Ancient Egypt Reflection

For our Ancient Egypt Reflection, we were supposed to write about which IB Learner Profiles we had exhibited throughout the unit as well as which Approaches to Learning Categories we showed.

For the approaches to learning categories, I think the one that I showed the most was Communication. The three points are to present information with a variety of formats, to understand how visual information communicates ideas, and to demonstrate good speaker and audience behavior. This was something I definitely did because of our end-of-unit presentations, where everybody did a presentation on something different. Also, we all drew pictures that resembled Ancient Egyptian art that had a meaning but were free to interpretation, which also falls under communication.

During the section of the unit where we were taking notes, I used problem solving and thinking skills as well. There was a lot that we learned about the Nile, where we had to recognize cause and effect relationships.

For the learner profile, there were a couple that I showed, other than communicators. I was an inquirer for a lot of the unit when we were learning about the Nile, because it was an interesting unit that I didn't really know much about.

I was a risk-taker when I did my presentation by trying to talk more to the class and do less reading, whether from cue cards or from the PowerPoint. It worked for most of the time, I only forgot what I was going to say once.

Lastly, I think the whole class demonstrated being knowledgeable this unit. We all explored different aspects of Ancient Egypt on our own, and finally at the end, everybody presented the topic that they found to be interesting.