ELA Component

Journal Entry #1 11/1/2013

My project is about a laser and a water bottle. The water bottle has to be filled all the way because if its only half way the water will come out.

The way my project works is that i get a big water bottle and poke holes at the bottom of the bottle.

The water will not come out because there is not oxygen coming in.

The whole point of my project is too show that with the laser the water will turn the color of the laser.

Journal Entry #2 11/2/2013

The Reason i picked this project.

the reason i picked this project is because i wanted something easy but awesome at the same time.

And with my project i found that. All i have to do is get a water bottle, poke a two holes in the bottle, and get a laser. I also do not have to go through a lot a trouble to do my project. I could still focus on school work and finish my project. I also picked this project because its fast and easy. Plus its safe too.

Journal Entry #3 11/3/2013

Steps for making my project.

The first step to my project is getting a water bottle, scissors, and a laser.

Second I will make two holes at the bottom of the bottle, then i will fill it up with water.

The next step is to put it on flat surface and too turn off the lights because then we will not see the light of the laser. Fourth I try out my project different ways too see if the water will go different ways.

But no, no matter what if the laser is pointing the water will follow the laser.

Journal Entry #4 11/4/2013

Getting background Research.

The background Research was kind of hard at first because i would always forget what my project was called.

But I would ask my Physics teacher and he would tell me. But still to this day i forget.

but after i knew what my project was called my background research was easy. I wanted to know when the first laser was invented and i found out about that. I research everything that I used in my project. It was silly things like when was plastic ever on earth or when did the scissors come out.

Journal Entry #5 11/5/2013

Details and Outcomes of each try of my experiment.

The first time I tried out my project i did everything wrong. I did my experiment without reading the steps to it. I poked holes at the top of the bottle not the bottom and the water came out as soon as i was putting the water in. I did not use scissors. I used a pen so the holes were really little and I needed them bigger. Plus the laser but small. It was a total disaster. So finally the second time I actually read the instructions and everything came out good.

Journal Entry #6 11/6/2013

Daily successes or frustrations.

My daily frustrations with this project was mostly the things we had too do with the computer. Those were my frustrations because i knew it counted as a grade. Plus I would try too get it done but everything was blocked. That's like the only thing that was bad about this project. They gave us the chrome books but it was hard to do our homework on it. I would get really frustrated. A successes is that i had fun with my project actually doing it.

Journal Entry #7 11/7/2013

I was looking at what we had to write about and i saw that we had to talk about our diagrams.

My project does not have a diagram. Its just a bottle with two holes water and a laser.

How can I make a diagram with that? so what i thought of this getting different kinds of bottles and see if there was any difference. I used a little bottle, a normal size, and then a really big one and it did not make a difference. So my project does not need to contain a diagram.

Journal Entry #8 11/8/2013

Second guessing my project.

I also was second guessing my project at first. I said to myself it's way to easy. You have to challenge yourself and I tried but then I was getting behind on school work. At first I wanted to do the bed of nails but the thing I did not like is that I had to be with a partner. I mean I like group work but not when it comes to things like this big projects. I do not like it because then someone does not want too work. Or the partner says ill do everything do not worry about it. That's not right. It has to be two people working on it. Not just one and I did not want to deal with something like that so I just went back to my project.

Journal Entry #9 11/9/2013

How this project might assist with the future career goals. My project might assist with my future career goal because I was thinking of becoming a teacher when I grow up. I would like to become a 1st grade teacher and show them things that will interest the kids. For example, I could show them how my project works and hopefully they will be excited for school. Show them different things. Plus my project is not dangerous it is just water and a bottle but i do have to be careful with the scissors.

Journal Entry #10 11/10/2013

Lastly I think PBL should only be with Science class. Whats the point of giving it to English class or Social Studies class. I mean it's been going good but it just adds more stress to the students and the teachers. They do not need that extra work on their hands. PBL is like science fair. That was only for the science teachers and now they have involved everyone in it and it's just too much. But I had fun with it. Let's see how next year goes.