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| I organized my video notes folder with my only reliable partner Eric Hernandez. |
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| We facetimed each other while making our 100 vocabulary terms. |
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| Eric and I finished up the video notes at my kitchen table. |
Saturday, April 2, 2016
STUDY SELFIES
Monday, January 25, 2016
Reflection
In December when Ms.moreno first brought up the math and science night, I was really excited to figure out a biology experiment that would be fun yet simple for younger kids. So I did some research, watched a couple of videos, looked on some websites, and what appealed to me the most was homemade lava lamps. As my group assembled It was not much of an issue to find out what exactly we would be doing. I threw out the idea of the lamps and everyone seemed to find it interesting and cool. My main role of the group was organizing everything. Down from group chats, to who’s bringing what, testing the experiment, and making the poster. Overall, I have to say that “Fun with lava” turned out to be a success.
At Los Medanos, preparing and setting up for our booth was quite easy. Eric and I were one of the first couple of people to arrive, and we were able to pick out a good station that had an electrical outlet and that was also separated from everyone else's booths. While getting everything together as a group we did go through a couple of obstacles such as oil spills and adjustment of lights but they were easily fixed all thanks to the help of Kevin with his handy dandy napkins, and Eric who used tape to keep the wobbly lamps still. By the time we were signaled for the doors to open, our booth was successfully put together.
As kids came and went I could tell they were quite astonished with our lamps. Many asked to take them home, and I was surprised with the amount of parents that asked what we were using because they wanted to do it again with their children. We received comments such as “Cool!”, “Awesome!”, and they even compared my real lava lamp with the homemade ones they were making. It amazed me how engaged the children became as the sodium bicarbonate fizzed in the bottles. I could tell they enjoyed picking out their own color lamp to use, and dropping tiny tablets of the alka seltzer in the concoctions.
I could easily say that those couple of hours at Los Medanos was time well spent. It has definitely helped me learn how to interact with younger kids. Even if it was something as simple as speaking in a softer tone or using silly hand gestures to help describe what I'm talking about. Of course, nothing would have been possible without the help of my group members Uwaila, Eric, Sean, Kevin, Jose and Erin! My experience at the math and science night was a fun and “groovy” one.
Special thanks to...
Ms.Moreno for buying our group oil
Eric for helping me test out the experiment, sodium bicarbonate, rides, and for getting me pizza when I was at the booth
Kevin for the infinite supply of napkins and the sodium bicarbonate
Sean for helping break tablets and finding specific colors of bottles for the kids
Uwaila for helping with setting up and for the extra cable cord
Jose and Erin for the extra oil
At Los Medanos, preparing and setting up for our booth was quite easy. Eric and I were one of the first couple of people to arrive, and we were able to pick out a good station that had an electrical outlet and that was also separated from everyone else's booths. While getting everything together as a group we did go through a couple of obstacles such as oil spills and adjustment of lights but they were easily fixed all thanks to the help of Kevin with his handy dandy napkins, and Eric who used tape to keep the wobbly lamps still. By the time we were signaled for the doors to open, our booth was successfully put together.
As kids came and went I could tell they were quite astonished with our lamps. Many asked to take them home, and I was surprised with the amount of parents that asked what we were using because they wanted to do it again with their children. We received comments such as “Cool!”, “Awesome!”, and they even compared my real lava lamp with the homemade ones they were making. It amazed me how engaged the children became as the sodium bicarbonate fizzed in the bottles. I could tell they enjoyed picking out their own color lamp to use, and dropping tiny tablets of the alka seltzer in the concoctions.
I could easily say that those couple of hours at Los Medanos was time well spent. It has definitely helped me learn how to interact with younger kids. Even if it was something as simple as speaking in a softer tone or using silly hand gestures to help describe what I'm talking about. Of course, nothing would have been possible without the help of my group members Uwaila, Eric, Sean, Kevin, Jose and Erin! My experience at the math and science night was a fun and “groovy” one.
Special thanks to...
Ms.Moreno for buying our group oil
Eric for helping me test out the experiment, sodium bicarbonate, rides, and for getting me pizza when I was at the booth
Kevin for the infinite supply of napkins and the sodium bicarbonate
Sean for helping break tablets and finding specific colors of bottles for the kids
Uwaila for helping with setting up and for the extra cable cord
Jose and Erin for the extra oil
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