Reflective Blog #4

Reflective Blog #4

This week in 3rd hour was full of learning and quizzes.  We as a class did a lot of worksheets and one or two activities as table groups. First off on Monday we finished up whiteboarding worksheet 3 on number five and finished it up.  My favorite question of this packet was the question about the ring and if Alicia should dump her boyfriend for giving her a phony ring, I'm pretty sure the class decided that she should dump him.  Even though we never did question eight we still moved on.  Tewusday we did an interesting activity of find the density of a gas.  Our first atempt was foiled when the bottle in the water tipped.  I think this happened because we had around a pill and a half so it made more gas then the light bottle could trap so it erupted from the bottom and tip over.  We found that the density of the gas was nearly 600% less dense than water so when we did a particle diagram it was less than 1 to 600 but we learned to draw gases with very few particles

The gas rising to the top of the bottle

On Wednesday we did worksheet four where we learned to find mass or volume with density and either mass or volume depending on which one you were given in the first place, this method is pretty easy to remember how to do. We did a lot of the problems on the back with you going over them afterwards. This was very helpful to me as it is less likely to be done wrong than other equations.
Thursday you had told us that we were having a test so the night before I made a quizlet set and studied it for a little bit, it was a nice review to me.  The actual test wasn't hard at all and I aced with ease. At first you accidently handed me Bobby's quiz and I thought I had done horrible but then me and Bobby switched and everything was alright, for me at least. After the test we did an activity to find the thickness of aluminum foil and we had to come up with procedure first.  We found the mass and took the density of aluminum to find the volume and the took the two dimensions that we knew to find the thickness we did have a little computing error but we fixed it once we found out,  It was so thin and the heavy duty was about 1.5 times thicker for most data.

My table's data and calculations

Friday you gave us another quiz and gave us back our old ones. This quiz was just as easy as the last one and I'm sure that I ace it too.  After the quiz you handed back and went over the reading scales worksheet.  Tables were assigned questions and went up to the board and wrote the answer, other poeple were allowed to come up and write their number if they thought the group was wrong.  I really liked this way of reviewing because it meant you could disagree and vioce your opinion or correct mistakes. All in all this week was fun and their was lots of learning