Before the Chicken

  • What has been most helpful to you in this process? My group already had the same idea so it took like 2 minutes to copy our idea from the other plans and we usually work together so that helped a lot too.
  • How can Gev. Noorlander help you in the future work of this project? Maybe if our group is having trouble, then we might need you to help us do them.
  • How do you think working with a group will be helpful to you? If I don’t wanna put salt in the chicken, then someone else in my group can help. Also, the people in my group I work very well in so that makes it easier too.

First Chicken Plan

How did your research guide your plan? My plan materials and steps are all from my research that I did so it made a big part in my plan.

What information do you still need to find? I think that when I make my plan with my whole group, I’ll put a few more steps to make it make more sense.

What new information did you find as you planned? A lot of new information especially about how much your chicken should weight.

How do you think this plan will work with your group members? I already read a few people’s plans and they are very similar to mine.

How can you make sure every person’s voice is heard in the group? We should make jobs for everyone so everyone has a part in the project.

Golf Ball Challenge

How did the chance to try again make you feel? It made me feel like I could improvise my plan.
How did the chance to try again help your team? Or hurt your team? Last time I didn’t really try my hardest so getting to do it again meant that I could try my best this time. And now this time we actually did the challenge and it actually worked!
What have you learned about yourself as a team member? Sometimes I get off track or just give up instantly and now I think I might work on trying my hardest like today and stop getting off track.

Reflection for challenges in ETC so far

When I started ETC this year I didn’t have a growth mindset and I wasn’t participating much. Like in the pringles challenge I kept on getting a fixed mindest and I stayed that way for the rest of class. But now I’m using a growth mindset and even when I’m frustrated now I just forget it and get back to work instead of keeping a fixed mindset. And also now I have been participating more and sharing my ideas more instead of letting others do the work.  Like in the cups challenge I was working good with my partners and we ended up making a big tower because we were all sharing our ideas and participated the most we could. And I had a good time doing the cup challenge now that I had a growth mindset.

High Holidays Reflection

In the past few weeks, we have been in groups answering a question about the high holidays. My question was What is the difference between Yom Kippur Services then and now?

1. Why did I pick my topic? I didn’t this question as a yes on the sheet to sign up so I didn’t really want this one but it ended up being fun anyway.
2. What was the main idea that I learned that I did not know before? I truly didn’t know anything about this topic so I learned a lot of new things which was cool. Which means it was good that I didn’t get one that I picked on the sheet.
3. What did I find interesting and enjoyed doing my project? I thought it was really cool to see how Jews used to be in the Holy temple and what they did.
4. How did doing my project enhance or influence my high holiday experience? When I went to Yom Kippur I really imagined that I was at the Holy temple praying and it was very meaningful to me.

Timeline Reflection

What did you think of your finished product? I think that my finished timeline is very good and is what I wanted it to be like. Everyone else wanted to put actual pictures in except for me because I wanted to make it all drawings because from the timelines examples online that I saw, they were all drawings on the timeline.

How did this challenge you? I’m not very good at drawings but I still wanted to do the drawings anyway so that was my biggest problem. Also a few times I made some noticeable mistakes that I had to find out a way to fix them which was also very hard. Overall this wasn’t a very big challenge for me.

What was easy about this for you? I have some-what good handwriting so it was easy for people to be able to read my timeline. Even though my first few drawings were very hard after those they were very easy.

Dissecting Fish Reflection

  • What did you learn about the perch? The perch were very small but they had a lot more parts in their body than the sea lamprey. The perch had very rough skin and the color was a grayish color. They also had hearts that were the size of a pea and a greenish-grayish color. The perches insides were spread all over the place. The perches had big eyes and were very easy to see compared to the sea lamprey.
  • What did you learn about the sea lamprey? The sea lamprey were very weird. They were a light gray color and were very slimy. I noticed that they didn’t have hearts. They also had some very sharp teeth that were a bright red color. I also noticed that they didn’t have any eyes which made me wonder how they see or if they even need to see anything because they go onto to the fish and suck their blood to get food. The insides were also stuck together and way closer than the perch.  

 

 

Lake Geneva Trip

What did you think about team building activities? They were fun but hard because most of the kids in my group I don’t usually hang out with. Because of that, I made a bunch of new friends on the trip.
How did your mindset change throughout the day? At the start of the day, I was very scared to go zip lining but eventually realized it would be very fun. And at the end of the day, I was so happy that I tried doing zip lining.
How did you feel as others cheered you on? I couldn’t really hear people cheer me on but, I cheered on others who I know where scared to make them feel better.
How did you feel before zip lining? After? Before zip lining, I was scared that I’d flop and get hurt. After zip lining, I realized that I had so much fun and if I didn’t do it I would have regretted not doing it.
What was fun? Exciting? The first time doing the zip line I was very scared even though I realized it was more fun than scary.
What was frustrating? Challenging? In the team-building challenges, some of the people wouldn’t listen to me and others even though I was talking to them. So next time I would try to stand up even more than last time and make sure that they listened to the whole group.
Was it what you expected? Yes- why? No- what was different? Yes, I was expecting team-building like it was and the zip lining being very scary.
Would you do it again? Why? No, I feel like if I did it again I would be bored next time because it would be the same thing.

ETC challenges

What were your biggest takeaways (biggest ideas/thoughts) from these challenges?

That these challenges are a lot harder this year than last year. Or maybe it’s because when we were 5th graders the 6th graders took over and now that’s our job.

What was challenging about these challenges? My groups where with people I’m usually not with. And because of that, we had some troubles.
What was comfortable about these challenges? I always say that ideas are easiest because I always like to imagine ideas before we do the work so I have a bunch of ideas.
How did you work in a team? Because I’m usually not with these people it was very challenging to work together. Some of the kids liked to mess around which made it harder too.
What were your areas of strength as a group? We all had very good ideas. And a lot of our ideas were very similar which made it easy to make our big idea for our challenge.
What were your areas of growth as a group? All of my groups had a least 2 people that where getting distracted or not helping with the group.
What did you enjoy about these challenges? Why? I liked trying to do the challenges and F.A.I.L.ing and then trying again. It was fun because we were always so close before it broke and we got to try different ideas because of this.
What was frustrating? Why? When our ideas broke at the last second. A few times we would be done then at the last second it would break and we wouldn’t have a model of the challenge answer.

Science This Week

 

  • What challenge excited you the most? Why? The paper tower challenge. It was the only challenge where we had to make up the whole idea like in Save Fred we had some background knowledge of what was going on. Also, are ideas kept breaking down and we finished with a half-built tower. But if we didn’t need to stop then we would have finished with a very big tower.

 

 

 

  • What was difficult about the challenges? Making our ideas. It was easy to make the ideas but when we had to make the idea it didn’t work out like how we thought it would. Also, some of the ideas were hard to do in under 15 minutes (Paper Tower Challenge). But in the end, it ended up working anyway because our tower was still pretty tall anyways.

 

 

 

  • What was comfortable about the challenges? Making ideas and being in a group. It was very easy to make ideas because before we start I think about some good ideas before we start. I always enjoy being in a group and I was put with people I am usually not with, but even though I’m usually not with them, we still all worked very good together. And had a lot of fun.