Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Submarine SMASH Day Reflection (Highlight To See It!!!)

1. Summarize --
-- What did we do for SMASH Day? We played various science experiments or fun cooperative activities that requires certain materials to built and test.
-- What was your mission? We had to use a periscope to see what is inside the box
-- What supplies were you given? 10 sheets of paper, cardboard, tape, 4 pieces of mirror

2. Reflect -- Scientists often make a hypothesis, test it, and then change (or modify) their design to make it work.
-- How many times did you have to modify your design?
2 Times before we get to modify
-- How did you know that you should modify your design? Because it was taking way too long to fix our old one
-- How did you know what to do when you modified it? We had a back up plan before we started making the first plan
-- How did your team communicate to decide how to modify your design? We tested the angles of the mirror and agreed on changing it to the simplest design, the fishing rod.

3. Tips and Suggestions
-- If you could give a list of tips and suggestions to someone who is doing this for the first time, what would it be? What would you tell them to help them out? I can tell them that, old fashion periscope won't work in this activity. You are REQUIRED to be creative, thats really how you can do it. You also need to think of many plans before actually start making the product.

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