Evaluation

Rebekah Shin
March 15th of 2010
Evaluation
This project was an overall fun and interesting unit. This was not the first time I had worked on a unit like this but this unit was fun and easy to follow. The information that we had to include and the information that were required were not too much and it was easy for me to understand it and have fun with the project. Also the reason why I enjoyed this unit is because it was interesting to find out all sorts of new information’s.
Investigation
The investigating part wasn’t that hard because all the needed information was given with the sheet at the beginning of the unit. It had the necessary information such as the inventors of the invention and the date and the history behind the ball point pen.
Plan
The plan that I made this time was very clear and neat also reasonable but I was not able to follow it completely. For the first few days I had it perfectly fine but once it was the weekends I didn’t follow it completely. This made me work a bit more and made me work on it on Tuesday when it wasn’t intended to.
Create
The part when I had to create the poster was easy and simple. I started to work on it at school but wasn’t able to finish it. So, I went home and didn’t work on it during the weekends and ended up working on Tuesday. All I had to do was to print out few paragraphs and sentences and stick it onto the poster. Also add a bit more color to it and write a bit more information on the poster.
My product was a success because I was able to get it done on time with the necessary information. The test was to find out weather the ball point pen was used or not by students. The results were that 8 out of 9 people sometimes use the ball point pen and only one ticked all the time. The next question was if a ball point pen was better than a normal pen. The results are that more than a half of the people perfer ball point pens rather than just a normal pen. They said a ball point pen was better because it was softer and much comfortable. Also I found out that in every household there is at least one or more ball point pens.
This survey was to see how well used the ball point pens are from students and the results are that it is well used but there are some down sides to it. The down sides are that sometimes the ball point pen dries up or the ink clots and makes smudges. The survey was a success too because I was able to find out more facts of ball point pens and how students think about it.
For further improvement I would improve on the amount of information on the poster. I would have wanted to add a bit more on the survey results. The second improvement would be to make it a bit more attracting and flashy! Looking at other posters I found out that my poster was not too bright and attracting. The third improvement would be to add more pictures as an example or even a real ball point pen stuck onto the poster. This would have made the poster really stand out.