Final Blog Post

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My overall thoughts of the project are pretty positive. One I enjoyed not having to learn during the fourth quarter. Two, the project allowed us to try and use physics in the out side world. This allowed us to try to make use of what we learned from the textbook and incorporate it in our own ways. The things that when well in our project was our completion of the task. We planned to do a watering system and we did it. Although we were rushed because of the time situation, we tried our best to do what was needed to be done when it was needed to be done. The things that did not go as planned was the blogging situation. We all planned to keep a steady rotation, but that didn't work out. Because of things such as work and short term memory, we all forgot to blog one day or another. I learned that in order to be on top of things, you need to know what you are always going to do. Also, finding trust in your group is hard. You can't depend on one person to blog. Checking the blog every night would be a good idea. To make this a better activity, more of a connection to physics should be made with all projects. If learning nothing for a whole quarter is what students are doing, they should at least be taking something out of the textbook and using what they learned in the 1st-3rd quarter to do their project. I do not think I was doing science. We didn't measure any pressure with an instrument, we just tested the pipes out and checked if water flowed out from each hole. In the end, I enjoyed the project and helping out the two elementary school teachers.