SAVE OUR SHARKS

2006-09-13T21:22:00.000-07:00

hello beverly here! going to meet ms lily chua now for editing of ppt. bye!

2006-08-30T19:32:00.000-07:00

Yay!
we are officially on celebrating mood.
there was ipw today
and two groups presented their projects today
and then the mentor teachers called for us
and told us that we were the top group for animal connections
which is totally unexpected.
we'll be having this mini rehersal
on the first wed afer the holidays
and ms chi and several other teachers will like be there
and choose 5 groups out of all the top groups to present
to the whole level on one of the weeks

2006-07-18T02:25:00.000-07:00

2006-07-18T01:39:00.000-07:00

22nd June
We met up at genevieve's house to try to finish up whatever's left to do. This is probably the last time that we are going to meet up before school reopens, so we have to make the best out of it. We managed to discuss the characters of the script as well as the setting of the short play. We have also made improvements to the powerpoint presentation. Made it short and sweet.XD
Okay, the characters of the script will be a couple getting married and their family and friends. And the story will pretty much surround the preperations of a wedding........
okay, that's about all i'm going to tell, but it is pretty obvious what the story is going to be about...

2006-07-18T01:02:00.000-07:00

14th June
hi again
okay
we met up at the national library in the morning to find books on sharks. There were quite a few books in the reference library that were quite detailed and we would very much like to borrow it.However, the refernce library was a REFERENCE library, after all, which means that we could only refer to it. STRICTLY NO BORROWING. But we managed to get a few books from the non-reference part of the library though....
ok
then we went to weiqing's house to continue on our report as well as data anylsis...

2006-07-15T03:33:00.000-07:00

10th May
Ms. Chua returned us our survey on Wednesday and we used ipw period to improve on it. We also discussed briefly the dates that we could meet up for ipw during the holidays. Seems that it would not be an easy task to make time to meet up. But we'll find a way, i guess.

2006-07-12T18:50:00.000-07:00

12th July
okay
the animal connections group were supposed to present their work today at the Board Room and Mr. Shone was picking out groups to present. AND WE DIDNT GET PICKED!!! that means that we have another week to prepare for the presentation.yay.
also, we disussed and edited our script in between groups......and technical glitches.
and a total of 3 groups presented......wonder if we will get picked next week...

2006-07-12T18:04:00.000-07:00

2006-06-17T06:35:00.000-07:00

17th June
We met at Yvonne's house today for ipw.
We pretty much finished our report... which is a GREAT accomplishment.And we started on our powerpoint presentation. We have to get ready by term 3 week 2 cos that's when the presentations are. We have decided to do a short script so that our presentation will not end up as a boring-and-ppl-will-end-up-sleeping-by-the-end-of-it kind of presentation.
Hope it turns out well!

2006-06-12T17:50:00.000-07:00

12th June
hello ppl
we were at genevieve's house today for IPW. We continued on our research on sharks as well as the consumption of shark's fin. Actually, of the 375 different species of sharks found in the world's oceans, only about 30 have been reported to ever attack a human. Of these, only about a dozen should be considered particularly dangerous when encountered. So this proves the people's common perception that ALL sharks attack humans, wrong. The chances of being attacked by a shark are very small compared to other animal attacks, natural disasters, and ocean-side dangers. Many more people drown in the ocean every year than are bitten by sharks. The few attacks that occur every year are an excellent indication that sharks do not feed on humans and that most attacks are simply due to mistaken identity.
We also found out that there was an organisation in Singapore, Save Our Sharks, who is actively raising awareness of the public on the topic on finning. However, we couldn't find any way to contact the organisation, which is a real pity...

2006-06-10T19:27:00.000-07:00

10th June
hi
we went to eiffel's house today to do more research on the consumption of shark's fin. Shark's fin soup contains enough mercury to make a man infertile!! So don't eat shark's fin unless you don't plan to have children...
and we spent like half and hour looking for any marine biologists or organistions related to sharks or the marine life in the Yellow pages... IN VAIN....we didn't manage to find any...
oh, and eiffel's younger brother is adorable. xD

2006-06-07T10:02:00.000-07:00

7th July
We went to Toyogo to get stationary in the morning. The stuff are all pretty cheap there. XD
We went to Beverly's house to wrap up the statistics for the survey. We spent like 2 hours counting the no. of ppl who eat shark's fin, reasons for eating them etc. And guess what. We counted the figures wrongly and some of the surveys of the different age groups were mixed up and we spent another 2hours to redo it. Anyway, there were some very VERY cute comments:
"Go, Brazil, Go!"
"Either we eat them or they eat us"
Lol.

2006-05-03T18:38:00.000-07:00

3rd May
We discussed and created our survey during ipw period today and we wrote out all the questions for survey after discussion. We handed our draft to Ms. Chua for her approval as well as for her to amend it.

2006-04-12T19:14:00.000-07:00

12th April
During ipw period today,we discussed our plans for the project. We have planned who to interview, what we are going to do in the following weeks.....stuff like that. It went really well. found out that for every human killed by a shark, 2 million sharks are killed. Shocking, really.

2006-02-21T18:46:00.000-08:00

21st feb
We stayed back after school to do our ipw proposal in the SAC. Our ipw topic is animal connections and we have decided to research on the cruelty of how some animals are killed before they become the delicacies on our plates. We have come to an agreement to focus our project on the way shark's fins are obtained. Hope our mentor teacher approves of it!