For this mini project, I chose the country Saudi Arabia. I chose this country because it is influenced my culture and my religion which really made me want to dive deeply into this country even more and learn about it's regions and it's special characteristics which are different to other countries that I have also known about. Within the process of my research, I learnt many things about this country, whether it's the cities of the country or the contrasting opinions of each individual on the "good places" and the "bad places" of the country, it really showed me how diverse each country can be from each other and how time, environment and people can affect so much on a singular country. In the end, I didn't get such a high score because Saudi Arabia isn't such a popular country which means it was hard tryin gto find perceptual and functional maps, therefore I had to use very vague-looking maps and use the best of knowledge to find suitable information for each part. Other than that, I could have done a bit better in making the presentation of the poster look a bit better and be more careful with what decisions I make before diving deep into the contents of this project. But overall, I'm glad I got to learn about a new country and apply my knowledge of regions from class to this, hopefully I'll get to learn more new countries and strive for better.

Overall, this was my favourite project so far in these two units, as it not only let me apply my art skills, but also my creativity and a combination of knowledge towards maps and the information I learnt in class. Honestly, the process of making this treasure map was a bit tragic as I did procastinate and I had to cram all in one night, I'm proud and glad that I ended up with a great outcome. At first I planned/sketched out the outline of my map and then I started going into detail and drawing smaller aspects of the map whilst creating, making up random country names and cities for my treasure map. Other than drawing, at the end, I had to come up with clues for my map treasure hunt, I didn't really use any references but I did try to use my knowledge on treasure maps from past movies and TV shows and it turned out well. My treasure map hunt came out well and my classmates even had a little of a hard time trying to solve it too since they actually had to use a ruler and be percise with movements. Contrary to that, I also did my classmate's treasure map hunts and turns out some people also had really nice-looking maps and I'm glad to see that other people also put a lot of effort in it as I did as well. Some people had really tricky maps to solve but some were quite simple, it was fun trying to do all of them and seeing how diverse each person can think. To conclude, I put much effort into this project as I used my art skills, creativity and knowledge on maps in order to finish this mini project and learn so much from my peers.

Country Research Project Self-Reflection

Link to Country Website

Compared to Unit 1, this unit was better in all terms. Whether if it's the ways that benefited me knowledgeably, or if it's the information I truly enjoyed learning. Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy the topics in Unit 1 but personally, I love Geography and how it shapes our world, so when I knew that I got to learn about this topic in Unit 2, I was excited. Other than that, what I enjoyed most were the projects I did this year, since I enjoy doing projects so much more than doing little quizzes or tests because it lets me be creative and it lets me apply all my knowledge towards a certain chosen topic that I like. There wasn't anything specific I enjoyed most but I enjoyed all the topics learnt in this Unit, whether it's about our planet's landforms, regions or most importantly, the five themes of geography. Again, there wasn't really anything I disliked this Unit but compared to all the topics, I did find map projections slightly more challenging as each map projection had so much detail and it was a bit hard to find the differences between map deformations, but still, it was fun learning about something so new since I have only been looking at one map my whole life. What I didn't like about this Unit was the time that took me to do these projects, especially the Country Research project as it took me MANY hours to complete, but to balance that out, I enjoyed all the projects this Unit and it made my hate for time-consuming activities dissapear as I was able to end up with a great outcome for my projects. In conclusion, this Unit's information, projects and activites all benefitied me through many ways whether it was educationally or just creatively, I got to learn new things and furthermore practice my sense of organization through projects and teamwork through activies in class.

5 THEMES OF GEOGRAPHY