My science stem project about the Australian bushfires with the research question of “How effective were the Australian government’s responses to the 2019-20 bushfire season?” has been completed. In this portfolio post, I would be listing some of the things I have learnt throughout this project, for the sake of my memory.
I think, generally speaking, my project was quite successful. Most of the research went really smoothly, and I was able to find all the information that I needed to determine the efficiency of 2019-20 bushfire season’s responses. I think my approach of answering the research question was really original and clever, where I compared this year’s responses to the previous bushfires’ responses from the past. By doing so, I was able to answer my research question effectively and through details. However, there still were some areas of improvement. I forgot to set a hypothesis for my project (solely a mistake), and the facts regarding the 1982-83 season were really limited. Therefore, I could only take impacts on human into account when considering the efficiency of each season’s policies. If I had more data/ time so that I could take other factors into account as well, I think my research would have been much more accurate and reliable.
I believe I have learnt the correct method of researching and choosing the relevant/ reliable information from the web throughout this project. I hope this report may influence the Australian government in some sort so that they can actually do something about climate change and their effect on the bushfires. If I have more time to continue this project in the future, I would like to add more bushfire seasons to compare, so that the comparison of government’s policies’ efficiency can be more reliable with more dataset.
Link to my report: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dJV0UmczxV4BzNa7adFQj2BPePooFWMh0Km2SfuP2Cs/edit