Should you listen to music while working? WAC

Should you listen to music while working? WAC 

        Do you enjoy listening to music while you are working or at school? Some people like listening to music and it helps them but other people think that it is too distracting. Music can be beneficial and it can be a good study tool because for me it helps to drown out other people talking and allows me to get in the zone of working. For me music helps to motivate me to work and it gives me something to listen to and allows me to work for longer. Another thing is that it can help to calm me down and it allows me to focus on the work that I am doing. Music can help people to work and and motivate themselves and their work that they have to do.

        Music is something that can help you mostly when you are working in school to drown out all of the other students. When you are doing independent work music can help to drown other music out from other students or things around you in the class. Daniel Shader said "Music Definitely has and effect on the way you think and act... But I think it does help me concentrate because then I can drown out the other [students]". I agree with him and I do think that it does affect you but it does also help to allow you to concentrate and drown out all of the other noises and all of the talking from other students.

        When I am working it helps me to listen to music because it allows me to calm down and focus on what I am doing and not the people around me. It allows me to go and zone out into my own little world and it allows me to focus on my own work. Ms. Chester says "Plus classical stuff helps [the class] calm down and focus". For her and her class music is found to be beneficial in classes and Ms. Chester also says that it can help to convey emotion for classes like history when you have to study a certain era. Music can help people to calm down and focus which is good for when you are working and when you are at school

        There is always another side to every argument and people can say that finding the perfect song can distract you and cause you to get distracted. If the person creates a play list or finds a radio station that they like they should be able to listen to their music fine without getting distracted. CNN said "you have every available genre of music available to you in the form of online radio stations". I think that CNN is right and there is something that should be good for everyone. Most of the time music can be good as long as you have a good station set up that you know you like.

        Music is beneficial to me while I am working and it also seems to help other classes like Ms. Chesters. Music is something that can help people to focus and it can help to be something that motivates them to work for longer and to work harder. It can also help to pass the time and it can help people to also drown out all of the other background conversations and all of the other people that are in your class or work space. Music may seem distracting but as long as you find a radio station or a playlist that you like you should still be benefited  by listening to music. Music can be helpful while you are working to keep you focused and motivated.

Roller Coaster Project blog

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Summary:
         In this project we made a model roller coaster that would use a marble to run and we would use insulation tubing, dowels, cardboard, cups, tape, hot glue and a base board. In order to make a real or model roller coaster you have to understand things like acceleration, gravity, friction, newtons laws of motion, etc. When you want to have a loop, turn or hill on a roller coaster that you have enough acceleration to get it through the loop, turn or hill or it will not work. When we were making our model we had to consider gravity. Gravity naturally wants to pull the marble down to the table or ground so we had to make sure that we had enough acceleration and everything perfect to make the ride work. We had to make sure that there was extremely precise in order for everything to work like we wanted it to. Making a working model of a roller coaster can be hard but in the end it is very fun and exciting to watch.

Backward-looking: What process did you go through to produce this piece?:
          To make this roller coaster we had to do many things and it took a long time. The first things that we had to do was fill out 6 different worksheets about different things like acceleration, motion, and more to understand more about the science behind our roller coaster. Then we had to plan everything out and see how much money we had to spend on supplies and we earned all of the money from the worksheets. Then we would have to buy all of our supplies to make out roller coaster and then we had to actually put it together. We would test it to make sure it works and then we would improve it and make sure it works completely. Then at the end we would have to do the design brief and then do the final interview to end it.

Inward-looking: How do you feel about this piece of work? What parts of it do you particularly like? Dislike? Why? What did/do you enjoy about this piece of work?
         I love this piece of work because of how interactive it was but I think that the worksheets to it was less fun but interesting to learn about. I like that we were able to make our own roller coaster and customize it to our liking as well as it being interactive. I did not like how long it took to actually start building because of all of the work sheets that we had to do. I think that in the end it was worth it and it was fun to be able to roll the marble down and to be able to watch it so many times and know that we made it. I enjoyed presenting it to lots of people at the exhibition night and see what they think and most of the time people thought it was very cool.

Outward-looking: What is the one thing that you particularly want to notice when they look at your work?
         The main thing that I would want people to notice is how much work we put into our roller coaster. I want people to see our roller coaster and want to ride it themselves one day. I want to show people how much fun we had when we were making this project and how much fun we had when we were testing it and making it work. Every time when we would test it and it would work (especially when other people were watching) we would get excited. When we would get excited we could tell that the people watching would get happy for us too. I think that we showed what we wanted to and I think that we did super good on this project.

Forward-looking: One thing that I would like to improve upon is...
         Something that I would like to improve upon is how many decorations that we put on because we did not put any decorations. I think that if we managed out time a little better that we would have been able to add decorations to make out ride a little more visually appealing. Another thing is that when we showed it at exhibition night that we lost out paper with our information so we had to redo the paper and I think that that made out time harder to deal with so I wish that we were a little more responsible with the paper. I think that over all this project was super fun and something that I would love to do again if I could.

weekly blog

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Summary:
        When you are making a roller coaster you have to make it so that if you have any loops or hills or turns that you have enough acceleration to keep you going. You have to remember that gravity will push you down so you have to have enough acceleration and force to overcome that inertia. You also have to make sure that you have enough supports to keep your roller coaster up and make sure that it does not lean and the supports don't break. Whenever you are making a real roller coaster you have to make a model to see if everything works and if you have a good enough amount of acceleration to keep the riders going. Another thing is to make it fun and interesting for your riders and make sure that you have twist, turns, loops, hills, a big drop, etc. There are lots of things that go into making a roller coasters and you have to understand gravity, acceleration, newtons laws of motion and more.

S&EP: SP2: Developing and using models:
        This week we had to make a roller coaster model using insulation tubing, dowels,hot glue, masking tape, and cardboard. We also have to make sure that we have a loop and or a hill to make it interesting and we used a marble in place of the riders. We had to make it so that the marble could go on our full roller coaster without falling off and if it did fall of then we would have to fix it. We before studied gravity, acceleration, force, newtons laws or motion,etc, to prepare for making the roller coaster and through assignment we would find out how much money we have for materials. This was something that took a little bit of time but in the end it was fun and exciting to see the marble make it all the way through our roller coaster without falling off. This was fun to do to learn more about gravity, acceleration and more and it was fun too.

Newton's laws of motion- weekly blog

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Summary:
        Newton's first law of motion is something that is already in motion tends to stay in motion and something that is not moving stays still. An example of this is when you have your bike you have to gradually use force to make you go  and you have to overcome the inertia. The second law is that the more weight that you have to more force you have to use to move and the more force you use the faster you go. One example of this is if you have tons of weight on your bike it will be harder to go faster and the faster that you pedal the faster you move. The 3rd law of  motion is for every action there is always going to be a reaction that is equal and opposite to the action. A example of the 3rd law is when you drop or throw a bouncy ball it will bounce back as the reaction to you dropping the ball.

S&EP: SP4: Analyzing and interpreting data:
        There was a forces lab that could also be applied to newtons laws of motion that we did in class. For one of them we had to have a note card with a penny on it while the card was on a cup. You would flick the card and what happened is the card would fly off the cup and the penny would stay in the penny would go into the cup because it was not in motion so it wanted to stay still. Another one was where would would sit on a rolling chair, then you would jump and see how far you went with depending on the amount of force you use. The second law applies because the more force you use the farther it goes and the less force that you use the less it goes.