For this assignment we made a ball launcher, the supplies we used were four cups, but only used two and a quarter, one ruler, one rubber band and a roll of tape. We also made a receiver and that was two boxes made of folded paper.

For this assignment we made a tower out of ten pieces of newspaper, 50cm of tape, a golf ball and had a goal of making the tallest tower which can hold a golf ball. Me and my partner made our tower 3’3 ft which did not win, but we had a lot of fun.

Curricular Response

Something a learned from the ball launcher was that using rubber bands made our ball go further, but our group made our receiver to small so unfortunately it couldn’t catch our ball long distance, but if we had made it bigger it could have done a lot better. This experiment also taught me more about the scientific method because we also got a booklet we had to fill out so this whole experiment was helpful. For the newspaper tower I also learned about the scientific method, but also leaned that even though newspaper is really thin we can make a tower that can hold a golf ball and how useful supports are in a tower and for this we also got a booklet.

Core Competency Self Assessment And Creative Thinking

The scientific lab I am most proud of is the newspaper tower challenge because my partner and I did not think we would do so good even though we didnt get the highest tower we were proud of our selves and had alot of fun. I was proud of this lab because we worked together very well and had a good plan and practiced before so I am proud of that. A few challenges we had were that our tower was leaning to one side so what we do to fix it was add paper under the base we it would becomes even again and another challenge we had was our tower would just fall over so we thought of adding paper as supports the way we did this was by rolling paper up and taping it to our tower so it can stand. My experience with understaing the scientific method with these two labs were how it works because before i new what it was, but now i understand it alot better because with these two labs we had to right a hypothesis we had to right a conclusion we had the right what all the varibles were so that helped me learn it alot better. I demonstrated that I can create new things because I built a laucnher and receiver and a newspaper tower. I demonstarted that i can build of the ideas of others because when we wokred a groups/partners for these labs my group thought of ideas and we built of each others ideas and each ideas wold be better and better each time. When I try new things i expect setbacks and a example of this in my lab was during the laucnher and receiver lab our receiverwas way to small so we failed on the receiver, but now i learned to make it bigger because it cant the ball in a long distance.