So, I'm not sure if I was supposed to post about our mini culminations, I'll do it anyway:
Mini Culmination Try1:
We had this two Fridays ago. I was the robotics person on the Earth base (the lab), and I helped Clara with communications and Alice with the launch. On our 1st try, the launch broke, so we replaced it with the spare launch, but by the time we had got it set up again, our time was up, so we never finished. Over all, our group worked really well, and I thought that everyone did a really great job, because even though the 6th graders were being a little noisy, and we didn't figure out the mission until a little towards the end, and we were having a really hard time. I know that we did a good job, put our best foot forward, and I'm really proud of the effort we put forth.
Mini Culmination Try 2:
We had this last Friday. It was just as fun as the last one, and we had more time to touch up before the day came. This time, I was communications, because one of the girls in our group was going to get braces on that day, and also because I switched with Maddy. I worked with Maddy and Kimmy at the Earth base (the lab) to launch the pieces needed into space. We had to launch the pieces into a little basket on a robot, and then Kimmy was supposed to go and turn the robot on, and send it to Taryn who was the Mars base (the hallway). I think our group did a pretty good job, because even though we couldn't get the pieces into the robot, our communication skills were pretty great, and we all tried really hard, and we were short two people, and everyone was a good sport. Even though we didn't finish (like last time) and I had been hoping that we could finish, the extra prep gave us more time, and we pulled it off far better then I expected we would.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Monday, November 5, 2007
Mini Culmination2
Okay. I totally forgot that we were supposed to be posting what we were doing in class on the blogs, so I'm going to do an update on what we've been doing since I last posted about this project.
The second class period we had, I worked on my parachute, and made the second sail for it, and I looked for some cardboard to tie at the bottom so that something could be attached to that. I needed help with testing it out, so after I worked on it, and it was ready to test out, Alice came out and helped me. It worked really well, and now the parachute is all ready. The parachute was made out of two sails, a piece of cardboard, and string. I taped two erasers onto it to practice tossing it down the stairs. The 1st sail (the one on top) is just a square that has a circle in the middle of it, and it is tied to the 2nd sail (the one on the bottom) which is basically a rectangle on it's side, so that when you look on it from a bird's eye view, it looks like a drawing of a 2-dimensional rectangle. The cardboard is just a rectangle with two holes in it, and is attached to the 2nd sail, and that's where the objects being thrown down will be attached to. After that, I went and helped her with her project. We got pretty far, so that I at least knew a little how it worked, and then the class ended.
So, the third time that we did this, since I was done with the parachute, and Emma needed help, I helped her with her project. I helped her to make a basket, and attach balloons to it, and make it run on the line. We had many trials and failures, but in the end it just wouldn't work out.
The fourth class time we had, I worked on Emma's thing with Kimmy, because Emma was sick. We changed the design a little bit, but the better half of the class was spent looking for the basket. Then I attached the basket to the string, and tried to make it go on the line. This time too, was a failure, as was the time after that, and the time after that. We just couldn't seem to make the basket go more than 3 feet.
The fifth class time (today) was spent trying to work on Alice's project which was neglected. I couldn't get that to work either, and I spent my whole time working really really really hard on it, but I just couldn't make it work. I'm going to try again in a little bit, during homework center, but the mini-culmination is this Friday, and I don't know if my team is prepared.
I'm going to have to work really hard today at homework center! Harder then I've ever worked before!
The second class period we had, I worked on my parachute, and made the second sail for it, and I looked for some cardboard to tie at the bottom so that something could be attached to that. I needed help with testing it out, so after I worked on it, and it was ready to test out, Alice came out and helped me. It worked really well, and now the parachute is all ready. The parachute was made out of two sails, a piece of cardboard, and string. I taped two erasers onto it to practice tossing it down the stairs. The 1st sail (the one on top) is just a square that has a circle in the middle of it, and it is tied to the 2nd sail (the one on the bottom) which is basically a rectangle on it's side, so that when you look on it from a bird's eye view, it looks like a drawing of a 2-dimensional rectangle. The cardboard is just a rectangle with two holes in it, and is attached to the 2nd sail, and that's where the objects being thrown down will be attached to. After that, I went and helped her with her project. We got pretty far, so that I at least knew a little how it worked, and then the class ended.
So, the third time that we did this, since I was done with the parachute, and Emma needed help, I helped her with her project. I helped her to make a basket, and attach balloons to it, and make it run on the line. We had many trials and failures, but in the end it just wouldn't work out.
The fourth class time we had, I worked on Emma's thing with Kimmy, because Emma was sick. We changed the design a little bit, but the better half of the class was spent looking for the basket. Then I attached the basket to the string, and tried to make it go on the line. This time too, was a failure, as was the time after that, and the time after that. We just couldn't seem to make the basket go more than 3 feet.
The fifth class time (today) was spent trying to work on Alice's project which was neglected. I couldn't get that to work either, and I spent my whole time working really really really hard on it, but I just couldn't make it work. I'm going to try again in a little bit, during homework center, but the mini-culmination is this Friday, and I don't know if my team is prepared.
I'm going to have to work really hard today at homework center! Harder then I've ever worked before!
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