I learned a lot from our What If? project. This is what I learned. I learned that you had to take many different steps. The first step you had to take was thinking of question you could ask yourself. One of the questions might be, how can I make this exciting and safe at the same time? Or, how could I use water that is fun to play in and is also refreshing? The next step was to sketch out our ideas, and they could be as crazy as we wanted the to. Next was to take all the possible ideas and make a 2-D model. Last we got to make a 3-D model, with all different kinds of material. If you did these out of order it wouldn’t turn out as well has you hoped it would turn out. I also learned that if you really want a frase to get stuck in someone’s head you have to use punch it. The punch it is like cool disrupted words or cool words that would get truck in someones head. Like, kitty litter for horses, or any other punch it words you can think of. Another important thing I learned in this project is, it isn’t all about you. If you make a prak that only you would enjoy it really isn’t any fun for all the other kids that would like to go there. When you build something you have to think what other people would like and enjoy. Like say you have a younger brother or sister that really likes to play on monkey bars, but instead of building monkey bars for your younger brother or sister you build a tire swing for you cause you like tire swings. Your younger brother or sister would have no fun playing on it and only you would play on it and it would get very lonely for you, cause no one will play with you. Instead of building a tire swing for you, you build monkey bars for your younger brother or sister. Know both you and your brother and sister will be happy. Your younger brother or sister will be happy, because they knew you were thinking about them when you were building it for them. You will be happy, because you know that your younger brother and sister are very glad that you made it for them and you cared so much to make it for them, and are very thankful for you too. It always feels good making, or helping someone other then yourself, and it makes them happy, because they know that you care about them and love them. There are still many more things that I learned and there are still many more things I still need to learn. I hope someday you might get a chance to design something for someone or something. It is very fun I really enjoyed doing it and you learn a lot of different thing. I had a blast in our What If? project.
Archive | March 2013
Egyptian Museum
In our Egypt group we mad a “garden”. It really doesn’t look like a graden sadly, but we did our best. We also made a a mummy. What we did is, we took a babydoll wrapped it in tissue paper. Then we put the babydoll in a shoebox and painted it. Our group worked very hard at making a tree. What we did is, we used cardboard to make the leaves and trunk of a tree, then we painted it green and brown. We let it dry, then we put of clementines on it. We made a lot of posters. One of them had hieroglyphics on it. Another had a social structure on it, and the last one talked about a pharaoh and have they ruled. All these things were made so we could present a museum.
One of my favorite parts of the museum was making the mummy. What I liked about it is when we wrapped the babydoll up in tissue paper, then trying to put it in it’s “coffin” or box. Another one is our garden. In our garden we have sunflower seeds, cucumber seeds, cron seeds, carets, and potatoes.
Science
A couple days ago we took crayons to school and used some tools like, potato peelers, pencil sharpeners, scissors, and cheese cutters. We took the crayon shavings and put them in a bag. Once we got a lot of crayon shavings we put it in some tin fiol. Each table group got a tin fiol with crayon shavings in it. Then we had to look around the school to find a good heavy place to put the crayon shavings in. We left the crayon shavings in the tin foil under a heavy place for hunders and thousands of minites. Our group put our crayon shavings under a printer. Three and a half weeks later we took the tin foil out and unwrapped it to see if we had any crayon shaving rocks. My group only had little pieces of “rocks”. Know we are almost doing the same thing but we are adding heat to the crayon shaving.
The What If Project
Our school has been working on a project called “What If?” The teachers of 6th grade split all the 63 kids in three different design groups. Our group went to Haworth and Disher Design. The city has asked us to design a park to take the place of a 11 space parking lot for our community. We have been brainstorming how we could make the park be accessible for the special needs kids and adults, to make water beautiful, entertainment, and refreshment, we also had many more thing to brainstorm as well. We sketched the ideas we had brainstormed then voted on the ones we thought were the best. It feels really good brainstorming off of other peoples ideas, because they came up with a good idea then you are basically adding on to their idea to make it better, and safer. A great idea Mikaela had was to have a bike trail in the park we are designing.