1. Justify how this project/activity/assignment meets the standard, using evidence from the standard itself to demonstrate your mastery and/or understanding.
This assignment is about calculating density to see if it is buoyant or not. We made a foil boat and put it in water. After, we added metal washers to see how many it will be able to hold. We had to find the mass and volume of our boat. Everyone's boat is unique so the mass and volume will be different for everyone.
2. Elaborate on at least 1 Science & Engineering Practice you feel you met/gained from completing this project.
One SEP that I feel I have gained using mathematics and computational thinking. I used a calculator to find out the mass and volume for my boat. I also predicted how many metal washers my boat might hold. This skill can come in handy in math class because there will be a lot of computational thinking in math.
3. Upon reflecting on your work/experience and/or score, what is one SEP you could have done better on? How will improving in this SEP benefit future works/projects? Give me next steps for improving in this SEP.
I feel that I could've done better for making the boat more secure. My boat may have been big but it was thin. There was a chance of it breaking if it wasn't so lucky. I could've made it more sturdier by putting more foil around the whole boat. Putting layers after layers would've helped, but I was limited to the amount of foil so I couldn't do that.
4. How will you presently apply the content and skills you learned from this assignment in the real-world,outside of the classroom? Make connections between the content and your life.
I can apply the skills of finding mass and volume and finding the density after. There will be a time when I have to figure out if an object will sink or float. I can do that by finding the density of an object and seeing if it will be buoyant or not. When I want to teach kids about bouyancy, then I will know the information about it so that I am able to explain it well.
This assignment is about calculating density to see if it is buoyant or not. We made a foil boat and put it in water. After, we added metal washers to see how many it will be able to hold. We had to find the mass and volume of our boat. Everyone's boat is unique so the mass and volume will be different for everyone.
2. Elaborate on at least 1 Science & Engineering Practice you feel you met/gained from completing this project.
One SEP that I feel I have gained using mathematics and computational thinking. I used a calculator to find out the mass and volume for my boat. I also predicted how many metal washers my boat might hold. This skill can come in handy in math class because there will be a lot of computational thinking in math.
3. Upon reflecting on your work/experience and/or score, what is one SEP you could have done better on? How will improving in this SEP benefit future works/projects? Give me next steps for improving in this SEP.
I feel that I could've done better for making the boat more secure. My boat may have been big but it was thin. There was a chance of it breaking if it wasn't so lucky. I could've made it more sturdier by putting more foil around the whole boat. Putting layers after layers would've helped, but I was limited to the amount of foil so I couldn't do that.
4. How will you presently apply the content and skills you learned from this assignment in the real-world,outside of the classroom? Make connections between the content and your life.
I can apply the skills of finding mass and volume and finding the density after. There will be a time when I have to figure out if an object will sink or float. I can do that by finding the density of an object and seeing if it will be buoyant or not. When I want to teach kids about bouyancy, then I will know the information about it so that I am able to explain it well.