Mid-term exam
Paper Airplane
This project was a test to show if we could follow directions. We had to follow a list of steps in order to create a well flying airplane. The steps were very precise and only little error could occur to allow the airplane to fly good. This way, we could make sure we were focusing on the steps to make sure we did perfect on the project. There was a measure of the distance the airplane travelled and a measure of how long the airplane was aloft.
Engineering was applied by having to have precise calculations. We had to plan out the plane before even creating it. We had to use rulers and calculators in order to measure the lengths of each side on the plane and then get the area of the plane. This honed our skills
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As long as the plane flew, we had done our job. It was to see if we had the ability of making the certain observations and measurements in order to create a well effective airplane.
I liked that we each had partners. We could work with them in case we needed any help. I also liked how the steps were set up. They would carefully direct us to success. The last thing I liked was how each of the students subconsciously made the project into a contest and we all started to do our best. This gave us motivation to have the best paper airplane in the class.
One thing I would change about the Paper Airplane project would be the amount of supervision we had to conduct the project. I understand that we all need supervision but we must have space and we must be able to do the project by ourselves. I also would change that instead of doing the average of the best three measurements, we should have averaged all five measurements to get a more in depth result. One last thing I would change about the project would be the Airplane design we had to use. There are much more designs out there that could be much more effective to this type of
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In this case, the device was a bridge. The bridge must be created to hold large amounts of weight until it broke and could not hold anymore. There were certain requirements for the bridge to be. The most distinct requirements to me included that the bridge must be longer than 46 in, each piece must be shorter than 15 in and the only materials usable were glue and wood.
This used engineering because we had to design a scale drawing of each piece and measurement in the design. There was only little room for human error for it could have been fatal for the design. This was a much harder project than the rest and it took a substantial amount of skill to develop a good plan for the bridge. This made the students think and perform precise (as always) measurements. Lots of math was involved in the building in the bridge.
The purpose of the project was to make us better at following designs and measurements. There was a lot of work done into each project but if it held no weight, there was something wrong with the design and that was not good. This is why we must have a specific design to go
Missing the following information. “Include a specific manner of project evaluation. How will you determine your level of success? What will you measure? Whose evaluative input will you seek”?
This project was quite expeditious due to the number of alternate subjects studied within the constraints of school. This made it quite difficult to complete because time limits were evident and tested. This could have had a substantial impact on the project itself, however, it did not because of skill and precision. Working individually could be beneficial in certain circumstances if one is smart, advantages might include independence and personal idea. Although, it was not easy coming up with good ideas and multi-tasking in different areas individually. In addition, working in a class group was helpful due to the amount of
We needed to fully utilise our knowledge by applying all the basic concepts in physics such as dynamic equilibrium and knowing the stiffness of the materials to build strong miniature bridge using given items to withstand the weight applied.
If I could redo my project, what I would do differently is get more evidence of the projects. With it being such a sensitive topic I couldn’t really take pictures of what the kids said. I also had a bad quality camera which made it difficult to take good pictures so I wish I would have found a better camera.
The purpose of flying paper airplanes was to see which plane would be the fastest and slowest out of 20 planes. The main purpose was to see which plane had the lowest velocity.
In the beginning, I was frustrated and puzzled about what I was going to do as my project because no good ideas came to mind. On the day we wrote down what we planned on
Yarden: While creating our bridge our initial plans were much different than what our final product was. The more we worried about the strength of the bridge, the less time we had. We started off with the idea to have a truss bridge made of wood and cardboard. As shown here, (show picture from journal entry), but as the project progressed our ideas continued to change.
The project had regular meetings with the team members. These meetings were used to evaluate the progress of the project. At these meetings we evaluated the project. We also discussed how to proceed in order to plan our upcoming activities.
I have always been interested in engineering ever since I was a little kid in science club. How people build such great feats of science such as rockets cars buildings or even a simple bridge has always been a major question to me. Searching for answers, I joined honors physics in my junior year in high school. We started learning about forces and motion and eventually the largest grade we would receive throughout the entire year, the model bridge.
Three things I liked about this project was the suspense you’ld get when your egg is being dropped and getting to see others’ egg designs get dropped. I also enjoyed the building of the project. It involved a lot of thought process, redesigning, and creativity to get our design to work so well. The best part about this project though was getting to go to Martin and compare the design we created with other
If I was given the option do a project again I would redo the scratchboard self portrait assignment. This is because although I felt that I had done really well, there is so much more that I could have added to improve it further, specifically to make it lighter and to pay more attention to finer details. Learning from the mistakes I made I know for a fact that if I had redone the assignment, I could have done much better.
The Crane project was supposed to be a design that was easily put on the moon. You measured it in several categories that were judge by our fellow peers. This allowed people to get a ranking based on the appearance of their model, the sturdiness of their model, the amount of weight it held, and the models overall efficiency. Our class measured the cranes on a scale of one to five. Obviously the engineering process was to be applied via the construction of the crane and to which did theirs with the least resources and most weight held. The design process was best used in figuring out what build held the best ratio of material to weight held.
We were surprised to see how well the grade 3 students paid attention to our story and cooperated with us as we went through the questions. As for the grade 6 class, they cooperated with as as best they could, with the exception of the lack of interest in the story, which was mentioned previously. As far as our method of research goes, it worked out perfectly. If we had done any other method it might not have worked out as well. For example, a survey would not have been as accurate as we were aiming for. By doing an experimental project we were able to get the fairly honest answers from the students. This is mainly because they did not know what we were experimenting and thus could not alter their answer to meet our demands.
For our ideation sketches we had Evan record in his notebook which designs we were considering. He eventually created a format in which he drew a sketch of the bridge and listed the pros and cons along with it.
This helped me become a better thinker because with knowing and getting everything exact it taught me how a little thing can make the product go wrong and ruin the whole project. Some challenges I faced while doing this project is that there was time management involved in this project and it wasn't just a little a was a big chunk of it. Self management was a big part of this because i had school as well as i needed a supervisor to help with the machines that were too much for me to handle. The solution I had for this project was that I had to get out one day of the week from my after-school program to try and work on my project. From my overall project this will help in the future because it gave me an introduction to engineering. This introduction to engineering will help me during life because my career path that I want to take is engineering and the project gave me an introduction which shows me if i actually want to be an engineer which in my opinion was fun to do this