September 30

Learning the Scientific Method: Self Assessment

Golf Tower Challenge

I do not have access to any photos of our FINAL tower, I have photos of our prototype, but we completely changed our design in the end.

Egg Drop Challenge

This photo is taken from about a 40° angle from the length side of the device. The photo shows the inside of the device. In the photo you can see the egg of the Egg Drop Project.
This photo is taken from about a 20° angle from the length side of the device. The photo shows part of the outside and a slight view to the inside of the device.
This photo is taken from the length side of the device. The photo only shows the outside of the device.

Curricular Response

The egg dropper and the golf tower challenge helped me understand the scientific method by doing a few things. 1. The Egg Dropper helped me understand the scientific method by showing me that even if you’re hypothesis is justified and good you can still mess up on the experiment showing that you will need to do the experiment more than once. 2. The Golf Tower challenge helped me understand by showing that you and your partner should discuss your plan before jumping to the experimenting process. (meaning that you should focus on planning and making a good plan rather than jumping into the experiment unprepared.) 3. The Egg Dropper helped me understand by showing me not to always expect what I think will happen in the ending will always happen.

Core Competency Self Assessment and Creative Thinking

I am proud of my Egg Dropper out of the two. I feel how I thought to make it was a good idea I just did not execute it as well as I had hoped to. I made sure to keep some extra material aside incase it were to all fail so I would still have something remaining. A challenge I had to work around was not having a part of a material, it ended up disappearing so I had to make my project without it. I overcame that challenge by saving my materials to make sure nothing was wasted. Doing the two challenges I learned more about the whole Scientific Method all the steps. I demonstrated that I can create new things by making the two projects successful enough to be judged in the competitions. I demonstrated that I can build on others ideas when my Golf Tower challenge was falling apart I tried to keep part of my partners idea in mind while coming up with ideas of my own to try to make it better. 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 me expecting my Golf Tower to fail due to the fact of lacking communication.

-Blake 09/29/23

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September 30

Digital Footprint

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Your digital footprint is a big part of your past, present, and future self. Your past being what you have said, done, or posted in the past. Present is what you are currently letting the world see that you post. And for your future, post-secondary schools and jobs will be looking into your digital footprint to see if you are a person who will look good in their space, meaning if you post some inappropriate stuff they may not think that is a good look for their space that they have created. Staying safe on the internet is another thing that is needed, it can also contribute to your digital footprint. Keeping your digital footprint safe has somethings you must do like, thinking before you post, keeping your accounts private with only family and closer friends. Once something is posted to the internet it is there forever, even if you delete it yourself. Be smart when you are posting, you never know what can happen. Our generation has gotten phones and social media at young ages, so we are lucky to be learning about our digital footprint, and the kids nowadays who are born and at the age of five having social medias need to be taught too so they can grow up with a stable and successful future. If you have not started already you need to start looking out for your future and focusing on your digital footprint. Remember to stay safe on the internet.

-Blake 09/29/23

Security, Canadian Centre for Cyber. “Digital Footprint (ITSAP.00.133).” Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, 12 Jan. 2022, https://www.cyber.gc.ca/en/guidance/digital-footprint-itsap00133.

“Your Digital Footprint: What Is It and How Can You Manage It?” Rasmussen University, https://www.rasmussen.edu/student-experience/college-life/what-is-digital-footprint/. Accessed 29 Sept. 2023.

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