Minecraft Energy Transfer & Transformation Reflection

Communication

I believe that a large part of this group project was communication aligned and I don’t think that our group would’ve been as successful as we were if we didn’t communicate as much as we did. I say this communication, coordination, and collaboration helped with many aspects of this project. One of the ways we found communication helpful was by getting a better knowledge of who was going to do what. We collectively gave each other roles which assisted in getting our project done faster and smoother. Another way it helped was by collaborating ideas. By this, I mean that our group thought up ideas and shared them with each other which helped us end up with a more finished and refined idea for our Minecraft project.

Thinking

Communication was an important aspect of this project, but I believe the thinking was equally important. I make this statement because communication was required for the project’s completion and completion in a timely manner, but the thinking competency was required for the information included in the project. This competency (in this case) includes knowledge of energy as well as its transfer and transformation. The thinking aspect also assisted me in gaining a better understanding of energy, its various types, and its transformation. Without a thorough understanding of this, our project will appear incomplete and devoid of the information required to appear as a complete, well-done, and finished project.

Personal and Social

I believe the Personal and Social competency was nearly as large as the other two competencies and was still visible in this project. The Personal and Social competence was less obvious than the other two competencies in this project, but they were still present. This is because the Personal and Social competency encompasses what we did in this project as well as how we can apply what we learned in a social or real-world situation. The group collaboration was one aspect of this project that would be extremely useful in a real-world situation. This can be used in a variety of situations, including a future job, activities with friends, and even other subjects in school. Being able to work well in a group setting and converse with others are useful skills to have and can make many aspects of life easier.

Spanish 10 Core Competency Reflection

Creative Thinking

My Artifact: My Spanish Family Tree

I can develop a body of creative work overtime. I have demonstrated this through my Spanish family project by producing creativity through this project. This project allowed for a lot of creativity through choices that were up to me. I chose to do a PowerPoint showcasing all of my family members and speaking about them. I chose to do a PowerPoint because I thought that would be the best way to show my creative ideas. My artifact is my family tree with Spanish translations for all of my family members. I showed creative thinking through this project by using my own creative ideas to produce a project that well presents my family in the Spanish language. Creative thinking is shown quite often throughout Spanish 10 through means such as projects, conversations, and much more.

Vertical and Horizontal Lines

Slopes

The slope of any given horizontal line will always be 0. This is because if you were to write the slope of a horizontal line it would be 0/x no matter what x is, the slope will always be 0. The slope of any given vertical line is undefined. This is because the actual slope of the line would be x/0 and because you can’t divide a number by 0 in math, the slope is now undefined.

Slope: undefined
Slope: m=0

Equations

The basic equation is y = (slope) x + b. To write the equation for a vertical line you need to write x = whatever the x-intercept is (meaning the point on the x-axis goes though). For example, the equation for the vertical line previous is x = 6.

Functions and Non-Functions

The easy way to tell if any given line is a function or not is by doing the vertical line test. If the line intersects the graph more than once, then the line is not a function. This means that any given vertical line will not be a function and any horizontal line will be a function.

This line is a function
This line is not a function

Domain & Range

The domain of a vertical line will always be x=__ and the range of a vertical line will be y=all real #’s. The domain will just be where the line hits the x-intercept and the range will be all real #’s because it is continuously going up and down.

Example Above. Domain: x=4 Range: All Real #’s

The domain and range of a horizontal line will be the opposite of vertical. The domain of a horizontal line will be x=all real #’s and the range will be y=__. Once again the range will be where the line hits the y-intercept and the domain will be all real #’s because it is continuously going side to side.

Example Above. Domain: x= All Real #’s Range: y=4