This process of RAHA is to help the understanding and comprehension my reading. This prepares me to get the best grade on the test! RAHA stands for R-Read, A-Answer, H-Highlight, and A-Annotate. This acrostic helps me to reach my academic goals through these studying techniques.

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The requirements of RAHA is to complete the steps of RAHA, R-Read, A-Answer, H-Highlight, and A-Annotate. But more importantly to highlight less and annotate more. We do this because, highlighting is for main ideas and annotating is for the details of that main idea. Highlighting is the main facts to remember, therefore, if I highlighted a whole paragraph it will not point out to me the main idea. This concept is the key to success in RAHA, studying effectively.

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I was challenged in thoroughly annotating. At first I struggled to annotate fully and actually explaining the material. I learned that you had to take your time to get a good product. I had to grow in Inquiry to overcome this problem. I would start to ask myself questions to effectively use the space and have good annotations that helped to describe solubility in the 4.1 reading.

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I would start to ask myself questions like, Am I making the most out of this space? How can I improve this annotation? How could I simplify this annotation so that I can remember it better? This growth in annotating and inquiry helped me to better understand solubility, the ability that a material has to dissolve into another material. The kind of annotations that helped me were the ones that would clarify a misconception of what I thought was happening. My annotation would tell me the truth about was is truly happening from the reading. A solute is what dissolves into the solvent. A solvent is what the solute dissolves into. When I grew in inquiry I could annotate better which helped me to better understand solubility, solute, and solvent.

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In this process inquiry to me was to self-critique myself and learn to ask questions that helped me to get the grades that I set my goals for. More importantly it is asking questions to help me understand the science of solubility.

 

6.2 (Chemistry workbook) and 4.1 (Physics workbook) show my growth in creativity of using RAHA through my course of science. You can see in Reading 6.2 I used a lot of words that were good annotations but could be explained better in pictures. To me, pictures help me to visualize things that I can’t see. The pictures that I drew for example, (in this reading) were showing the process that it took for an echo to happen. I feel that this growth in creativity helped me to understand what is happening visually better than just words.

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In these artifacts you will find three of the four RAHA techniques (one technique is to read). Highlighted areas represent main ideas. These main ideas are the most important parts of the reading. On the other hand the next technique is annotating. This is a lot more complex than highlighting and is written in pen. This is the details of the main ideas; they are very detailed and specific to that main idea. Lastly in pencil there is answers to questions. These answers are found using the annotations and highlights. These RAHAing techniques are used to show the main content learned.

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In this process creativity was to use visualizing techniques to better help myself learn about elasticity in reading 6.2. Elasticity is a deformed rigid object. For example if you squished a golf ball and squished a foam ball at the same deformation, the golf ball would have more elastic energy because it was more rigid.

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By using these annotating techniques on RAHA along with inquiry and creativity I learned more about solubility and elasticity. I will use these techniques of RAHA later in my life to help me to learn more about science when it is more complex. RAHA helps me to comprehend and break things down to what is really important.