Ashley's+Joint-+Wiki

Joint-Wiki Knee Project Our class was divided into groups for this project. My group was made up of three people, Sam, Angeline, and I. Our goal was to make notes on joints in general using the joint webquest. Then, Mr. Orr gave each group a specific joint to study and create a wiki on. My group got the knee, and we each collaborated on the wiki by reading through the sites on the joint webquest, making an outline of what we wanted on our site, and then the actual creation of our site. I liked my group because we all worked efficiently and we liked working together. I think our site came out great! We had a lot of easy-to-read information and many pictures, even though we probably could have included more. The goal was to create a website that had all the information of the joint you chose but make it simple enough for a sixth grader to comprehend. Our group chose to take out many of the harder words, and defined any words used in the site we thought would be confusing. Since the creation of our site, I have read through our wiki and i find it well-informed, but not too hard to read or understand either. I felt a learned a lot not only about the knee itself but joints overall. There are different types of joints classified by their movement. The knee is considered a hinge joint, which permits forward and backward motion similar to actual hinges. Because of its location, the knee helps support pretty much all of the body's weight!