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At first, when I was thinking of which topic to do within the 3 chemistry topics, so I asked my father for his opinion, and he said that “chemical changes” was actually the easiest out of the three. But when I further looked up the topic, I realized that it was harder than expected and it consists of a lot of different types of chemical changes, E.g. Chemical changes of heat : Combustion and Oxidation and Reduction(Redox), Chemical changes of light: Photosynthesis and Photographs, Chemical changes of water: Electrolysis. Fortunately I had the aid of my textbooks and books all around my house and on the web. The web actually contributed a lot of help to me and helped me complete my project on time.

 

There were many types of different questions piling up in my mine while I was doing this project, and when I was checking the internet for information when I finished my Bio-Journal, some of the questions could not be found and I did not quite trust the web much cause most of the information are made by people who I do not even know. But there was a question I found out through the internet and its was about the difference between combustion and Redox. Combustion is actually the complete oxidation of natural compound into carbon dioxide and water particles in presence of oxygen gas while oxidation is the addition of oxygen in a compound or with an element the loss of electron from an atom or ion is also oxidation but it is not the combustion.

 

There were several difficulties that I have encountered in this project like it is scheduled near exams and it is very hard to put in time into this project as some of my classmates have poor time management and this could lead to dire consequences as this project consists of 10% of my entire year and it would be a bad idea not to do it, but the mastery reviews were also near. Another problem that I faced was the difficulty to differentiate between the real information and fake information, so in order to solve that problem, I went from web to web to compare the information I have and the information provided

by other webs. Even though the this project had to waste much of valuable time and effort, I feel that the teachers have a reason to why they are giving us projects like these to further enhance our knowledge with the web and books.

 

From this I have further learnt how to plan my time wisely so that I have sufficient time to do research, reflection and references. By doing all these projects I feel that the teachers at Catholic High are actually preparing us for our Jc lives as there will times to times where we need to do tedious projects too. These kind of meaningful projects teach us to do more things not like just copying the projects of other people in the internet but really using the brain to think instead of just displaying it in our skull.