These pictures show me, and my partner Lauren’s egg drop device named yolk, and my drawing of my 6ft and 9 inches golf ball tower.

Curricular Response

While creating my egg droppers and golf tower I started to understand more what the scientific method process is like. the packages that made me create and include a hypothesis, drawing, prototypes, and conclusion helped me a lot on reminding me what you have to do for the scientific method. Trying to figure out how I wanted to build my tower and egg dropper also made me think more about what would work out better for me. My golf tower worked out well it ended up being 6’9ft but when my group was making a practice tower it ended up much taller because the base was way wider than the top. As for my egg device, I learned that it’s better to make a big parachute rather than try and suffocate your egg in cushioning. Overall, I think I learned a lot from the two labs.

Core Competency Self Assessment and Creative Thinking

I most proud of my golf ball tower because me and my partner got it to be 6’9ft, we also put a lot of thought and effort into what we were creating. I believe we did a good job, even if we didn’t get the most amount of points, we still tried our best.

When me and my partner were having troubles, specifically keeping our gold ball tower up. We decided to take down one of the top pieces of newspaper to make it easier for the golf ball to balance on the top without tipping our whole tower over. As for me and my partners egg dropper some of the taped newspaper parts were unsticking because of the little amount of tape we used, we had a lot of tape left so after building the finished product we taped a piece of paper to the sides to act as a parachute and taped the places that were unsticking to each other.

My experience with the two science labs were great, I learned how to construct a proper tower, that parachutes are better than being capsulated during a fall/drop, how to better my writing for hypothesizes, how to identify a problem, lab safety, and so much more. The most important thing I learned though is how the scientific method works. It starts off with figuring out the problem, creating a hypothesis, making your creation, testing your creation, and then lastly writing a conclusion.

A) I demonstrated that I can create new things when I …

create my own prototypes and build a testing device.

B) I demonstrated that I can build on the ideas of others when I …

Take inspiration from their builds, look online what towers look like, and create something similar to what has already been built before.

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 …

Testing out my egg dropper device that was covering the egg fully trying to cushion it, then afterwards realizing when people are skydiving, they instead use parachutes to help them fall slower and ease the fall.