My goal for science is to use feedback from others to improve my work because sometimes I ignore my peers' feedback. I will achieve this by putting a sticky note on my work to remind myself.
For this project we answered questions on a google sheet to form a rainbow shrimp. I learned about how different types of rock are formed. This helped me understand the concept by answering questions that I knew and questions that I didn't know to expand my knowledge. One of the Habits of Heart and mind that I used was integrity because I didn't look at other peoples computers that were done when I was stuck on a question.
For this project we watched, read, explored, organized, and illustrated to show our knowledge about Plate Tectonics. In this project I learned what a rift is. This helped me understand what a divergent boundary does. One of the Habits of Heart and Mind I used was Effort because I was one of the first kids to do it so I had to figure it out on my own because Mr. Brothers was helping kids that were behind.
This project was also part of the First Americans exhibition. We studied the geology of our region (the Pacific Northwest) and how it impacted the First Americans in that area.
For this exhibition my group and I researched eclipses and equinoxes. We learned about how they affected us, the history, what they were, and much more. To display our research we made two models. One represented the eclipses and we showed what they look like using a flashlight. The other represented the equinoxes and it was a moon and an earth. We showed the equinoxes by moving the flashlight so that it looked somewhat like what a lunar and solar eclipse would look like in real life.
To complete this project I had to create a slideshow about composting with my partner and then present it to the whole grade. I don't think it went super well because I was reading off the screen the whole time and I was also not super confident when I was speaking. I was helpful to my partner, Ryder because we worked really well together and did a pretty even amount of work. We also had to compromise a little bit because at certain times we had different ideas and we had to figure out a way to either use both of our ideas, sometimes we just let the other person use their idea too.