By: Avery

Curricular Response

I learned so much more by using the scientific method on the golf tower and the egg drop. I think by visually learning, it made me understand the Scientific method even more. For the News paper tower we had to start off small then make it taller and taller but as it got taller it got less stronger. For the egg drop I had to make a creation that would have a soft landing and cushion for the egg while it falls the 18 feet. Using the scientific method on these two projects showed me how to write a hypothesis, how to find what the independent variable is and dependent variable, how to find the controlled variable and to write about your conclusion and say if your hypothesis is supported or not supported.

Core Company Self Assessment And Creative Thinking

Its Important to celebrate our accomplishments. Which Scientific Method lab are you most proud? I’m most proud of the news paper tower because we got to see everyone’s towers get higher and higher. It was a motivation for us to get our higher then others towers. we got 4’6 and I’m super proud of that.

What strategies did you use to overcome those challenges? We noticed that we used up all our paper but we were able to switch out the rolls of paper on the bottom (base) of our tower and put 3 strips of paper so instead we can take those 3 rolls of paper and put them on out tower to add Hight.

Describe your experience with understanding of the scientific method by doing the 2 labs. My experience was very good while doing the two labs, I was able to understand how to make a hypothesis, how to find the independent variable and dependent variable, and controlled variable. At the very end we also add our conclusion, and write if our hypothesis is supported or not.

Tell me how you did the following:

A) I demonstrated that I can create new things when I… showed that I can make different creations like how I Made my tower all out of 10 pieces of news paper and 50cm of tape, all in under and hour. My egg drop creation I used 1 piece of news paper, 3 straws, small square of newspaper and some tape.

B) I demonstrated that I can build on the ideas of others when I… Observe and see what every one else is doing and maybe get ideas from my peers. During the making of our towers I was observing and looking at others designs and I noticed that everyone was making there design very thin and not as strong. So me and my group we tried to make our tower a bit more taller by making the legs of our tower more closer in to add Hight to out tower, But it made out tower very weak.

C) When trying new things, I expect setbacks and failure and use them to develop my ideas. An example of this from the scientific method labs would be… In the egg drop I saw all the winners creations were all cone shaped with straws on the outside. So if we ever get the chance to do egg drop again I would do a cone shaped creation for my egg.