A2... :)
    doing revision n learn a bit of A2 syllabus.. :)

    B. Nothing unsolved i think.... :D

    thanks madam, u are a great lecturer :)..
    [ by the way, xtually i'm amirah... :)]

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  21. A - good assignment. we can learn more about energy and ecosystem by doing this assignment.
    this assignment also need a lot of research, type of animals, basic needs for the animals, facilities in the zoo, attractions in the zoo and etc.

    B - fun creating our own zoo!

    everything cracked

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  22. thinking: i think this project is quite interesting since i really love animals so much. From this project, i've learnt so many things about flora, fauna, and their relationship in our ecosystem.This is really helpful when answering ecology topic.
    Feeling: First of all, i find that this PBL stuff is quite interesting, but unfortunately, we do it in the wrong time. I'm so worried about my as and a2 exam.So,I hope we can focus more to as and a2 exam after this.

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  23. -AFINA-

    Thinking: well, i think this case kinda sharpen my thinking skill (i guess) and plus our "architectural" skill which none of us needed in the future. But i'm still glad that we did this case, becoz we gain quite a lot knowledge on the variety of animals and plants in the world.

    Feeling: Quite happy that we finished it becoz now we can focus more on our syllabus. But nonetheless, i'm quite worry becoz i just noticed that we only hv 2 months to cover A2 chapters.hehe.

    Q: notin unsolved

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  24. sorry for being the last one in posting the comment!
    Thinking:I have learnt about many types of animals and plants through this PBL...There are too many different types of living things on this earth which are yet to be discovered...
    Feeling: I felt relieved and happy as we have completed this PBL successfully...
    B:nothing remains unresolved...

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  25. Thinking: Actually, I do learn something from this PBL project. Scientific concepts were taught and I do gain from it.
    Feeling: I felt relieved and happy to have completed this PBL. However, it somewhere took lots of time to complete it.
    B:nothing

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