My wonder question: “How can humans make beekeeping as efficient as possible?”
My Sway:
Reflection on information fluency:
1. List your 3-5 critical questions you tried to answer in order to research your topic:
- How to get the most honey out of bees?
- What’s the best kind of bees hive?
- What are VSH bees?
- How much honey can we take from beehives?
2. What new or familiar digital tools did you try to use as you worked through this project?
A new digital tool to me was Gale Engage. I used lots of other websites from the school library webpage, like Worldbook Online, but never this one. I also went on some beekeeping websites that I’ve never been on before. But other than that I knew all of the other stuff, like Pexels, and Edge. I also made some Sway’s before, but it’s still fairly new to me, and I can definitely improve.
3. How did you verify and cite the information you found and show your research in a works cited?
I cited all of my information by making a bibliography. I used the website Cite This For Me: Harvard, APA, MLA Reference Generator to make the references for my bibliography. I put this bibliography at the end of my Sway above. Also, if I found the author of the website or page I looked them up, to see who they were. Out of the 2 people I found, all of the stuff I found out about them sounds real.
4. How did the process of completing this challenge go? What could you have done better?
Overall, I’d say I did fairly well with this project. I learned about another one of the credible websites on our online school library, Gale Engage. I also found out just how many beekeeping websites there are. I think that my Sway turned out pretty good, and I learned some cool features of it, like taking the source code. Gale engage was a bit hard to work with at some points, but it’s not the end of the world. Something I could have done better was take less notes/just right the main ideas down. I wasted too much time writing down all of the fine details of a big point. I didn’t even use ~ 3/4 of these points, and I didn’t have to hand in the notes, so there was no point in me doing this. So, next time, I’ll do bullet points.