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Unit 2 Otzi Unit Portfolio Reflection 

December 1, 2025 /
  1. What did I work on? 
  1. During this unit, ‘Why should we care about the past?’, I worked on  
  1. Making observations, inferences and wonderings 
  1. Using photos and articles as evidence 
  1. Writing a CER paragraph 
  1. Asking and answering open and closed questions 
  1. Taking part in the Ötzi Mock Trial, my role was Cort Reporter 
  1. What did I learn? Why should we care about the past? 
  1. We should care about the past because we can learn how the people lived in the neolithic period.  
  1. We learned about how the people where resourceful and used everything they can find 
  1. We learned about how they made all their clothes, tools, and medicine, from nature.  
  1. What worked well? 
  1. I am proud of the following work, making a newspaper article, open and closed questions, and writing a CER paragraph.  
  1. I am proud of the work above because I did it by my own and I made the article neatly.  
  1. What did not work well? 
  1. I found some of this work challenging, facts and wonderings, the podcast and learning to the different time periods.  
  1. I found the work above challenging because I had to catch the information.  
  1. Personal Relevance 
  1. Collaboration and communications skills are important in my future because I will have to collaborate in my future work.  
  1. This is a photo about the mock trial

Balloon Car Challenge

November 29, 2025 /

What did I do?

For this activity, we had to build a car powered only by a balloon that can travel the farthest distance in a straight line. First, we made the bace of the car out of tray or cardboard, we used straws to hold the metal pins (or axles). Then, we put 4 wheels on the axle and finally used a rubber band to hold the Balloon.

What did I learn?

We learned about Newton’s laws of motion. His 3rd law of motion is For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. When the balloon lets out air, it transfers into force and the car will move. Newton’s 2nd law is The law of acceleration, or force equals to mass times acceleration. If the car is lighter, you will not need a lot of air in the balloon to make it move. (The object with bigger acceleration and smaller mass will go farther). His 1st law of motion is The Law of inertia. An object at rest tends to stay at rest unless another force acts upon it, or an object in motion tends to stay in motion unless another force acts upon it.

What worked?

What worked well was collaborating with my partner we worked together well and had excellent communication which helped us build our car successfully. We made the wheels very straight so that the car wouldn’t have a lot of friction. This also helped our car move forward without tilting to the left or right.

What did not work?

While we where building our car, the balloon kept falling off and we had to tape it with masking tape. However, there was no more masking tape left so we used clear tape instead and it wasn’t as strong. We had to make the tape we had work.

Personal Relevance

Throughout this project, we learned how to be resourceful when dealing with challenges with communication and teamwork. It is important to figure out a solution when you have limited resources.

Egg Car Challenge

November 20, 2025 /

What did I do?

I made a car that can safely go down a slope, hit a concrete block and prevent the egg inside it from breaking. These are the constraints of making the egg car:

-only approved construction materials can be used to build your
car

-the car can be no wider than 6.5 cm from the outside of one
wheel to the outside of the opposite wheel

-the car can be no longer than 16.5 cm

-once in the car the egg must be visible

-the car must freely roll down the ramp, no sliding allowed

-1 meter of tape

-no parachutes, wings or propellers may be used to slow your car

-the straw can only be used as an axle housing

-the egg must be easily placed in and removed from your car

-once on the track the car is not allowed to be touched

-only colored pencils and markers can be used to decorate your
car

-your safety system must have at least two parts

-no video watching in class to make paper shapes

-all designs must be built in class.

This is the link for the video of car crashhttps://saschina-my.sharepoint.com/personal/melissa_kirwin_saschina_org/_layouts/15/stream.aspx?id=%2Fpersonal%2Fmelissa%5Fkirwin%5Fsaschina%5Forg%2FDocuments%2FB1%20Egg%20Car%20Videos%2FIMG%5F0251%2Emov&referrer=StreamWebApp%2EWeb&referrerScenario=AddressBarCopied%2Eview%2Ebf06f2af%2Df0a8%2D4eec%2D8d37%2Dde6c61bdf7fc

What did I learn?

