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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.
I think that the temperature of the room does affect how fast the odor travels through the air. My evidence is if the temperature of the room is really cold, it will freeze the odor a little bit, which will make it harder for the odor to move. Another reason is yes, because if it’s really hot, there won’t really be anything holding the odor back from traveling across the room.
Civil War Speed Dating Reflection
What role did your character play in causing the Civil War? He ended up siding with the South (The people that wanted slavery), because if he freed the slaves, he would become a slave.
Did your Character believe in slavery? Why? Why not? He didn’t like slavery, but he knew if he freed the slaves, he would become a slave, so he ended up siding with the south.
Does your character believe that the government should have power to tell states what to do? Yes because he was the president, and if the states had state rights they could leave whenever they wanted to.
What other person/people does your character believe is most at fault for causing the war? The people that sided with the south.
Do you like the character you were assigned? Why? I like him because he doesn’t like slavery, though I also don’t like him because he’s kind of selfish because he was worried that he’s become a slave if he freed a bunch of slaves, and most of those slaves, have been slaves for a long time.
San Diego Breakout Reflection
- How did having limited time to play the game impact your teamwork? It kind got some of us stressed out, which made us want to split up so we would be able to get it done faster.
- What strategies might you use to help this? Maybe not watching the timer.
- What tips would you suggest to others? 1. Make sure that you click on everything. 2. Think outside the box. 3. Don’t take it too seriously. 4. Don’t stress. 5. Don’t overthink it.
- How did having limited time impact or shape your thinking during the game? It kind of made me rush a little more than usual, because it made me worry about this Blog Post, and not finishing in time.
- What strategies might you use to support your thinking?
- 1. Making sure that I click on everything. 2. Think outside the box. 3. Don’t take it too seriously. 4. Don’t stress. 5. Don’t overthink it.
- What strategies might you use to support your thinking?
- In what way(s) were your critical thinking and strategies different during the timed games than they were during the initial games? The strategies were more focused on the timer.
What Top 3 strategies/tips would you suggest to others when playing a timed game? 1. Not watching the timer. 2. Try not to get stressed. 3. Pretend that there’s no timer.
Minecraft Reflection
- What did you notice or observe during this challenge? That some of the questions took a while for me and my group to figure out and then I split up from my group, because we argued too much.
- What kind of questions did you ask yourself (meta)? Is there anything else for me to click on, and did I do/listen to all of their clues.
- What was your “aha” moment during this challenge? How did this impact finishing the challenge? When my friend gave me a clue and then I realized what I should do nearly right away.
- How did this challenge compare to the other two we have completed?The question took a lot longer.
- What was the most challenging aspect of this challenge? The 8 word lock until my friend gave me a clue.
- 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) Using the sites clues, and making sure that we/I clicked on everything.
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. It compared with it because the slave one that was 1st hand was from a different point of view.
What was one new thing you learned from reading these stories? I leaned that the slave masters beat on kid slaves also.
Did reading these stories from slaves change your perspective? How so? Yes, because it told me that they tortured kids too.
How do you think that the stories of slaves relates to our essential question of “Why do people move?” ? I think that it relates because maybe slavery is the reason that some people move.
Why did slaves move? Be specific in your answer. Maybe because they don’t want to be slaves.
Silly Shamrocks Reflection
- What did you notice or observe during this challenge? I noticed and observed that the start of each challenge it was really hard, but then it started to get easier.
- What kind of questions did you ask yourself (meta)? Am I thinking outside the box?
- How did the time limit impact your ability to solve this breakout session? It stressed me out a little, but it also helped me think harder.
- What were your biggest connections when solving this challenge? A connection was that this challenge was kind like the other challenge.
- What was the most challenging aspect of this challenge? Starting each lock.
- What two strategies helped you and your team the most when completing the challenge? 1. Thinking outside of the box.