At a glance
Individual · written in class on Unit 5, Days 13 and 14, with your portfolio open beside you · handed in at the end of Day 14 · Format: written, four questions answered
The task
Look back across the whole course and write about what changed in how you think.
Answer all four
- A belief you changed. Something you were sure of at the start of this course that you now know differently. What evidence changed your mind?
- Your best work. Link to it in your portfolio and say what makes it your best — not what mark it received.
- Your hardest moment. Something that did not work: a failed lab, a confusing concept, a bad group experience. What did you do about it?
- Where this goes. One thing from this course you expect to still be using in five years, and why that one.
What I am not asking for
Not a summary of the units. Not “I learned a lot about ecosystems”. The question is what happened to you, with specifics I could verify by looking at your work.
Success criteria
| Quality | What it looks like in your writing |
|---|---|
| Claims with your own work under them | Every statement about what changed points at a specific piece, by name, that a reader could go and check |
| Choices made about the work | Every piece you link is there for a reason about the work itself, not about the mark it received |
| The difficulty described, not rated | What did not work, told as what happened — what you tried, what it did, what you did next — rather than how you felt about it |
| Written for a reader | Somebody who was not in this room could follow it without you standing beside them |
Why this page lists no curriculum expectations
Every other marked page in this course ends with the expectations it covers. This one has none, on purpose: the science curriculum has nothing to say about looking back at your own learning, so there is no expectation here to cover.
That decides what it is marked on. This is marked the way any piece of writing is marked — whether the claims have evidence underneath them, and whether a reader could follow it. It is not marked on what it admits to. You cannot lose anything here for saying that something went badly. You can lose something for saying it went badly without saying what happened.
Hand in
- The reflection, roughly 500–800 words
- Links to at least three pieces of your own work
- Your portfolio, complete — see Portfolio Checklist