Weekly blog (Feb. 23 to 27)

Monday: Today we got to officially test our catapult, then we recorded the data. First, we did our daily science starter then we got straight into our lab. Since today was the testing day of it all, we went with our groups in t the cafeteria. The stations were power, accuracy, and knocking over a tower of cups. Today was really fun.


Tuesday: Since today was a snowy day we had no classes. Even though there were no classes, I spent 20 minutes of my day reviewing some of my notes. 


Wednesday: Today was a short day of school, and the classes were only half an hour long. So it started out doing our daily science starter,which was about section 1 unit two review. It was about objects free falling, Circular motion, and projectiles and trajectories. After that we took some more notes on unit two section 1. I learned that what an object is free falling it does not encounter any air resistance, so the only force acting on it is gravity. After taking 10 minutes on the notes, we worked on our two lab sheets. One is with our group, and the other is your individual lab worksheet. My Group finished the lab sheet that recorded all the Data. For homework tonight and tomorrow I have to finish the individual lab worksheet. That was all we did today since we had a short class.

Thursday: Today we did not have science class, but instead the Science Olympiad groups went to Panera bread and studied the events. Since I am only doing building events I didn't really study them but practice them. My events are write it do it, air trajectory, and duct tape challenge. I do not practice air trajectory because we cannot shoot the balls in the restaurant. I did one write it do it challenge and one duct tape challenge.

Friday:Today was a great day, we did our daily science starter then we did a review foe the unit 2 quiz that we have next Tuesday. It is about the 5 vocabulary words, 2 equations, and that is mostly it! The vocabulary words are weightlessness, projectile, free fall, gravity, and terminal velocity. The quiz is going to be only 24 questions so knowing that, I feel good about it. After that we got a new lab and we filled out data, the we started on a graph about it. That was all we did today.

Improvements:
I want to improve on making my graphs neater, and making my lab more organized. 

Weekly blog (Feb 16 to 20)

Monday: Today I felt really tired and I just wanted to go to sleep, since we just had a 4 day weekend. Today also seemed liked a slow day. We did our daily science starter which was about our unit to unit two. Then we did a can experiment, we put a certain amount of of water in the can so it would stand up by itself on the corner of the can. This unit is mostly about gravity, we wrote some new equations in our cheat sheet. The new equation is weight equals mass times gravitational acceleration. After doing that we took notes on our new unit, since we didn't have a lot of time left we only took notes on the first slide. After, Mrs.G let us spend 15 minutes to finish our vocabulary homework. That was all we did today.

Tuesday: Today I was not as tired as I was yesterday. We started off with our daily science starter. It was about the notes that we took yesterday. After that we took more notes and we talked about more of our unit. In some of the note taking I zoned out a little bit, but I still understand it. Then we talked about our next lab/project. It is about making a catapult that would shoot three different objects. But first to get our minds into thinking about air devices, Mrs. G showed us a video that was calling pumpkin chunkin. The two videos that we watched we're funny and educational. Since I am in Science Olympiad and one of my events is air trajectory, the project will be easy for me. We got our lab sheet but all we did was write our group members names. I am with Lauren and Kyler. We also drew a diagram and figure it out what materials we would bring tomorrow. I think that this project is going to be fun. That was all we did today. 

Wednesday: Today was a good day because we work on our catapult product more. First we did our daily science starter then we worked on our project. Our our science starter was about yesterday's notes and most of the vocabulary. After doing that we split into our groups and we work on our project. We had to bring class anything that would be helpful for our project. My group started building the catapult, we are using hot glue, popsicle sticks, rubber bands, cardboard, and spoons. We didn't exactly build the diagram that we drew on paper yesterday. Since we came to science class with new ideas, we put all our ideas together and we formed one good idea. We didn't finish it yet, but we started to hot glue the possible sticks together. Then we thought about where to put the rubber bands so we would have enough kinetic energy. Then we had to end class.

Thursday: Today was a fun day because we got to test our catapults and make some tweaks on it. After we get our daily science starter which was about unit two and gravity we got your groups and we quickly started on our lab. We put some more popsicle sticks on it and we got to launch stale marshmallows. After doing that for a couple times we tweaked it. We support the spoon and we added a couple more rubber bands, we also decided to make the spoon I did different angle because when we shot it the marshmallow hit the ceiling. Tomorrow we still have to add a couple more things on and then will be done. That was all we did today.

Friday: Today we did our daily science starter then we finished our device for the catapult lab. First we did our daily science starter, which was about free falling and that there is no air resistance when an object is free falling. After that we worked on our catapult, my group had to make finishing touches and actually replace a spoon. Since we tested it a lot , we actually broke the spoon! Today we were assigned two different test, shooting to go into the bowl,and knocking over a tower of plastic cups. That was all we did today.

Improvements:
I could improve on not zoning out and I could also improve on making notes. I zoned out a little bit when we were going over some notes so I should definently improve on that.

Weekly blog (Feb 2 to Feb 6)

Monday: Today was tiring day and a fun day at the same time. Today we got a new lab took some really short notes on the Newtons third law and worked on our lab. First we took notes on Newtons force and what affects it, like mass,and applied force. Our new lab is called Bowling for forces. It has to do with acceleration, force, velocity, distance, time, and mass. We got into groups after talking about it.I am in a group with Selden and Delaney. To be honest, they were mostly playing around but we still got it finished. After we finished the part were we fill out the mass and time, slow, and fast class was over so we had to finish it for homework. We did a basketball, volleyball, softball, soccer ball, golf ball, bowling ball, and we did an exercise ball for extra credit.  


Tuesday: Today we continued our lab, took more notes, and we did more questions on our lab. First we did our daily science starter then we took some notes. The science was pretty easy for me. I checked on Jupiter grades and we have a test next Tuesday so I already started studying. After doing that we took notes on some more of the physics chapter. After taking those notes we went over the and we compared answers from last nights homework on filling out the other things. My group had the same answers except one of them on the velocity part. Today was a good day.

Wednesday: Today we had a blast. We had a really cool demonstration, and we talked about physics a little more. After that we had Mr.Simon come in and we talked about the experiment. The demonstration was that a cinderblock would be placed on his chest then Mrs.G would break the cinderblock by smashing a hammer on the cinderblock. We said that Mr.Simon should flex and hold his breath. It was very amazing, Mr.Simon was fine and he did survive. I think that this was a really fun demonstration.

Thursday: Today we finished our lab and we turned it in, then we got our study guide and we worked on it. After having a really fun day yesterday we started to study in class. I only have 4 questions left on the lab because I did some of them during homework. I already finished them and turned it in. After that we got our study guide. I had already started studying but we got our study guide today. I finished the first column but there are 4 columns on it. Today was a chilling day.

Friday:Today we finished our study guide and that was all we did. Today seemed like a really short day today. I finished my study guide and I checked it. I only had a little bit to do because I worked on it last night. After doing that we had guided study for the rest of the day. 

Improvements: I could improve on remembering thinks like turning in my lab, I could also work harder and not get so distracted in class.