Reflection In Social Studies

Social Studies Reflection

In my Social Studies class, I researched about the imperialism of Japan and Korean with a team of 5 people in my class and made a story map with the information we gathered. This process of researching and creating the story map, was about 4 months long. Even though, me and my team weren 't able to do the perfect story map in 4 months however, I still learned a lot from it. Researching skills, corroboration, supporting with evidence, team management, teamwork and more.

At the start of the project me and my team selected the topic that we would be researching about for 4 months. We wrote down the topics that interested us however, I did not research about any of them, therefore my selection was what sounded best. This

For our project I also needed to answer 4 driving question. The first one was What were the motivations and methods for colonization and/or imperialism that you found in the location(s) you researched? I answered, there are many motivation for country to imperialise, in this case it was land because the land of Korea was a good land for resources like rice. At the time Korea wasn 't westernise and not as advanced as other countries, made Korea easy to take over by Japan. Japan had six thousand troops in Seoul, Korea left there from the Sino-Japanese war, Japan were just able to take Korea from there. All with a goal of being the most powerful. The second question was What was the impact of colonization and/or imperialism on the people AND environment in the location(s) you researched? My answer was, the impact of Japan to Korea was tremendous, Koreans were pressured to get Japanese names and Korean could not be taught in schools. Also, Korean women were used as comfort women which was a sex slave for Japanese soldiers. Koreans were also used for labor, torture and experimentations. Farmers had to grow rice to then be transported to Japan. The environment was also affected, because Japan industrialised Korea and built roads, buildings and factories. The third driving question was How does geography shape world events? I answered, geography give power to countries(the best land to farm, build and transport). This creates conflicts between countries because they want a lot of land and for it to be the best land. Like Japan wanted Korea for it 's farming land. The fourth and last driving question is How does our desire and need for resources lead to cooperation or conflict between different peoples? I answered, every country have the desire of being the most powerful, to do so countries start fighting with each other for land and resources which makes countries work with each other. When countries work with each other is to protect themselves from other