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My Learning Journey - part 1

To begin our exhibition, we participated in workshops that taught us essential skills like how to think critically, do good research, and manage our time effectively. These skills have been super helpful throughout our exhibition. We had self management skills, thinking skills and research skills workshops.




After the workshops, we formed our groups, and I decided to focus on the important topic of gender inequality. I chose to use a blog and Instagram to document and share our progress with everyone.

After that, we took 3 weeks and made our exhibition newsletter. In the progress of that, we did some extreme research and used our minds in order to finalize our central idea, lines of inquiry and specified concepts, additional concepts, english and math strands, integrations with other subjects and more. 

Next, we unwrapped our central idea ( customs and traditions define our identity) and learned a lot about customs and traditions. 



After that, we unwrapped our 1st Line of inquiry ( power dynamics in societal structure)  in which we learned about power dynamics,  bride price and dowry, power dynamics in societies, how power is distributed in different places and a lot more.


Side by side we also researched about our additional concepts ( dowry, household inequality and educational inequality). We also did some research on the islamic point of view about gender disparity. Additionally have been making posters, writing reflections, making statistics and doing brain storming on canva and google docs then posting it on instagram and blog.


if you're curious to learn more about our exhibition and the specific issue of gender inequality, please visit my Instagram page @end_dowry_now. I'd love to share more about our journey with you!








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