PSwk14 sem

Project Skills Week 14 Seminars 1 & 2

Before you come to your seminars you MUST have done the below

• Be sure to have watched all the lectures
• Be sure to have completed the pre and post lecture task

Seminar 1

Opener

Murder in Mind!

• In pairs 1 minute to answer the following question!
• I enter the garden. There are 34 people in the backyard. You kill 30. How many people are in the garden?

Task 1

• In pairs you have 2 minutes
• Write your own definition of analysis!
• How is it different from research
• Be prepared to feedback

Seminar 1

Task 2 - 5 minutes

• This week's lectures introduced you to the process of analysis
• In groups - imagine you had to explain it to someone who had never done it before
• How would explain the following steps to them
• identify
• Categorize
• Disaggregate
• Compare/contrast
• Relate

Seminar 1

Task 3 - 15 minutes

• In groups - take a concept relevant to your group's chosen topic e.g government
• First, identify the concept by giving it a clear definition with tangible boundaries.
• Categorize different types of that concept.
• Disaggregate one of these types into its fundamental parts or aspects.
• Compare/contrast your chosen type with another type from your categories.
• How are the two types relatable?

Closer

• Send a key word from today through to the Padlet

Seminar 2

Opener

• In pairs you have one minute to answer the following question
• A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me £50, but if I cannot, I will pay you £50." The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less. In the end the boy ended up paying the man £50. How did the man win the bet?? ​

Task 1

• In groups define the following (without looking at your notes!!) - you have 5 minutes!
• Phenomenon
• Concept
• Definition
• Relationship
• System
• Structure
• Process

Task 2

• Read the following description:
• On August 4, 2014, Guinea’s Ministry of Health reported a total of 495 suspected and confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease, of whom 395 had died. Ebola is a virus that causes hemorrhagic fever. The virus is most often transmitted to people from wild animals, such as fruit bats from the Pteropodidae family. It spreads in the human population through human-to-human transmission. Fatality rates in humans run as high as 90%. Officials struggled to contain the disease from spreading out of the West African region. They looked at containment strategies employed during previous epidemics, such as those of yellow fever and smallpox.
• Now in your groups identify as many of the following as possible
• Phenomenon

• Definition
• Relationship
• Structure
• Process

Task 2

• Read the following description:

• The United Nations’ system is based on five principal organs: the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, the Secretariat, and the International Court of Justice. The General Assembly is the main deliberative assembly of the United Nations. It is composed of all United Nations member states, and is led by a president elected from the member states and 21 vice presidents. The General Assembly can put forth nonbinding resolutions and make recommendations on any matter within the scope of the UN to the UN Security Council. The Security Council comprises 15 member states and 5 permanent states with veto power. The Security Council is charged with maintaining peace and security among countries and makes all final and binding decisions to be pursued by the UN. The UN Secretariat is headed by the Secretary General. It provides studies, information, and facilities needed by the UN bodies for their meetings. It also carries out tasks as directed by the Security Council, the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council, and other UN bodies.

• Now in your groups identify as many of the following as possible
• Phenomenon, Concept, System, Structure

For the rest of the session ...

• Examine the markscheme for your second summative assessment - you will see analysis is one of the key criteria
• What % of your work is it worth?
• This means you need to identify WHAT it is you will be analysing ....
• Based on this week's lectures/seminars you now as a group have to identify WHAT it is in your topic you will be analysing!