Reflection Sheet
1. Justify how this project/lab/activity meets the standard, using evidence from the standard itself.
The standard for this project was 8b: I as a student know that to calculate the density of an object you need to divide mass over volume. Mass is how much it weighs and volume is the space it holds within the object. You can find volume by multiplying length times width times height. Or if is an irregular shape you can dip it into water and see how much ml the water rose.
2. Elaborate on at least one Science and Engineering Practice you feel you met/gained from completing this project.
One SEP I met/gained was analyzing and interpreting data. For this project, each student was suppose to bring in aluminum foil to create a boat that can float in water once applying metal washers into the inside of the boat. We had to figure out how can the density of different boats change, if all boats were going to float, if the boats were going to sink after a certain amount of metal washers and so on so forth. We worked in groups of three to compare each other's boats. We took measurements of the length, width, height, mass with washers, and mass with no washers. All of that information went down into Data chart. Then we analyzed the data. We had to find the density of each boat after we multiplied the three things needed for volume and drop down our observations. I interpreted from my data that the bigger the volume for the boat, the more mass it would hold before sinking.
3. Upon reflecting on your work/experience and/or score,, what is ONE SEP you could have done better on? How will improving in this SEP benefit future work/projects?
One SEP I could have done better was communicating with my peers Donte & Edwin because due to our lack of communication we would get different results in different things knowing it shouldn't be that way. We also needed to work in our evaluating skills. One boat was changed because it got lost and we didn't get communication of that until the results were already made so then we had to start all over. When we did our measurements were all different and we had gotten different densities. Due to that we had to spend more time on that particular boat solving for everything multiple times while we could have been doing more observations and trying new things with the boats. Obtaining information was hard for our group because we couldn't collaborate as well due to people staring off in space and not paying attention. All these three things make up one SEP and this will help me in improving my future projects because I know know that I have to be prepared for any type of obstacle from getting wrong results in something or of obtaining an error I could have avoided.
4. How will you presently apply the content and skills you learned from this assignment in the real-world, outside of the classroom? Make connections between the content and your life.
I can apply these skills that I learned once I become and automotive engineer. I say this because even though some thing my brain and ideas towards the cars I want to create once I am older are childish I actually see different ways of innovation that can benefit the world, nature, & humans. Even if my ideas don't get made when I am alive eventually some day someone smarter will carry on from where I left off. I would want to test out cars on water. That still have the features of a car but also carry the features of a fairy boat. Density will help me out in this case because I have to make sure that it displaces the right amount of water and that the Fairy Car won't sink and so on so forth. Little car experiments that have been running through my mind for years you know. after all science and math are a big part of engineering.
The standard for this project was 8b: I as a student know that to calculate the density of an object you need to divide mass over volume. Mass is how much it weighs and volume is the space it holds within the object. You can find volume by multiplying length times width times height. Or if is an irregular shape you can dip it into water and see how much ml the water rose.
2. Elaborate on at least one Science and Engineering Practice you feel you met/gained from completing this project.
One SEP I met/gained was analyzing and interpreting data. For this project, each student was suppose to bring in aluminum foil to create a boat that can float in water once applying metal washers into the inside of the boat. We had to figure out how can the density of different boats change, if all boats were going to float, if the boats were going to sink after a certain amount of metal washers and so on so forth. We worked in groups of three to compare each other's boats. We took measurements of the length, width, height, mass with washers, and mass with no washers. All of that information went down into Data chart. Then we analyzed the data. We had to find the density of each boat after we multiplied the three things needed for volume and drop down our observations. I interpreted from my data that the bigger the volume for the boat, the more mass it would hold before sinking.
3. Upon reflecting on your work/experience and/or score,, what is ONE SEP you could have done better on? How will improving in this SEP benefit future work/projects?
One SEP I could have done better was communicating with my peers Donte & Edwin because due to our lack of communication we would get different results in different things knowing it shouldn't be that way. We also needed to work in our evaluating skills. One boat was changed because it got lost and we didn't get communication of that until the results were already made so then we had to start all over. When we did our measurements were all different and we had gotten different densities. Due to that we had to spend more time on that particular boat solving for everything multiple times while we could have been doing more observations and trying new things with the boats. Obtaining information was hard for our group because we couldn't collaborate as well due to people staring off in space and not paying attention. All these three things make up one SEP and this will help me in improving my future projects because I know know that I have to be prepared for any type of obstacle from getting wrong results in something or of obtaining an error I could have avoided.
4. How will you presently apply the content and skills you learned from this assignment in the real-world, outside of the classroom? Make connections between the content and your life.
I can apply these skills that I learned once I become and automotive engineer. I say this because even though some thing my brain and ideas towards the cars I want to create once I am older are childish I actually see different ways of innovation that can benefit the world, nature, & humans. Even if my ideas don't get made when I am alive eventually some day someone smarter will carry on from where I left off. I would want to test out cars on water. That still have the features of a car but also carry the features of a fairy boat. Density will help me out in this case because I have to make sure that it displaces the right amount of water and that the Fairy Car won't sink and so on so forth. Little car experiments that have been running through my mind for years you know. after all science and math are a big part of engineering.