Group Work in Math

Posted on June 17, 2022 by Mariechen

Pros and cons for group work: Pro, we were very strong in communication and getting everything done on time. Very proficient. Con, the con was the presentation when I accidentally put in the wrong formula, but still got the same answer, also, I had a hard time explaining the math concepts. Answers to 4 of the following Core Competencies: I am clear on the difference between simple “group work” and collaboration as evidenced by… simple group work being that we each did a smaller section to get the big assignment overall. Collaboration being that we worked together and got it all done.

One of the ways I ensure my group is clear on the common purpose is to… talk about each thing and make sure everyone is on the same page. If there is disagreement within the group, I find it helpful to… fix the problem and get the others to share their opinions. I show others that I truly value their contributions by… asking for their opinions and asking for their ideas.

What did you learn about working in a group from this semester that you will carry into your next group experience? Collaboration and making sure everyone has equal parts in the assignment. Making sure each person gets a say in what part they take on. And lastly helping each other out.

Musical Performance Reflection

Posted on June 16, 2022 by Mariechen

Small ensemble and solo concert

Curricular Competencies Reflection

During the process of learning a difficult song for the small ensemble and solo performance, I learned many different music techniques. The song me and Lucus played is called Concertino op.107 by Celia Charlemagne. Learning the song, I had to learn how to play thirty-second and sixty-fourth notes. It took great difficulty to accomplish.

Another thing that was complicated was in the allegro section in the song, it had a very repetitive pattern which included a mix of sixteenth notes and thirty-second notes. At first I would slowly work on the section, then speed it up, bety difficult. To this day, I can barely play that one section.

The section that follows it is also very repetitive, but the articulation made it difficult, especially at the pace it was playing. The whole section was dotted sixteenth notes, and then some quick scales thrown in between. If one listened to our performance, you can hear how I could barely keep up with this section, I miss counted it, but luckily it ended okay in the end. I’m glad Lucus and I started practicing and learning the song before we got the assignment, we probably wouldn’t have gotten this far, considering all the memorizing involved.

Core Competencies Reflection

During this project, the core competencie shown is communication. My friend Lucus and I had to work together as often as possible to make this work. The very first time we played it together, it was clear we needed to improve on communication and reverse more. The amount of hours we threw into this song was countless, outside of on our own and together school the few times together, criticizing specific sections, especially the last forty bars of the song. It took many tries to correct and fix the sound and timing of it. I think the final product sounded good.

The skills I learned from this experience is how to put together a song with other people. Growing on communication skills and collaboration. Overall this was a fun experience! This was my first small ensemble amd solo project that wasn’t being interfered by covid19. I hope at my new school we do this project because this was really fun!

Stress Bingo and Web Map Reflection

Posted on June 14, 2022 by Mariechen

How many stress management tips did you do this past week? What were they? I hung out with my friends, it was nice, no stress, we just talked and whatnot.
What core competencies did you demonstrate with this Disorders Web Map Assignment? Creative thinking. I used this by learning about things that interest me, which was psychological disorders and forced my mind to be creative and make everything I’ve learned onto a piece of paper which had to look nice. I had trouble with figuring out how to place all the subheadings and categories together to make the project not look cramped.

Sensation and Perception Experiment

Posted on May 16, 2022 by Mariechen

What hypothesis did you come up with for your sensation and perception experiment? What are your findings?
Hypothesis- If people cannot have physical contact with an object, then it will make it more difficult to recognize the object. On our findings we can to the conclusion that this theory is true, people have difficulty identifying objects when they have a barrier blocking their touch sensation.
What core competencies did you demonstrate with this assignment?
Communication, as a group we had to express our ideas together. During the actual experimenting process we had to verbally explain and communicate what data we were collecting from our test subjects. As well as learning from the other groups about what their experiments were.

