Entry #1 October 17, 2016 :
During my Physics class, our teacher explained how we would soon be working on our PBL projects. The first thing he said was to think about the project we would like to create. So I started thinking about what projects I would like to be doing and came across a project called "Maxwell's Wheel". I wasn’t sure about it at first but it sounded like fun. I then asked my Physics teacher if I would be able to do it and he approved of it. The next day i went onto the PBL website to see what I was going to be doing. So later I made my PBL email and did the survey to submit my project to the central office of STEM.
Entry #2 October 19, 2016 :
Today, my Physics teacher told us that we have to be getting started in creating our PBL website. And since I had already chosen my project I could start it. I needed to create my Google site and begin to work on it. The first thing I needed to do was start on creating the pages that I will be working on. Like What is STEM SOS?, and the My PBL Project page, the Background Research page, ELA Component page, and finally the SS Connection page. I need to work on theses pages once I am done making my website. Making the website was easy now I just needed to input my information.
Entry #3 October 23, 2016 :
Today I am going to start working on the first five PBL tasks that are going to be due in a couple of days. I have made my PBL Project page and have added some information to it like some of the Procedures the Driving Question and a little bit about my experiment. They will be due in a few days and I think that I will be able to finish them by then. I have also started looking into the science behind my project and it is pretty interesting. Now I need to put what I learned into the investigation part of my website and ask the teacher if the the information I have is good enough.
Entry #4 October 28, 2016 :
Today some of the tracks are due and I'm almost done with them. I have to send my Google website to my Physics teacher and see if it is okay with him. I need to start researching what I need to know about my PBL project and get the most important parts from it and put it onto my website. Its going to take me some time to do My PBL Project page because I have to look at everything about the project and explain the most important parts on my website. I struggled little when I was trying good information and explanations for most of my project page most of the information i found was very vague, but got it done eventually. I think that I did and okay job with my information on my project.
Entry #5 November 2, 2016 :
This week has more stressful than last month's. I have to do the ELA and the SS components for the site and the dead like is in a week. I also have to start getting everything organized and ready to be submitted to central office of PBL. My classmates have been helping me with helping me correct some of the mistakes that I cannot see that I have on my PBL site. By researching I have learned more of the history of my project and that is good because it gives me more information to put onto my SS component. I did not think that it would be this much work but I am going to pull through and finish it.
Entry #6 November 6, 2016 :
Today I am fixing any errors that I might have on any of my pages by looking at some of the sample websites that the teacher has provided to us with the more new corrections and new things that we have to add onto ours. I will be staying after school in a couple of days to conduct my PBL experiment which is kind of exiting. I need to watch some videos to gain some knowledge on the project and see what I will be doing. The materials I needed were provided to me by my physics teacher because he already had them in his classroom. I don't want to get my hopes up and expect too much from the project since it isn't as elaborate as other but it still cool and has been around for so long.
Entry #7 November 8, 2016 :
Today I am fixing my website by changing the theme and seeing which one I like best and which fonts I like for the use of all on the site. I am also asking one of my friends to see if they can find any kind of grammatical error that I might have missed before. My physics teacher said that it looks good and am doing a great job with the website. I am also adding more information to where it looks like it needs more like on my SS component and on My PBL Project Page. I am taking suggestions from my friend to better my project because they said that my site could look better by adding them.
Entry #8 November 12, 2016 :
I hope this picks up my grade I am putting so much time and effort into this and if I get nothing out of this I am going to be disappointed. Its been very hard I have to do PBL and regular school work and sometimes it gets really stressful. My teacher has told me that my site look really good and that the tasks I have done and I should move onto the next one. The next task is to write the script for my video which is kind of a relief because it seems easier than the previous task. I should be able to finish it soon.
Entry #9 November 14, 2016 :
Today I am going to be working on my PBL project after school. It shouldn't take that long since I know what I am going to be doing now. Some of my friends are going to stay too and do their own projects. The teacher told us to take many picture and videos to be able to put into our video later on in task ten. I took my phone and asked one of my friends if they would be able to record me rolling up the wheel or taking pictures of the wheel for me.
Entry #10 November 20, 2016 :
Today I am putting in these journals into the site and this is going to be my ELA component. I am also adding my video onto my Home page. While I was putting the video together it was difficult uploading it to YouTube but other than that it wasn't the hardest part of the project. I am almost done with the website the only thing that I am missing is my Brochure. I will be doing that soon and completely finishing my site and I am exited for that. I am proud of the work that is on this site it took me a while but I am almost done.