We can see newton’s 3rd and 1st law in the challenge. Newton’s first law states that an object that is in the state of rest tends to stay in rest unless acted upon another force. When the egg car goes down the slope and hits the concrete block, the car is stoped but the egg will want to keep moving. In order for it too, not keep moving forward we can use seatbelts and airbag to protect the egg. Newton third law states that for every action, there is an equal opposite reaction. We can see this in the egg cart because when the car hits the concrete block, it is exerting force into it. However, the concrete block didn’t move. This means that it is exerting and equal and opposite force to the car.

What worked?

We successfully finished most of the egg cart in the first day and just made a few changes in the second. It also successfully carried the fake egg prevent prevented it from popping out.

What did not work?

If I had another chance to make the egg cart again, I would make some changes. First, I would make the egg car more stable because it was a little unstable on the track. Second, I will protect the egg more, although it didn’t fall out of the car it’s still cracked and broke. Finally, I think that we should agree on the idea first, and then make it because I had a little problem with my partner, deciding on what design we’re gonna make.

Personal Relevance

It is important to learn critical thinking because we can use it in our future life. At work, we also face challenges, and we have to solve it with our partners.

Science – Critical Thinking

October 14, 2025 /

What did I do?

I played with a color detecting robot (Indy) and a marble run (Gravitrax) and used my critical thinking skills to complete the challenges. For Gravatrax, we needed to make the longest and most exciting marble run in 15 minutes. For Indy, my group had added the missing colors to finish the track and make indy go the right way.

Gravitrax
Indy

What did I learn?

We learned about how to be assessed on our critical thinking skills. Critical thinking is my ability to solve problems and make well informed decisions. For example, when we are playing with Indy, the robot wasn’t that precise with the direction it’s going. When it was supposed to turn 90 degrees, it turned 80 degrees and wouldn’t be on the next color like we wanted to. We had to adjust the next colors to let Indy detect it after it turns.

What worked?

We successfully finished the tasks and we’re fast enough to do the challenges. Also, because I played with Indy on orientation day, so I know the directions the robot will go that is why we were very fast when finishing the table.

What did not work?

Next time, I think that we should include everyone in our group. Not everyone had a chance to play with Indy and solve the challenges.

Personal Relevance

Critical thinking is important because it helps you to solve problems using well informed decisions. Teamwork is equally as important and next time we can do better and make sure everyone’s ideas and thoughts are included.

Welcome to Your New Portfolio!

August 28, 2025 /

Why have a digital portfolio at SAS?

Creating a portfolio, or blog is a great way to collect all the work you’ve done throughout your academic career. You can include academic, athletic, and personal artifacts or experiences that you want to share with a wider audience. This is a great way to organize all your learning in one place and you can take it with you when you leave SAS.  When you make your portfolio, you create posts that are categorized according to your subject. Some categories have already been set up for you, but if you need more categories you can add them as needed. It’s important that your posts have the following:
  • An engaging title – this should not include the name of the subject since this is referenced in the category. Think of this as the first opportunity to engage and hook your reader!
  • Body – this is where you share your learning. This should include a combination of text and media in the form of images, graphics, and embedded videos. You should always consider how your post looks to your audience. Is it engaging and organized? Do they want to keep reading?
  • Category – select one that has been set for you or add a new category. Posts can have more than one category e.g. Humanities and Myself as a Learner
  • Tags – create tags that can be used as keywords to describe your post. Tags help organize your post a little more! Aim to have 3-5 tags for each post. For example, if you are posting about a novel you wrote, you might want the following tags: #Fiction, #MurderMystery, #Theme, #PlotDiagram

Take a look at the images below to find a few helpful tips for creating your posts and using the block editor:

Getting Familiar with the Block Editor:

Making a New Post:

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