Rocketry Reflection

In class we are doing a unit in science called Rocketry. Right now we are designing our first rocket design! All we have done is our inspiration board and the inspiration board is supposed to inspire us.

The inspiration board took a long time because my group didn’t really know what stuff to put. We were also disagreeing about what quotes inspire us personally. We were having a pretty hard time finding out what to put and we put “the three laws of motion” by Isaac Newton but our teacher said we had to put a text box about how it helped us with our rocket design and we did not know what that exactly meant when she said it. We then took very long to figure out what to write and by then we were a mess and behind all the other groups. We finished a few days after.

Our rocket design is very simple. How we came up with was that two of our group members made each a rocket on google drawings, but after they had finished we had realized that they were the same except they were different colors. The other two group members then voted on which one was better and then the group members who voted made a rocket each and the same thing happened. They voted. We then took the two winners rockets and combined them! It was cool to see the features on one combined with another, and that became our final first rocket design.

 

Identity Maps/Bags

In class we had an assignment. The assignment was to fill your identity bag and do an identity map. They both helped me get to know my classmates better!

I think that identity maps were and are such a good idea! They bring out someones true personality and hobbies. Identity maps can really express someone without people talking! The identity maps tell other people their hobbies and favorite activities. Even if you are the one writing it you can actually figure out what you like. You may figure out you like SO many things they don’t all even fit on the paper! I found out that one of my very close friends hates bees?! Such a surprise!  Identity maps bring out someone without motion or talking!

Identity bags were another great idea. It expresses people in a different way then the identity map. People bring in anything and they say represent them because maybe they travel a lot, or they love eating, or it represents their family or anything really! If some people are from different cultures they may bring in a doll from where ever they are from! A bunch of different people brought totally different things! I brought in things that even some of my very close friends didn’t know I had. I definitely learned all sorts of things from everyone’s identity bags that I never knew! It was a great start of the year project and was definitely worth grabbing all the things that represented myself!