Session 6: Best foot forward
The focus of this session was improving and refining posters for the celebration evening. There is no presentation – in part because we focussed on peer review. I wanted to give students time to look at each others posters (and at my comments) and to make suggestions to each other and act on them. But also in part because this turned out to be a very small session, with over half the group out on a school trip.
There were some excellent posters, really showcasing the skills that they had learnt. A selection of the topics are given below, showing real diversity of interests (although quite a large cluster of interesting Physics topics for such a small group).
- Can mental illnesses be used as excuses for violence in society?
- How has the critique of Shakespeare evolved?
- Ethics of taking photos of people in public
- The impact of the civil rights movement in America
- How have things in Catholicism changed?
- The history and legality of street art
- How good can telescopes get?
- Can anything travel faster than light?
- How will we live on mars and the moon, and how will this benefit the human race?
- What are quarks and how do we know they exist?
The two in bold have now evolved into exciting EPQ topics. My other three EPQ students this year chose to switch topics (from the other three topics in italics) after the interrobang course and have moved on to: the ethics of microtransactions in video games; the politicisation of archaeology in Israel; and whether Secular Buddhism is really a Buddhist sect.
Focus skills for this session:
- Reflect: Records and reflects on individual experience of the inquiry process – the hardest part, best part, important skills learned, insights experienced, emotional highs and lows, etc. – with suggestions to self about specific ways to improve in the future
- Reflect: Identifies own strengths (academic, social, and emotional) and sets goals about specific ways to improve in the future
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