Molly's Jolly Jars

This term, our Project Based Learning (PBL) 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 PBL 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.

I learnt that instructions need to have a verb at the start. ( which is a doing word )
The instructions need to be clear so that others can understand them.


Reflection on PBL:
For our Jolly Jars, my group chose slime. How we came up with this Idea was Because we wanted to do something that is fun to play with. Slime is easy to make. I thought  writing the instructions would be easy but it wasn't.

I contributed to my group by decorating the jars. I also helped come up with the Idea. I also helped by testing the slime. I put the stuff into the containers and ziploc bags.

Our Jolly Jar was creative because we glued the tissue paper on the outside of the jar. We painted the top of the jar and glued some stuff on the top of it. We also put some pom poms on one.  On one of them we glued pink tissue paper on the jar but then we thought that we should put some blue on it. So we put some blue tissue paper over top. ( it looked really cool )

What I learned about working with others was that it is hard to work with different people. In the end you get the job done. They can agree and disagree but most of the time they agree.

We built community through our actions by raising money to help create the bike track for people to have fun on!!!!!

Here is a photo of my group.

Thank you for reading.