Curricular Response

The building of the golf tower and egg drop lab improved my understanding of the scientific method by solidifying my understanding of the concepts like making a conclusion and creating a hypothesis. Before the 2 labs were done, my understanding of the scientific method was decent, but not great. I struggled with making a conclusion and hypothesis in the golf tower challenge, and it showed in my mark. But for the egg drop challenge, my understanding was really solidified, and my mark improved along with it.

Core Competency Self Assessment and Creative Thinking

I am the most proud of the golf tower challenge because we were able to build a structure that was standing and able to support the golf ball. The main challenge we faced was keeping the structure standing without falling over. We overcame this challenge by adding a cone around the base of the tower that would keep it in place. When I started the golf tower challenge lab, I felt somewhat confident in my ability with the scientific method, but doing the golf tower and egg drop lab really solidified my understanding. I demonstrated my ability to create things and build off of others’ ideas when I was building the golf tower and egg drop as a modified my design from the prototype by replacing straws with paper. When trying new things, I expect setbacks and failures and use the to develop my ideas. An example of this from the scientific method labs would be when the egg drop challenge didn’t survive the fall so in my reflection I thought of new ideas for how to make the dropper survive the fall.