Psychology Research

Posted on February 18, 2022 by Mariechen

What hypothesis did you come up with for your research (survey) assignment? That using an alarm makes people more tired then people using no alarm.
What are your findings? The average mean of people who use alarms is 2.1 and wake up more tired.
What core competencies did you demonstrate with this assignment? Communication

What makes us who we are

Posted on June 17, 2020 by Mariechen

I planned for my meal to be… hash browns, scrambled eggs, and a smoothie. The hash browns were thoroughly cooked and salty. The eggs were fluffy and soft. The smoothie I made had a lot of caramel ice cream in it and milk(which drowned out some of the sweetness), I added a little bit of my moms vanilla coffee cream because we ran out of vanilla a week ago, and I forgot about it. I also added some raspberries which made it pink, it was hard to taste the raspberries.

I had nothing to compare my meal with because I made it up, didn’t follow anything. I experimented and it turned out great! I could improve on the size of the hash browns because they were so big and took so long to cook. But I rather have big chunks of hash brown, so I can have a soft, moist hash brown. My knife cutting skills have improved so much over this semester, it takes very little time to cut potatoes, I find it easy(not because of the size I cut it.)

How does this food identify you? Well, the sweet drink I made could represent me by being kind and creative. The hash browns could say that I don’t “Judge a book by it’s cover” because they are all different shapes and sizes. The scrambled eggs can say I don’t have to be just 1 thing, like the eggs could have been in any form and still be the same eggs, just a little bit different taste and form. But it’s still an egg, meaning I could be many things like an artist, a bookworm, animal lover, all different but I’d still be the same person. It represents my culture if you put it this way: I am from many parts of the world, from Germany, Canada, Scotland, altogether it goes well(don’t get technical with me people just don’t); the food is all different, but it goes together and makes 1 good thing.

My parents enjoyed the food I made, I thought the food was good. But now I’ve got no ice cream to eat.

Cooking at home 8

Posted on June 5, 2020 by Mariechen

My sister and I made snickerdoodle cookies and oatmeal chocolate chip cookies! She requested the cookies to be red, her favorite color. She had reminded me after I mixed everything so I kept over mixing it to make it red. I could improve on my memory of putting the colors in before over mixing. The best success is that it tasted good. On the oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, I had thought they weren’t cooked and put it in for an extra 5 minutes, heh, that burnt them. Apparently the cookies were just warm and perfect but I ruined them sort of. Luckily on the snickerdoodle cookies I learned that it was not under cooked but just warm and sticky. Oops 🤭 heheh.

Cooking at home 7

Posted on May 30, 2020 by Mariechen

I made pumpkin pie, my sister Molly helped with the filling. It was warm when I tasted it, also very soft. Every holiday me and my family would all get together for dinner, for dessert they’d always made pies, pumpkin pie and another random pie. Last time we all had dinner together as a whole family was about 2 years ago, but that’s for another story. The best part when we had our family gatherings for dinner, was playing ping pong with my older cousins, or aunts. There would be so many different foods, brussel sprouts to turkey and jelly, all sorts. I think most of us looked forwards to the food, it was always so amazing. But my favorite was the pumpkin pie, and that’s why I chose it for this project. A challenge was making the crust, it was difficult to spread it over the pie pan. I would say my greatest success here is the final product, it tasted like the pie we’d eat on holidays. I’m proud of making this and getting it done before dinner (which was fish and chips!).

Cooking at home 6

Posted on May 23, 2020 by Mariechen

I made this at like 21:00, and was very tried, I almost forgot to take a photo of it. Anyways, I was board and decided to make brownies after this extremely long day, like it has been more of a long, long week. It didn’t occur to me that I should have waited for it to cool down like the instructions said. Very melt-y and chocolaty, it didn’t taste as chocolaty in the morning, which I decided to give my sisters some, they have know idea there is still some left. Which I’ll eat after this. I doubled the recipe, but not the amount of chocolate chips… that would have been way to much. This filled in my free-time. It was good, glad I snatched a photo of these instructions at school during class time.

Cooking at home 4