Monthly Archives: November 2018

Mapping Energy Transfer

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This week in science we have been focusing on mapping energy transfers. We discussed the transfer of energy on a roller coaster, when lighting a match, when using a pull back car toy, the list goes on and on. Below you will see an energy transfer and the why/how behind it.

 

Object or thing I choose to observe: Flag on a flag pole

 

The mapping of the energy transfers: 

Motion energy to Motion energy to Elastic energy to Motion/Gravitational energy.

 

A paragraph that explains the how and why of each step of the energy transfer(s) I observed:

When you put up the flag up it is motion because you have to physically move the flag. When you tie it is motion because it is work to tie it. And then when it is moving it is motion because it the wind makes it move. And the way that it moves with wind is gravitational energy because gravity it is making it stop for a minute, which then makes it go back to motion energy to repeat.

 

Index Card Challenge

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Today’s Challenge: Using only an index card and scissors to find a way to cut your index card so you can fit your entire body through it.

 

Teamwork Rubric Focus (Organization/Planning):

 

My goal for organization/planning today within my team is my team will put our ideas on the blog.

 

My Individual Plan 

I will make it like a lasso kinda like a cube that is as thin as I can get it.

Why I think my plan will be successful: Because Cowboy’s used lassos and that was succeful.

 

Our Group’s Plan  

We cut in a zig-zag shape

We chose this plan because akasawon21 told us it would work because he tried it before.

 

Possible challenges that may come up during construction we may cut wrong or the paper could rip.

 

Each team member will be responsible for drafter, cutter and fitter.

 

After the Build

 

Our design didn’t work well because we had the idea and we made it but when I tried it on it ripped.

 

This activity was challenging because the paper could rip really easily and fall apart.

 

This activity wasn’t comfortable because paper can rip really easily so it kept on ripping every time we tried to make it.

 

I met my teamwork organization/planning goal by I put are idea up on the blog.

A strength of my team was we didn’t give up.

 

An area of growth for my team is we get a little angry when we messed up and when the paper ripped.

 

For our next challenge, my new teamwork organization/planning goal for myself is to take a picture of my draft.