• What did you notice or observe during the game? That ocayle is good at guessing who it is.
• What kind of questions did you ask yourself (meta)? What ever I’m thinking think the opposite.
• When did you first begin drawing connections between different characters, clues, pieces of information?Well I recorded on google sheets.
• What were those connections?The ones that I relate to.
• What were your biggest clues? I didn’t really have any. It was a short game.
• What information seems most important to collect? The one that stands out
• *What is the difference between an observation and information? Fact and think

Did you use the websites provided to you for this activity? No, I used my google search skills and I found the right answers. I like looking stuff up and finding the right sites.

How do you think you can use your cornell notes in the future? I can carry them around when I go to Actual Factual places. I can also memorize some of them so I can use them later on in life.

What are 3 new things you learned from researching the colonies in this way? I learned that they are actually very interesting, I learned that there are 3 different parts of the 13 colonies, I learned that there is a lot of info about the 13 colonies.

Why did we do this activity? It helps you remember the things that are important.  It also helps you with learning about history in normal everyday life.

How did you research for this activity? I looked up the idea and I looked for reasonable noting. Then I documented.

What were the biggest challenges you encountered during this activity? I got very mad when I couldn’t find something or I couldn’t finish for some odd reason.

How did you overcome your challenges? I built up my anger and made it positive. Then I continued.

What materials did you choose for your build and why? Popsicle sticks, cardboard, tape, colored paper, hot glue

While you test:

What are you noticing? That at least I didn’t focus that much and I want to improve. I want to help my group in a good way instead of just using tape.

What things are working? Everything on the build is working well except I think that our ladders need to be longer

How will you tweak this? Make this better? (Be specific and detailed!) Try new materials (maybe wood), more Popsicle sticks

Do you need any new materials? If so, WHY? No just more Popsicle sticks.

Why will this new design work better than your first attempt? What is your evidence? More Popsicle sticks because then Rapunzel can get up easier

1. Here is the word problem my partner and I solved:
2. Here is a picture of my visual that represents the problem:
3. Here is my equation(s) with a variable to represent the unknown amount:
4. When predicting my answer, I know my answer will be smaller or larger because…
5. Here is a picture of the work I did to solve the problem:
6. My answer and label is…

1. Lucy spends 4 hours a week babysitting. Her sister Lily spends ⅞ as much time babysitting. Does Lily babysit for more or less than 4 hours? How do you know? What is the exact amount of time Lily babysits? (Addie and Simon) 

3 and a half hours

7/8ths is less than 1 and 4×1 is 4 and that is how many hours lucy has.

4 x 7/8 = x     x=3 and a half

I knew my answer was going to be smaller than 4 because

MINDSET

I picked mindset because I thought that a positive mindset really helped me and my style of learning and not giving up. I think it would help because it reminds me to step up, try again, and be a good leader.

What about the building process was challenging? It wasn’t really challenging.

How did your build differ from your plan? (If your build was different than your plan, update your plan!) I think that if we did a slime pit it would be easier but more fun.

How did your group work well together during the build? What would you do again? Work well together again.

How did your group struggle during the build? What would you change? We didn’t really struggle.

I feel really good that as a class we helped people in need or people that don’t have enough money. Some of them told jokes, talked for a bit, told there story. The people who run the Gathering said that we served 165 people in 1 hour. After when breakfast was over we cleaned/washed tables and chairs, washed the floor, stacked chairs, took chairs off the stacks, ate a snack, then thought about how much more we helped the world. After we cleaned we talked about what we did and what kind of people came in, there story’s, how many people we served. I feel really proud and am happy that I did it.

Tikkun Olam, Empathy, Wonder…

This week, we worked on coding Hanukah Cards. Below you will see my creation and what I thought was comfortable and challenging when doing this assignment.

Here is my card:

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/268840970/

What I thought was comfortable about this activity:     There was a lot to do with my friends.

What I thought was challenging about this activity:  It was really annoying at the beginning.

Title: Rubber band Boat

Categorize: Science

This week in science to study potential and kinetic energy we created a moving boat using 2 rubber bands, 5 Popsicle sticks, cardboard, 24 inches of tape, and 4 paper clips. To create the boat we went through the engineering design process, which is shown below.

My original boat:

My original design is…. To make it look like a sail boat. (that’s why there’s a sail.

I believe my original design will allow the boat to stay afloat and move through the water because… It has many things to keep it where it is. Popsicle sticks, rubber bands, etc.

When I put my boat in the water tub this is what happened: It fell over…

The changes I am going to make to improve my boat design are… Flat surface 

My re-built boat:

I believe my new design will allow the boat to stay afloat and move through the water better because… It has a rubber band.

When I put my newly designed boat in the water tub this is what happened…. It floated and did a good job.

Some more improvements I could make to my boat are…. Make it better by putting more effort into it.

This challenge was comfortable because… It was really fun

This challenge was difficult because… It was hard because it was powered by a rubber band.

This taught me about potential and kinetic energy because… It had the rubber band.

We are doing a challenge in ETC. The Repunzel challenge. You have to get Repunzel out of the tower safely and she cannot die. She has  to get out of the tower safely. Our idea is to make a flex tape ladder and put a lot of flex tape down.