When it came time to do our sketch we gathered materials and studied them to see what we could do with them. Then we thought about how we could make our task work. We soon realized the it would be hard so we decided to change our idea. We put a lot of thought into because we wanted our idea to be the perfect fit. After awhile of thinking we finally came up with our idea. We figured out how we could get it to work. We thought that it would be easier to work backwards then work forwards so we drew out how we would end it then worked backwards. It was a struggle because we weren’t sure what would work and what wouldn’t. We decided that we would test things out then draw it out so we can change our decision easily because we had already tried it.
Today we presented our rocketry slideshow. 3 out of the 5 groups went: Rockets Inc., Radical Rockets and Rocket Crushers. The remaining groups: Flying Savages and The Rampaging Rockets would go tomorrow. On both days the Rocketry Unit Overview group would go. The class was divided into 5 groups with 4 members in each group. I was in Rockets Inc. and the Rocketry Unit Overview.
For each Rocket we had to design, build, launch and reflect. As we were in the process we had to make a slideshow that took you through the experience. We had to include our thoughts and why we made a decision or why we changed something to improve our rocket.
I was pretty nervous for the presentation. We started practicing The Rocketry Unit Overview about a week ago so we weren’t as prepared. However we have been working on the slideshow since the beginning of the year and started practicing it at least a month ago. I thought that I did much better then I expected.