Jayden's Portfolio

What did I do?

I work on finding something to bake and found and calculated the weight of the ingredients along with what the price of my food. I also made posters for my food with math equations that got my result. finally I couldn’t make the food but I sold some apple pie.

What did I learn?

I learned how to work with the weights to transfer weight of a ingredient in the U.S system to the metric system. I also learned how to sell food.

What worked?

the math worked well for me with a lot of help from Mr. Merino. I worked well with the math and selling the products along with the poster makings.

What did not work?

I couldn’t make the food that I prepared due the the high level that it takes to make and the resources that I did not have in my hand at the time and now. I needed a lot of help from Mr. Merino and I had to do all the work alone.

Personal relevance

I think that it would help me in the future if I were working in a shop or if I had to sell something. Other than those I can’t think of anything else.

We made a balloon car to see the distance it travels. It is made out of foam, plastic, tape, hot glue, weights, and a balloon. We used this to investigate Newton’s Law.

Newton’s first Law is how an object will stay at rest unless its acted upon an external force, or known as inertia. Newton’s second Law is in an equation F=ma which is also F is the net force, M is mass, and A is acceleration. Newton’s third and last Law is and action there is an equal and opposite reaction, you could also say action and reaction. This connects to the balloon car because it shows with Newton’s first Law how the balloon car is acted on the balloons air pumping out. it shows Newton’s second Law by showing how the more weights there are on the car the distance it travels is shorter, for the final law it connects t the car because when the balloon car pumps out the opposite force pushes it back but the force from the balloon is stronger.

We made our car really small so the opposite force has less power so we could go faster and further. We also filled the balloon as much as we could to put more force to it to accelerate faster and stronger. So we got really fast and thats what worked well.

What didn’t work well is how the balloon car went too fast and we couldn’t control it as too much force was put into the balloon and too much was let out so we lost power fast and moved even faster with too much energy let out. So if I wanted to fix this problem I will add less air and make the car larger.

This connects to our everyday life because Newton’s Laws are everywhere, and the car shows how force let out of a object could move and depends on how much you let out and how you let it out and use it.

The criteria for the Egg Car is to protect the Egg car from a fatal crash from a high ramp.

We see Newton’s 1st Law in action with the Egg Car when the car crashes into the wall and the car stops and doesn’t move unless acted upon. We see Newton’s 3rd Law in action with the Egg Car when the car hits the wall and the egg still wants to move.

The Egg Car the we made worked well because we made a strong seatbelt and crumple zone that helped the car survive.

What was not successful was how the egg kind of fell out of the car because of the force on the front pushed back the the middle of the car. To solve this problem I will make something to absorb the force.

It is important to know Newton’s Laws because the science is used to develop the understanding of how to be safe from a crash and the science in a vehicle which is shown Newton’s 1st and 3rd Laws and how it could keep us safe.

What did I do?

I played with Gravitrax and with indi robot cars to improve my critical thinking skills.

What did I learn?

Critical thinking is how you think when you have the questions, “What do I know about this, And what did I do or learn to know this,”

What worked?

I used many different ways to solve the problems that failed in my work.

What did not work?

I struggled to work with my partners because we all have different opinions on how to do things and how not. I struggled when we were working on the Gravitrax because when I wanted higher builds they wanted to stay low and safe.

Personal Relevance

Todays learning is like the everyday life, you always have to make decisions in your everyday life sometimes you make good decisions other times you don’t but you know what to do the next time. Todays learning will help me make smarter decisions as a student. And to keep working even when I make a bad decision.