This was probably the best group I had in a while. They were for some reason fine with me being the leader. I hope they didn't mind the moments where I was angry. We worked well with each other, everyone had something to do and no one just sat in the corner not contributing. Our group helped each other when possible and were willing to always help. I still believe that I shouldn't have "controlled" my group but they didn't have any complaints or they didn't tell me any. I wouldn't choose anyone else as partners, their friendships with other people were the reason we actually completed it. We did have plenty of other people offer help. Most of the time I couldn't think of anything they could have helped with.
People adapt to lifestyles quickly, if something has always been something their entire life. They will think towards it and rarely rebel. If the majority refuses something it will eventually die out. If people believe that books should be burned, they will pass it on to their children and they could as well. The continuation of this will eliminate those who believe they shouldn't be burned. It was difficult to come up with questions to ask for the interview, but Humanities and Fahrenheit helped us understand how people of different age groups think. Making it easier to come up with different questions for our 1st grader, Community Member, and Senior Citizen. We used humanities to type artist statements about the best of our interviewees.
Physics was a huge part of this project, we had to learn how to build free standing circuits that lit up at least 4 LED's and run one motor. We had to learn about ohm's law which helped us a lot and about how electrons have to go from the positive side to the negative side of and LED. Not knowing this would have resulted in many circuits not working what so ever. We used Physics in finding the quantity of LED's a 9 volt battery could support with the LED's still being bright enough and have the motor still run. We also used math and physics to figure out how much resistance we need on the circuit so it can still run and not fry. It didn't completely stop circuits from frying but it sure decreased the casualties.
Learning the Spanish that we learned reduced the time it took to get it correct by a long shot. We had to use google translate as we are no where near close to knowing all of Spanish. Knowing common words, how to say things in the different tenses, and learning how to say 'was' and 'are' sped up the process of correcting the translation by a good amount of days. Without learning Spanish, we would be stuck and would have had to rely on the teachers to correct our errors. The Spanish speakers would say differently about themselves, of course.
Our final products was way better than we expected. The lights were bright enough to where you could see the lantern and the motors, at least most of them, worked as intended and weren't loud. I would give myself a 95% or an A. I did a great job in being a partner as I continuously worked on circuits and didn't give up. I could've done more for my group, I wanted to. My group did feel bad, as I appeared to be doing a lot more. But I claimed that I did less than either of them. In the end we agreed that we did the same amount of work. Work Ethic and Collaboration were great. We kept working even when things felt dull or hopeless and when we had nothing to do, a quick question to a partner would give you something to do. Oral communication could have been better as we sometimes would have trouble saying what we needed help with resulting us losing the potential of getting a better product. We had little to no written communication. We drew somethings, but we never really ended up using them. We luckily did remember our interviews pretty well. My partners were really great with building and I was great at designing and creating a circuit. We were responsible in doing what our partners wanted, sometimes we would get asked if we done something, if we said no we were luckily that the other person didn't get angry. By the way Joseph and Devon, sorry if I ever seemed rude or angry to/at you. I really didn't mean it, I guess the stress got to me. Sorry. We kept working, we kept trying to get as much help as possible. We also tried to help as many people as we could. We didn't go around destroying other people's lanterns. We actually learned quite a lot from others and offered to help them.
People adapt to lifestyles quickly, if something has always been something their entire life. They will think towards it and rarely rebel. If the majority refuses something it will eventually die out. If people believe that books should be burned, they will pass it on to their children and they could as well. The continuation of this will eliminate those who believe they shouldn't be burned. It was difficult to come up with questions to ask for the interview, but Humanities and Fahrenheit helped us understand how people of different age groups think. Making it easier to come up with different questions for our 1st grader, Community Member, and Senior Citizen. We used humanities to type artist statements about the best of our interviewees.
Physics was a huge part of this project, we had to learn how to build free standing circuits that lit up at least 4 LED's and run one motor. We had to learn about ohm's law which helped us a lot and about how electrons have to go from the positive side to the negative side of and LED. Not knowing this would have resulted in many circuits not working what so ever. We used Physics in finding the quantity of LED's a 9 volt battery could support with the LED's still being bright enough and have the motor still run. We also used math and physics to figure out how much resistance we need on the circuit so it can still run and not fry. It didn't completely stop circuits from frying but it sure decreased the casualties.
Learning the Spanish that we learned reduced the time it took to get it correct by a long shot. We had to use google translate as we are no where near close to knowing all of Spanish. Knowing common words, how to say things in the different tenses, and learning how to say 'was' and 'are' sped up the process of correcting the translation by a good amount of days. Without learning Spanish, we would be stuck and would have had to rely on the teachers to correct our errors. The Spanish speakers would say differently about themselves, of course.
Our final products was way better than we expected. The lights were bright enough to where you could see the lantern and the motors, at least most of them, worked as intended and weren't loud. I would give myself a 95% or an A. I did a great job in being a partner as I continuously worked on circuits and didn't give up. I could've done more for my group, I wanted to. My group did feel bad, as I appeared to be doing a lot more. But I claimed that I did less than either of them. In the end we agreed that we did the same amount of work. Work Ethic and Collaboration were great. We kept working even when things felt dull or hopeless and when we had nothing to do, a quick question to a partner would give you something to do. Oral communication could have been better as we sometimes would have trouble saying what we needed help with resulting us losing the potential of getting a better product. We had little to no written communication. We drew somethings, but we never really ended up using them. We luckily did remember our interviews pretty well. My partners were really great with building and I was great at designing and creating a circuit. We were responsible in doing what our partners wanted, sometimes we would get asked if we done something, if we said no we were luckily that the other person didn't get angry. By the way Joseph and Devon, sorry if I ever seemed rude or angry to/at you. I really didn't mean it, I guess the stress got to me. Sorry. We kept working, we kept trying to get as much help as possible. We also tried to help as many people as we could. We didn't go around destroying other people's lanterns. We actually learned quite a lot from others and offered to help them.