Month: March 2020

Here is my misconception project from science expo!Misconception

This week, I’ve been working really hard with Avery to make a solar system. It has been super fun and were really excited about it. First, we did research on the order of the planets. Now we are making clay planets and its really cool because were blending them so they’re like marble. Next we painted a piece of card board to make it look galaxy. When we finish we are going to hang them from the board with string. The planets look really nice so far!
I have really enjoyed working with Avery because we collaborate well. We have both been doing the work together and making compromises. I think the hardest part for us was making a scale. We couldn’t figure out what size we could do that is accurate and reasonable. It has been cool to do multiage because we aren’t used to working with younger kids so we see a new kind of thinking. I think it was cool to be with kids in other grades because we have different things we are used to. I learned from Avery because she was good at different things then I am.

This past week was the science expo! We had to make hovercrafts as a class. We had done it before, so we were able to start them quick. We remembered how to do everything and the first day of building was very quick. We were able to cut the plastic, tape the plastic, and make holes all in one day. Savannah hadn’t made them before so we got to teach her. It was really cool to teach someone else because it helped me understand it more myself.
The next day we got to test them and as expected, they weren’t working at first. It was fine, we made more holes in the bottom and added more tape because the air was not leaving quick enough. When we tried to make more holes it wasn’t working because there was too much air leaving. We found out that we had made holes on the top so the air was leaving but it wasn’t helping float the hover craft. We tried to tape those holes but the tape was just ripping. It was very frustrating, but we had to take it apart and restart the Day of science expo. it ended up working fine and it was a good learning process.