Journal Entry #3- Finalizing my "Guiding Question"

Since the personal project was introduced, I knew that I wanted to focus on a topic involving energy consumption. However, there were still a lot of choices to make. I specifically wanted to focus on helping people in my surrounding to improve the energy efficiency in their households whil learning more about my topic.

After I have decided to work with an "Energy Logger" as my technical instrument I decided to make final project a workshop where I teach students more about energy consumption in order to raise awareness for saving costs and improve the efficiency.

I continued by reading a handbook from the "Bundesministerium for Wirtschaft und Energie" in order to learn more about the topic:

https://www.bmwi.de/BMWi/Redaktion/PDF/M-O/nationaler-aktionsplan-energieeffizienz-nape,property=pdf,bereich=bmwi2012,sprache=de,rwb=true.pdf

Specifically the book explained how Germany tried to reduce costs  and implement environmentally friendly energy, this was part of my backround research and learning about the topic in general.

After conducting this research and combined my ideas, I finalized my question to:

How can I raise awareness about energy consumption and enable students to improve the energy efficiency of their households in one week?

Journal Entry #2- Choosing my Mentor

A big part of the personal project is to chose a mentor who will help and guide the student throughout the entire project.

At the beginning I was planning to chose an english teacher to help me. I though that it might be useful if someone could help me organizing my project, whilst helping me with the format of my final essay.

However, after thinking this through again, I figured it would be more useful to have a teacher who is involved with this project and knows a lot about my topic, energy consumption. In my opinion it is very useful to have a teacher who knows a lot about my topic and who can help me organize my thoughts. I decided to chose a science teacher to help me.

I had my first meeting last week, i am very glad to have chosen a science teacher, since I have the feeling he understands my topic well and knows what I am going for.