Project Blog

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Summary

The topic of this project blog was my project, the Charity-Fair. In the charity fair, I learned what a carbon footprint is. A carbon footprint is how much CO2 you are releasing into the air by transporting your product and making it. I also learned more about the history of the mistletoe and what the purpose of the mistletoe (such as the tradition, and how its made). This is the summary of my project blog.

Backward-Looking

I knew that mistletoes were a big part of the christmas tradition. knew that when a mistletoe is something that you have to kiss under if you go under it. I wasn't absolutely sure how the mistletoe looked like though. I also knew that there are lots of animals that get abused each year. With this project I got to go more into that subject with my charity.

Inward-Looking

I feel that this particular piece of work was quite professional looking. We designed it to look like an actual mistletoe. I feel good about the project quality wise. I particularly enjoy the quality of the poster. I feel like I did a great job on the poster compared to the crappy job I usually do. My posters usually don't come out that good so i'm quite happy about that. In my opinion it looked pretty nice and neat. What I dont really about this project was the video we made for our charity. In my opinion it didn't strike my as the "amusing type". As well as it did to many others. There was slow calming music in the background music and just seamed like us running our mouths about how good this charity was, even though we spent lots of time and effort on trying to find information about this particular subject. Like I mentioned before I definitely enjoyed the poster we did, but I also definitely liked the amount of knowledge we knew about the charity. We definitely spent a lot of time on researching this A+ rating charity.

Outward-Looking

I would give my project the grade of an overall A. I believe that this is a fair grade, considering everything consisted in the project. The charity video + Script, Poster board, sales, and product. I think that the charity wasn't are best but had a lot of information in it. The script was extremely long and consisted a lot of information, so I think honestly that deserves a B- or so. The poster board definitely deserves and A. I think this because our poster board consisted of all the information required and far above and beyond. I included the history and a lot of other bonuses and stayed up quite a while printing all the stuff and making the titles, and Pierson also made most of the Mistletoes, but I also helped him on making it. The poster board also had a lot of valuable information from the project. Next is the sales. That definitely deserves and A on my part at least. When we we presenting and selling our product to people, not to be bragging or have an ego, but a lot of the parents said I was very convincing and presented lots of crucial fact persuading them very well to buy it. And we also got quite a bit of money, $60 is quite a lot for me definitely acceded my expectations. And finally for the product. I would give that an A also. Pierson did a great job on the product of the Mistletoe. He made it look professional and stunning. I also helped in the begging, but he did the rest because he had the supplies.

Forward-Looking: 

To be truly honest I think that I wouldn't really change much. The only thing that I would significantly change is the video. I would make the video a lot shorter and add more action. I would make the music quieter so the audience can here as well. These are the things that I would change into the project if I were to do it over.

Weekly Blog 12/14

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Summary
This week in science, I did my carbon footprint for the charity. I also did my research from our soil project. I learned about how far china is from the USA. I also learned where my products were made and how important it is. Another thing I learned is that going by ship releases less CO2 in the air than airplanes. I also learned how important soil is for the earth. Soil provides a lot of our food and important things we need to survive. I also learned what a carbon footprint is.

SP1: Asking questions and defining problems

I Formulated a testable question when I wrote about how I can reduce my carbon footprint. This helped me better define carbon footprint and how much less CO2 is released into the air if it goes by ship instead of plane. My question was how I could reduce my carbon footprint. I tested it by using one of my materials and changed how it being shipped. The difference was huge of how much CO2 was being released.

Weekly Blog

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This week in science, my group and I finished our safest place in america ad campaign. I learned about how many natural disasters occur in West Virginia. I also learned that there is a 1% chance of a tsunami happening in West Virginia. Thunderstorms and winter storms aren't very strong in west virginia and happen occasionally. I also learned about the fault lines located there and how there are rarely earthquakes there.

SP4: Analyzing and interpreting data

I used my ad campaign to display the the data from the natural disasters that occur in west virginia. I did this by looking at all the maps and seeing which have a lot of natural disasters and which ones have less. Me and peirson than narrowed it down to west virginia because it was very balanced.

Weekly Blog

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This week in science, we focused on our safest place in America projects. My team and I learned that the closest place to the safest place in America is in West Virginia. We are still not 100% sure on it though we still need to do a bit more analyzing but otherwise we started our advertisement. I learned about the tornado alley this week and the states it run through. I also learned that Texas and Florida both have a very high risk of many natural disasters.

SP1: Asking questions and defining problems
I formulate testable questions when I tested which state is the safest place in america. I did this by looking at all the maps for where hazards occur most, and summed it down to a state. We also analyzed the faults and threat zones by researching it. We asked several questions, a couple examples are, "Is there more than one safe place","Are we completely sure". We than tested our theory by going more in depth in our research.

Project Blog Post

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This week in science, we did our Land form Detective project. The land form we decided to choose 

was the Grand Prismatic Spring. I learned that the Grand Prismatic Spring is the largest one in all of Yellowstone National Park. I also learned  how the Grand prismatic spring gets its rainbow colors. The image shown above is how the spring looks like.

Backwards Looking

I had no prior knowledge to the Grand Prismatic Spring before we did this project. In fact, before this project I didn't know very much about Yellowstone National park itself. However, before this project in class, we have been learning about land forms. what we learned about was the different types there are, what they do to the earth, how they are formed etc. In what we have been learning, springs didn't really show up often. so with my group we decided to do the Grand Prismatic Spring.

Inwards Looking

In this project, I feel that we did pretty good job on explaining the Grand Prismatic Spring, and defining the details of it. I particularly like how we did our slide presentation and our presentation all in one. There may have been a couple of errors, but I liked how everyone maintained eye contact and good grammar. What I disliked most about the project was the model. The model looked very nice in the beginning, but overtime got damaged, and the clay had a lighter look to it, not what we expected. I enjoyed the work and effort put into the document and slide presentation and divided equally amongst ourselves. 

Outwards Looking

I would grade this project a B+ or an  A-. I decided to base this grade on the presentation, information accuracy, and model. I would give it this grade for the following reasons, my first reason is for the presentation, I feel like we did alright on it. I think this because everyone made good eye contact, had good grammar/punctuation most of the time, and everyone had a fair share of talking. However, there were some mistakes on the presentation. I felt like everyone did fair share on the research and gave accurate information.although at the end, I felt like we were missing something that has to do with how it was tectonically formed or something in that manner.

Forwards Looking

What I would change in this project if we were to start over again would have to be the model and giving further information on the tectonic plates. I feel this way because in my opinion, I think the model wasn't quite 100 there. I just overall think that it's not as good as I expected it to be. I also think we shoul provide further information on the tectonic process of the spring, to elaborate on that a bit more because I have noticed that other groups had more details in that particular subject.