Pillar 2, Lab Skills
Current strength
One thing that i feel i am good at is making good use of my class time. when there is an assignment due I am able to complete it in time, even if it means taking it home to work on. if I am absent I will make sure I know what i must complete and when to complete it by.
Future improvement
In the future I want to provide more detail when writing labs, and to be able to analyze them gaining a deeper understanding of what I am being taught. I want to provide a further explanation focusing on why things occurred the way that they did.
Goal
My goal for the next half of this semester is to provide more details in my observations during labs. I will do this by doing research outside of what we learn in class to expand my understanding of that topic.
Revisiting midterm goal setting – June 17th
I feel that I have improved on writing more detailed observations in labs, but I could still deepen my understanding. As science 9 honors progressed, I feel like I have improved with the organization and overall quality of my labs. To help meet this goal I have used past worksheets and notes to make my labs more detailed, something I have yet to do is additional research on my labs. An example of this is for the strawberry DNA lab where I looked at the past notes we took as a class to make my writeups more detailed. I am proud of this because I feel my notetaking skills, specifically in labs, have improved a lot over the span of the second semester. If I were to do anything differently, I would have managed my time better so that at the end of class I would have time to do additional research, and if not complete it at home. I want to improve on this because having more detailed lab writeups, and doing additional research can help expand your understanding of the topic and you will discover additional information. In the coming year I will continue to work and improve on my lab writing skills and make detailed lab writeups.