Entry #1 September 14, 2016
Today my teacher announced that our pbl projects are coming up, and we would have to choose a partner and a project. On the same day, he gave everyone a list of options of projects we could do. Me and my partner chose the smoke rings/air zooka project.
Entry #2 September 21, 2016
This was when we started doing our research. We each researched on different parts of the project, and then shared our info with each other. I found out a lot about smoke rings and how the air zooka worked. Once we got all the information, we created our emails, made the website, and started putting everything together.
Entry #3 September 28, 2016
Today was the first day we stayed after school to work on the project. We didn't do the actual experiment though, we just worked on the website. We finished the background research and wrapped up everything else by the end of the day. This was the easy part of the project though, we now have to prepare for the second quarter where we'll be doing the actual experiment.
Entry #4 October 8, 2016
At this point we're just wrapping things up and making sure everything is in place. I went over all the pages and made sure everything was perfect. The quarter is coming to an end so we have to make sure we did everything we were supposed to.
Entry #5 October 12, 2016
Today is the final day of the quarter that we are staying after school for the project. We mainly finalized everything and let the teacher look over it before we turn it in. After he checked everything, turns out we did a good job. He said everything looked good and in order.
Entry #6 October 19, 2016
The first quarter just finished, and now we're heading into the second quarter, so we have to do the actual project now. Today we are gathering all our information together and planning out how we're going to do the experiment. We have to make sure we have all our materials required for the project.
Entry #7 October 28, 2016
Now we have to actually start the actual experiment, so today, we stayed after school in Mr. Keles's room and did the experiment. We first filled the container with smoke, then we pulled the ball back and let go, which shot out the smoke rings. After we finished conducting the experiment and recording everything, we cleaned up. All we have to do now is make the video and add it all to the website.
Entry #8 November 16, 2016
Today was supposed to be the day we finalize the whole project and be done with everything, but there were some complications. It turned out that if we were in the video, we had to be wearing our uniform, so we had to do the experiment and record all over again. So today we did it all again and made sure everything was perfect.
Entry #9 December 1, 2016
Today is the day we're finishing everything, which is basically just the video. We met up at bambu around 3 to try to finalize the video. We had to put everything together and add the voiceover. It has to be all done today because the whole PBL project is due tomorrow.
Entry #10 December 2, 2016
Today is the due date for the first checking. We finished the project yesterday and stayed after school to let Mr. Keles check our website and everything. After he looked over it, he told us what we needed to fix. We had a few mistakes, but it was nothing we couldn't do quickly. We are just relieved we finally finished this PBL project.