Food For Thought: Temperature and Odor

 

Do you think the temperature of the room affects the time it takes an odor to get to your nose? Explain your answer. Provide two pieces of scientific reasoning to explain why.

No, I don’t think so. Odor travels by molecules in the air. Unless somehow the temperature molecules block them, I don’t see how it would affect anything. The other reason I think the temperature wouldn’t affect how long it takes an odor to travel through the air is that when I go to the beach on a hot summer day, usually you can still smell a barbecue going on outside.

Civil War Speed Dating Reflection

 

  • What role did your character play in causing the Civil War? He actually was a cause for delaying it. He was great at compromising and without him the civil war may have happened earlier.
  • Did your Character believe in slavery? Why? Why not? No, he wanted to completely abolish it in Kentucky.
  • Do you like the character you were assigned? Why? No, he was pretty boring.

San Diego Breakout Reflection

  • How did having limited time to play the game impact your teamworkI worked by myself so it did not actually impact me.
    • What strategies might you use to help this? N/A
    • What tips would you suggest to others?  Just click on everything.
  • How did having limited time impact or shape your thinking during the game? It didn’t much because I got the 1st 3 done really quickly so I had plenty of time left.
    • What strategies might you use to support your thinking? Just do it faster.
    • What tips would you suggest to others? Figutr out the easy ones and do those first.
  • In what way(s) were your critical thinking and strategies different during the timed games than they were during the initial games? You just always had to be aware of the time so that was just an extra thing to worry about.

What Top 3 strategies/tips would you suggest to others when playing a timed game?

Always be aware of the time.

Don’t let the time stress you out.

If you have 5 minutes left, just keep trying to figure out the one you’re on instead of making random guesses.

Slavery Primary Sources

 

How did the experiences of slaves first hand compare to what we have read about in the past? Were our secondary sources accurate to the slave experience? Explain.

They compare pretty well. It gave us some information that we didn’t see in the first packet. It also told us what they were thinking. Our secondary sources were pretty accurate to the slave experience.

What was one new thing you learned from reading these stories?

That there was a slave auction.

Did reading these stories from slaves change your perspective? How so?

Not much. My perspective on how they lived their lives was already so bad it was hard to get much worse.

How do you think that the stories of slaves relates to our essential question of “Why do people move?”?

Because one reason people move might be because they are forced into slavery here.

Why did slaves move? Be specific in your answer.

Because they were forced to.

MInecraft Reflection

  • What did you notice or observe during this challenge?

That it was not as hard or as long as the last challenge. The last challenge had 8 different problems and it was timed. This one only had 4.

  • What kind of questions did you ask yourself (meta)?

How far should I go to find this answer?

Am I doing the right thing?

  • What was your “aha” moment during this challenge? How did this impact finishing the challenge?

When the survey said that if I pressed submit I would know that I would be doing the right thing and not just following a dead end.

  • How did this challenge compare to the other two we have completed?

Og’s Great Adventure was pretty easy and probably compared most to this one. The shimmy shamrocks one was much longer and harder to complete.

  • What was the most challenging aspect of this challenge?

Making sure that everything I did was correct.

  • What two strategies helped you and your team the most when completing the challenge? (Use the strategy sheet for this! If you used a different strategy, list it here as well)

Everyone trying to figure out the answers on their own Chromebooks.

Silly Shamrocks Reflection

  • What did you notice or observe during this challenge?

The leprechauns were mean and kept leaving their silly shamrocks all over the place!

  • What kind of questions did you ask yourself (meta)?

Why is that wrong?

  • How did the time limit impact your ability to solve this breakout session?

It put a little more pressure on you but not much because it was pretty high.

  • What were your biggest connections when solving this challenge?

There’s another topper on his head!

  • What was the most challenging aspect of this challenge?

Figuring out how to put pictures into colors or numbers.

  • What two strategies helped you and your team the most when completing the challenge?

Never giving up on a challenge and including everyone’s suggestions.