This is the ‘Mi Familia’ project for Spanish 10. This project was about creating a PowerPoint using our newly learned vocabulary to describe members of our family. This project let me display some of my strengths in spanish and some of my new words that I recently learned. This project allowed me to connect with my identity and who I am as a person. I learned about how to make decisions based on my values and personal beliefs. Next time for this project, I wish I spent more time looking over my sentences and making corrections on simple errors that could’ve been prevented.
This image is the best depiction of our (Beckett and my) tower. Our tower consists of a base, cones stacking within each other, crumpled paper to fill the cones and at the bottom, multiple tightly rolled lengths of paper to support the tower.
This is my group’s, Raffi, Leo, Beckett and me, ball launcher. It may look complex but it’s a simple design. We placed two cups on our cardboard base and taped two pencils connecting both cups together. We attached a ruler to the pencils using elastics and added a bottom cup to the end of the ruler. We used a lot of tape to prevent the cups from flying off
Curricular Response
There are 3 examples of the scientific experiment that we did in Mr. Asano’s class. The first being the mice and deli cheese experiment, the second being the newspaper tower experiment and the 3rd being the ball launcher experiment. The common factor that the newspaper tower and the ball launcher share which the mice experiment doesn’t is they can almost always be improved. The newspaper tower could be taller, the ball launcher could have shot further. And thats where the conclusion comes into play. You need to know which experiments can be improved significantly and which ones will have the same result (if done properly). The ones that can be highly improved (ball launcher and newspaper tower) didn’t have a problem. You weren’t solving for anything, contrary to the deli cheese experiment, as we were testing for a sickness inside the cheese. That’s what I find is the biggest thing in the scientific method. There’s different levels of tests you can run.
Core Competency Self Assessment and Creative Thinking
The scientific experiment lab I’m most proud of is the ball launcher experiment. In the ball launcher experiment, my group placed second whilst in the newspaper building challenge, I placed 10th. I believe this was because our design was different than most others. Our design build tension before snapping back to it’s original state. I noticed another group tried to use 2 elastics for that process, pulling back the elastics from a cup. Our group was different in the senes that we had a ruler to assist in that snapping back process, creating even more force for the ball to fly.
The largest problem from both the labs was in the ball launcher challenge during test day, our ruler broke. After a ruler broke, it took valuable time to repair it and we couldn’t get the elastics just perfect again. Fortunately, we were taking constant images of our design, so we repaired it to the best of our abilities. Even after that repair more problems emerged. The end cup on our ruler had to be removed from the broken one with it’s original tape and because of that it wasn’t nearly as sticky as it was on the original ruler.
I’ve learned about the scientific method before but with a different system. This time I learned it was more difficult as the problems we faced were much more difficult. Previously, all of our problems were solved with a yes/no answer. ‘Did the cheese make the customers ill?’ ‘Yes’. This time the questions were more advanced and had to be solved with a deeper understanding.
I demonstrated that I can create new things when I’m placed in a group of 3 because brainstorming is more advanced and consists of multiple ideas in one project. Person A could start an idea and person B could build off that idea for the next addition. Person C would say “Look, this won’t work.” and help explain why. That’s the way I find best for learning. Nobody likes shutting down their own ideas, which is why Person C is so important. If you have a group of 2, you may start to develop a plan before testing it and realizing it wouldn’t completely based off step one. Group of 4 is too crowded and one person is always left out.
I demonstrated that I can build on the ideas of others when I’m forced to realize that my idea might not work. That forces me to think of a plan B and even a plan C for the potential event of plan B not succeeding. The hardest part of building on other’s ideas is being confident enough to say something without picturing yourself being judged into the dirt.
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 developing an experiment, analyzing data and drawing a conclusion. Say you start thinking of an idea to create an experiment but you have a lack of necessary materials, you must find a creative replacement for those. Analyzing data? What if you lose all your observations. You must do the experiment over again. Drawing a conclusion, what if this result is completely different than your result last time? You must find ways to solve or understand your problems.
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My values around achieving a high academic standards will shape my decisions about how much effort I’ll put into my schoolwork social life. Especially when absent, I’ll do the most in my power to stay with the class and book the appropriate flex time to help understand the concepts.
Some of the ways I work to build and maintain online relationships consist of staying in touch, don’t open someone’s message and forget about it, never say anything sarcastic as someone on the other side of the screen can’t assess tone and finally don’t try to overcomplicate your messages with abbreviations. They might just not get it.
I make digital ethical choices such as avoiding offensive videos, memes etc… I don’t click links to random websites that my friends send me for their benefit, example when you have enough ‘invites’ you get a reward.
