Category Archives: Social Studies

Civil War Speed Dating Reflection

  • What role did your character play in causing the Civil War? My Character Harriet Beecher Stowe did not like slavery.

 

  • Did your Character believe in slavery? Why? Why not? My character did not believe in slavery because she did not like that innocent people were getting tortured.

 

  • Does your character believe that the government should have the power to tell states what to do? Yes, then they could have changed history and slavery.

 

 

  • Do you like the character you were assigned? Why? Yes, she is a good person and did not want slavery to not be a law.

Scientific Explanation

Scientific Question We Investigated: Does air have mass?

 

Air has mass. Before we put air into the balloon it had a mass of 1.9 grams. After blowing into the balloon it weighed 2.5 grams.  This proves that air has mass because mass is technically atoms and atoms make up the universe and world. If you have a balloon without air and you weigh it will be lighter than a balloon with air in it.  When you fill up the air in that SAME balloon you should have a bigger number because air has mass, which means the balloon will weigh more. The difference between 2.6 and 1.9 is 0.6.

 

 

Minecraft Breakout Reflection

  • What did you notice or observe during this challenge? That there were many different mini-assignments and a lot of clues.

 

  • What kind of questions did you ask yourself (meta)? How can get better at breakouts?

 

  • What was your “aha” moment during this challenge? How did this impact finishing the challenge? When I broke out.

 

  • How did this challenge compare to the other two we have completed? It was google forms like the other on and it felt the same.

 

  • What was the most challenging aspect of this challenge? When we couldn’t get something

 

  • 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) Not freak out and don’t think to hard.

Silly Shamrocks Reflection

  • What did you notice or observe during this challenge? That when your brain gets going and is warmed up that it puts less pressure on me in the 30 minutes. I feel enthusiastic when 

 

  • What kind of questions did you ask yourself (meta)? What other ways can I solve this?

 

  • How did the time limit impact your ability to solve this breakout session? It didn’t it kind of put pressure on me.

 

  • What were your biggest connections when solving this challenge? When I have big problems to solve and I don’t know how to

 

  • What was the most challenging aspect of this challenge? Working with only one partner.

 

  • What two strategies helped you and your team the most when completing the challenge? How can I make this even better?, how can I inspire others?

JSL Reflection

  • What did you learn about leadership from the Jewish Supreme Leader (JSL) election project? I learned a lot about my project or person Yitro or Jethro.
  • Through the stories of the leaders we studied, what are some positive ideas the Torah teaches us about leadership? That if someone does something beyond rude or mean you don’t go back and do the same thing.
  • What are some negative ideas the Torah teaches us about leadership? Like Balaam when he wrestled and angle.
  • If you could create the ideal JSL, what would that person be like: their qualities, their personal story, their weaknesses? Why? They would make mistakes, Be a good person, and have knowledge.
  • How do you think leadership has changed from Torah times to modern times?  How is it still similar? I don’t really think that it has changed that much.
  • How does the JSL election change the way you think about leadership?  Why? It changed when you think of something better

Og’s Great Adventures Reflection

  • What did you notice or observe during the challenge? I observed that this was harder than I thought. 

 

  • What kind of questions did you ask yourself (meta)? Where can I find the Links?

 

  • When did you first begin drawing connections between the different puzzles and pictures? Sometimes I feel like different colored Dinosaurs, Red is mad, blue is sad, yellow is fun.

 

  • What were those connections?  Those connections were to me.

 

  • What were your biggest clues? The letter “A”

 

  • What was the most challenging? The 9 number lock

 

  • What was your biggest ah-ha moment? Why? When I solved the puzzle. Because of me and my team.

Final game of Clue

  • What thinking moves did you use when playing this game (questioning, connecting, listening, observing, deducing, reasoning, etc? I sometimes only tried to find the weapon or any item for that first and then I could find the whole set.

 

  • How did organizing your information impact your experience playing the game? It showed me that documenting and taking notes is only for the better and then you get to look back and say how much better you can do.

 

  • Where else do you use these thinking skills (at school, at home, on sports teams, etc)? I use them probably everywhere for strategy and the art of what I’m doing.

 

  • When might you need this kind of thinking? At school during a test or a sports game.

 

Causes of Slavery

I think that slavery was caused by people being lazy and having people doing stuff for them without getting payed, I think its because people were racist specifically against African American’s because they didn’t like the color of there skin, and last but not least I think that people are just wanting people/African Americans to not live the life that they wanted. White slave owners thought that they were so much better than African American’s that they would whip there slaves if they weren’t working because they were lazy and very Racist. Slaves grew corn, tabbaco, potatoes,  sugar cane, etc. Slaves moved to colonies because it was not there choice the masters would load them up on a ship and have barely any room to breathe and send them across the ocean so they could suffer. Mostly slaves were from Africa but some were from England and around the U.K.. There were so many slaves because the masters needed for them to get work done and so that they could sell the slaves.