Cory Fife's Portfolio

One main project that we did in Wellness & Fitness was a calendar that helped prevent our family from a disease, also known as the Prevention Calendar Project. This was a project where we made a calendar of a month of our choosing to help prevent our family from receiving a non-communicable disease (NCD). My NCD I had chosen was Osteoporosis. For this project, we had to use lots of inquiry to find out ways to prevent this disease for our family. Inquiry is any process that has the aim of asking questions or problems you don’t understand to understand more. This is what I thought I had grown in the most in this class.

For this project, we had to start filling out a sheet of questions that would help find a non-communicable disease for us to choose that relates to our family’s life. After choosing a NCD that relates to our family, we had to choose a month to also relate to our family and help with the process of prevention. Before starting our calendar, we had to endure the most difficult part of this project, and this was to create 15 ways for change in your family to prevent the NCD that follow the causes of our disease and how to prevent it. With this finished and approved by both our teacher and parents, we needed one more item for our calendar, a local resource that could also lower the risk or our family to contract our chosen NCD. After all of these requirements were all rounded up, we had finally started the building process of the calendar. We had done our first draft in time to commence feedback to our project by our peers. This would be my first artifact for this project to demonstrate my growth of Inquiry. With this artifact, it shows what we have done with all the needed information for the calendar & our personal touch. We had received critique that really helped influence us to make our calendar more professional and creative.

After the critiquing session ended, we added or took away from our drafts to create our 2nd draft of our calendar. This time, we created a digital version of our calendar instead of a drawn out calendar to make it look more professional. With this process, I had learned about overlaying, which means that I put two items or images on top of another, but the top had less opacity so you see through it easier. We did another critique session to get closer for our final draft.. After critiquing was over, we had started towards our final draft, but I had trouble with trying to create a calendar. Later on though, I had learned about a tool on PowerPoint that helped me. It was a graphing tool and I bet you’re wondering why this would help. It helped because it made a perfectly shaped graph where I could put the text into it so I had made an excellent calendar for the project. As the project came to a close, we had developed our final draft of the calendar. With this, my second artifact that I chose was my critique  because to me, it was a part of the project that helped me by giving me newer ideas to add to my calendar with the help of my peers of course. With this feedback given to me, it helped with the final construction overall because it made me think of what types of strategies to use like what I said before about overlaying the images of the calendar.

With this project coming to a close, I had realized that my growth in Inquiry because with each part of the project, I would ask questions to both my peers and teacher, Mr. Harding to understand what I needed to add or what I could do to present better evidence for my calendar. In the future, I would hope for a project that can help with this growth so I can ask more professional questions.