Sunday, September 6, 2015

Weekly blog 08/31-09/06

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Summary:
For this project every we had to come up with and question and our question was "what paper towel brand holds the most pennies when it is wet?" Then we had to think of our hypothesis and materials that we will need to perform the experiment that we were  doing and what we needed was a lot of pennies, paper towels, a spray bottle, a small tub tape. After we had to do the experiment and what happened is kirkland won with 417 pennies and the unknown lost with only 242 pennies.

Backward-looking:
We encountered that we did not know what brand one of them were. We also encountered that we accidentally mixed the two amount of pennies together. We also almost all had the same brand. We solved the problem of the brand by calling it the unknown brand or sometimes Joseph's brand because he was the one that brought them. We solved the pennies mixing by redoing the experiment. 

Inward-looking: 
I liked when we got to do the experiment and it was just fun I was also challenging and then we got to count the pennies. I did not like that it took so long and that we smelled like pennies and that we had to redo the project a second time because we messed up. I did not like that we did not know what the brand was and that we had to try it with dry but when it did not work we had to do it with slightly wet. 

Outward- looking:
 Our project was kind of like others but kind of not. Ours was the same because we all had to do the scientific method and some people did things with paper towels too. Ours was different because some people did not do any thing with paper towels or weight. It was different because I did not know anyone in the class with pennies. It was different when we had to redo ours because most people did not have to redo theirs. 

Forward-looking: 
I would change how many squirts we put on the paper towel. I would put three or four squirts to make it quicker.I would change that we had to redo it by making sure that we did not do the next paper towel while we are counting the first one. I would also make sure that we all knew the brand of the paper towels by when they get their paper towel they ask their parents or they look at a package. I would change that we had to smell like pennies by cleaning all the pennies and making sure that they do not smell.




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