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Project Overview
The purpose of this project was to understand how everyone experiences challenges and successes in their lives. We also had to learn how to create a balance scale. We learned that in order for the scale to be balanced, the total mass X distance must be equal on both sides. The steps of this project were to find out more about our partner, then find out a few challenges and successes they experienced in their lives. After learning about balance, we had to make a blueprint for our mobile that explained how it would balance.
The challenges and success in our partners lives had to balance out in the mobile (see blueprint below). Then we built objects to represent each challenge and success in their lives. My partner's name is Brittany Seymour. Brittany's challenges were; writing a report on Kenya, taking a two year class in church to confirm, and jumping of a 25 foot waterfall. I chose to represent these with a fake report, a cross, and a water droplet. Brittany's successes were; graduating eighth grade, saving up money for a car, and getting onto a competitive soccer team. I represented these successes with a diploma, a wooden car, and a soccer net.
The next step in this project was to measure the mass, volume and density of our objects (see object chart below). I measured the mass using a scale. I calculated the volume using the displacement method and/or tracing my object onto graph paper and counting the squares, then multiplying by the hight. I calculated the density by dividing the mass by the volume. I used wooden doweling for the rods of my mobile.
Overall, my mobile turned out really well. It looked close to what I had planed it to look in my blueprints. A mistake I made was not calculating in enough weight for the wooden doweling in my blueprints. If I were to do this project again, I would have spent more time making the finished mobile look more colorful and exciting because mine is boring. But overall, I feel that I worked really hard on this project, and I am proud of my finished mobile.
The purpose of this project was to understand how everyone experiences challenges and successes in their lives. We also had to learn how to create a balance scale. We learned that in order for the scale to be balanced, the total mass X distance must be equal on both sides. The steps of this project were to find out more about our partner, then find out a few challenges and successes they experienced in their lives. After learning about balance, we had to make a blueprint for our mobile that explained how it would balance.
The challenges and success in our partners lives had to balance out in the mobile (see blueprint below). Then we built objects to represent each challenge and success in their lives. My partner's name is Brittany Seymour. Brittany's challenges were; writing a report on Kenya, taking a two year class in church to confirm, and jumping of a 25 foot waterfall. I chose to represent these with a fake report, a cross, and a water droplet. Brittany's successes were; graduating eighth grade, saving up money for a car, and getting onto a competitive soccer team. I represented these successes with a diploma, a wooden car, and a soccer net.
The next step in this project was to measure the mass, volume and density of our objects (see object chart below). I measured the mass using a scale. I calculated the volume using the displacement method and/or tracing my object onto graph paper and counting the squares, then multiplying by the hight. I calculated the density by dividing the mass by the volume. I used wooden doweling for the rods of my mobile.
Overall, my mobile turned out really well. It looked close to what I had planed it to look in my blueprints. A mistake I made was not calculating in enough weight for the wooden doweling in my blueprints. If I were to do this project again, I would have spent more time making the finished mobile look more colorful and exciting because mine is boring. But overall, I feel that I worked really hard on this project, and I am proud of my finished mobile.
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