The Hardest Thing Ever

Hi everybody, for the past few weeks we have been working on our Science Fair Projects.  It was really hard but we had a great learning experience.  Some of the things I learnt is to make my project happen were; The type of variables we used (independent variables, dependant variables and controlled variables), the hypothesis, the results of our science project (the winner was the paper towel Handee Ultra) and using the scientific method.  There were also a lot of things that were really hard as well.  Some of these things were; that other members of our group were away, that our plan changed a lot so we didn’t really know what we were doing, that we were learning things at such an alarming rate that our brains were swarmed with information and that we had a deadline that put us under a lot of pressure.  Even though we had a few trip up’s we eventually got our Science Fair board up and ready to present. 

 If we could do this again I would change the member of my group because he distracted me a lot and when we were testing we could of used a bigger variety of paper towel brands.  In this project I had to use my hoe of Kaha (being strong) and Tu Maia (resilience) to help me not give up on what I was doing.  For this project I found everything a bit confusing and not very easy.

Have you ever done a Science Fair Project?

 

The Greatest Marble Challenge Ever

 Hi, for the past few weeks we have been doing something called the great marble challenge.  We had to build a structure that would make a marble go 1.1m.  I was in a group with George and Mark.  We were quite unsure about what to do so we decided to brainstorm for a long time.  Eventually we came up with what to do.  We decided to use my chromebook and then stack a tube on top of it.  Finally we decided to get some cardboard and attach it underneath the tube.  We were doing this to learn how to follow the scientific method and to help us prepare for science fair that is coming up soon.

When we had finished building we moved onto testing.  We rolled the marble down for the first time and it was very off our goal.  We modified it and added Mark’s chromebook underneath as well.  From there on we tested and modified.  Most of them were changing the angle up and down.  When we finally thought we had got it right we wrote down our instructions.  The next day was competition day and we were happy with what we had done until it got to our turn.  Someone else from another group had to read our instructions and then test our marble run.  When he read out our instructions we realized something was terribly wrong.  Only half of our instructions were on the paper.  We were dumbfounded because we only got nine points out of 50.  The hardest part about this project was coming up with the design and building it because we needed to measure how long we wanted our supplies.  The easiest bit was writing the instructions because we had already tested how to do it so many times.

Have you ever made your own marble run?