ogs Adventure

Posted on 27th February 2019 by akatch22

What did you notice or observe during the challenge? How hard it was to find the websites.

What kind of questions did you ask yourself (meta)? where were other people at in their challenge and the answer

When did you first begin drawing connections between the different puzzles and pictures? first problem because we were under pressure.

What were those connections? bonding with other people.

What were your biggest clues? hints from teachers

What was the most challenging? 9-word lock

What was your biggest ah-ha moment? Why? 9-word lock because it was challenging.

clue post

Posted on 25th February 2019 by akatch22

What thinking moves did you use when playing this game (questioning, connecting, listening, observing, deducing, reasoning, etc? Looking at people bleeding their cards.

How did organizing your information impact your experience playing the game? I have played clue before with my parents.

Where else do you use these thinking skills (at school, at home, on sports teams, etc)? finding who murdered someone with what and where.

When might you need this kind of thinking? if someone was murdered like someone in my family. So I would be the detective.

causes of slavery

Posted on 24th February 2019 by akatch22

Answer the following questions in your blog. Take your time, and answer each question with at least two sentences.

What were 3 causes for slavery? (this answer can be bullet points) rivalry racism trickery

What did white slave owners use their slaves for? Why? work and to make more slaves

What crops did slaves harvest? Why these crops? because they need food

Where were most slaves from? Why? Africa because they were Africans

Why did so many slaves move to the colonies? Was this their choice? Explain. so that thay dont have to do work

Why were there so many slaves in the colonies? to get out of slave work

First Clue

Posted on 10th February 2019 by akatch22

What did you notice or observe during the game? I notice that after someone asked a question to you, you don’t show everybody your card.
What kind of questions did you ask yourself (meta)? What did other people have card wise and if I was the murder or not.
When did you first begin drawing connections between different characters, clues, pieces of information? When people suspected me and others.
What were those connections? They were people that had the same theory as me.
What were your biggest clues? knowing the weapon and who.
What information seems most important to collect? The most important information was knowing who and with what weapon.
*What is the difference between an observation and information? Observation is sort of like a guess. Information is what we know for sure.

Title: Cornell Notes Reflection

Posted on 25th January 2019 by akatch22

Category: Social Studies

Did you use the websites provided to you for this activity? Did they help? Explain. Not really because of some websites did not work

How do you think you can use your Cornell notes in the future? For research and tests/quizzes

What are 3 new things you learned from researching the colonies in this way? (This one you can just bullet point if you’d like) they turned into states and there were stories and very dark things

Why did we do this activity? to learn about colines

How did you research for this activity? using google

What were the biggest challenges you encountered during this activity? finding the right website

How did you overcome your challenges? searching every website

Testing our Rapunzel creations

Posted on 14th January 2019 by akatch22

What materials did you choose for your build and why?

pipe cleaners rope paper model magic for Rapunzel

Here is a picture of my plan: sorry does not work

Here is a picture of my first attempt at the building process: doesn’t work I’m sorry

While you test:

What are you noticing?

Rapunzel weighs much

What things are working?

tree chair

What things are not working?

rope and Rapunzel

How will you tweak this? Make this better? (Be specific and detailed!)

tighten rope remake Repunzel

Do you need any new materials? If so, WHY? NO! just fixing materials.

Sketch your new design with labels on a piece of paper. Make sure your drawing is detailed and specifically labeled.

Insert your sketch here:

Why will this new design work better than your first attempt? What is your evidence? fixing materials like Rapunzel and the zip line evidence picture.

Building a Insulator

Posted on 9th January 2019 by akatch22

This week in science, we worked in teams to create a water bottle insulator that kept the water inside the bottle the coldest for the longest amount of time. First, we planned what we would need, how we would build it, and sketched our first design. Next, we tested our design to see how well our insulator worked. Below you will see the results and how we will improve our first insulator to make it even better!

An insulator is… something transfers heat energy slower

Here is a picture of our original design:

The materials we used were… foil foam cup rubber band tape

Results! What was the temperature of your water to begin with? After 15 minutes? After 35 minutes? 55 start after 51

Time	Temperature (in Fahrenheit)
0 minutes	51
After 15 minutes	53
After 35 minutes	55

The engineering process includes thinking about how to make your design better and re-building your product. The improvements that we will make to our insulator are…

MORE TAPE AND FOIL

These changes will improve my insulator because… because it will stay cold

New results:

Time	Temperature (in Fahrenheit)
0 minutes	40
After 15 minutes	43
After 35 minutes	44

Predicting the Size of the Result

Posted on 7th January 2019 by akatch22

Here is the word problem my partner and I solved:
Here is a picture of my visual that represents the problem:
Here is my equation(s) with a variable to represent the unknown amount:
When predicting my answer, I know my answer will be smaller or larger because…larger because of cutting in it into more pieces.
Here is a picture of the work I did to solve the problem:
My answer and label are…120 pieces

Yoshi has a rope 30 feet long. He must cut it into pieces that are each ¼ foot long. Will he get more or fewer than 30 pieces? How do you know? How many pieces will Yoshi get?