Thursday, July 10, 2008

Journal Day 4


How are we doing?


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How have we changed as teams? as individuals? and scholars?


How can we improve our wind turbines?

How can we improve our academic skills?


48 comments:

Anonymous said...

Q1

AS a team and as individuals we have gotten stronger. We are able to come together and work when needed and are able to focus on our own work when needed

Q2

YOu can sand your wires or loosen your the pin on the stick so the turbine has less friction and can move faster in the wind.

Q3

To improve my academic skills I have to pay attention a bit more. If I focus I will be able to do my work more successfully.

Anonymous said...

We are doing well, as a team we have improved because we feel more competitive about the test, i think tht we can improve our wind turbines by going back over the instructions to make sure tht any problem we hve is corrected, i think we can improve our academic skills by working harder on research

Anonymous said...

i have changed as a person because i am now able to work better as a team, and in a group. ive learned that we all have to work together to get the job done, and that teamwork is the key. many groups had a little bit of problems but we quikly corrected them. most people had to either loosen the pin on top of the wind turbine, or had to move the magnets closer to the wires. overall, it was a success.

Anonymous said...

As teams we changed because we learned to over come power struggles and work as a team. As indivisuals we learned more about ourselves and what we can or cannot do.
I think r that we can improve our wind turbines if we used stronger magnets and bigger coils. A stronger frame would be be a possibility because when the wind hits it, it starts to shake, and look loose.
I dont really know how to improve our academic skills. I dont like to read much.

Anonymous said...

I think we have changed by working with eachother because not everyone knows everyone else in summer school and when we get to know them we learn new think, like how they cooperate and they learn to work with each other. Also i think if we work indivitual then we might have a better chance bacuase most kids are better when they comkplete the project in their own pasific way.

Anonymous said...

How are we doing?

I think we need to work on our team work and get better respect for each other.

How have we changed as teams? as individuals? and scholars?

At first we were playing around and didnt do any work. but after a while we began working and even though we didnt do good i think we became a better team in the end. As an indavidual i think I've changed for the better im doing my work and succeeding.And as a scholar, Even though i didn't do good during the school year I believe that due to this ill do good next year.

How can we improve our wind turbines?

we can improve our wind turbines by fixing the wires and magnets as well as the bottle so that it will go fast and get a good reading.

How can we improve our academic skills?

I think by using my talents in summer school for academic work i can eventually use it for regular school. We can learn how to work as a team instead of work seperately and thus helping us in the real world and in school.

Anonymous said...

we have changed as teams and individuals by building our wind turbines. We learned to work in groups and isten to each others ideas. I think overal every group is doing pretty good because they at leats got their wind turbines finished.Most groups have thier wind working correctly. we can improve our turbines by putting the magnets closer to the coiled wires or sand the wires more. Some groups can also make sure that their magnets are set up correctly or if their wires are set correctly on the clockwise and counterclockwise places.

Anonymous said...

we are doing very fine.everything is going good for me.we changed as a team by working together to get everything done.As a indiviuals im doing good.helping my group with what they need help and doing my job.As a scholars i use my time wisley here to get everything done so i won't have to be here.We can improve our wind turbines by fixin what need to be so that it can go fast and it can get a high volt.We can improve our academic skills by working hard in what we need help in and to what we interested in.Our academice skills is going good because we work as a team to get everything done on time.

Anonymous said...

We are doing alright could be doing better. We have change as a team by understanding where everyone strength and weakness are. The teachers all became understanding. As individuals everyone is this program I think learn that they should do what is right during the year and don't have to worry about coming back nest year. I also think everybody knows now is to just do what is right the first time and get it over with so it doesn't have to be a second time. We can improve the turbines by making the sticks stronger, also by making the magnets closer to the wires, and last but not least making sure the wires are exactly wired correctly. Both clockwise and counter clockwise. We can improve our academic skills by doing our work and actually paying attention.

Anonymous said...

i think my group and i could have done better. but we didnt do bad at all. the first time that we checked our turbines we did better than the 2nd time around. i figured that happened because when we were trying to fix our our project to make it better we did worst even though afta we ade our changes and tested it we had hit a high ranking of 25. but when we did it in front of the class the second time it was 3 when in fact the 1st time it was 4.

personally i feel ive changed as a person because i hadnt really knew how to work in a group because id always have the easy way out and sometime i didnt have to do any work to get a high grade. but in this project i had to put my all into everything me and my group. i feel my group and i did pretty well we didnt argue or have any disagreements because we had all agreed on what we were going to do to ake out project much better.

we could have improved but not messing up as much as we did which had caused us to keep gluing and reglui g our project which eventually made it stiff. we also had cut our stick a little too short so it wasnt spinning correctly or itll blow off when the fan would hit our turbine.

i can improve my academic skill by listing little more and do more hands on activities.


TAJA MOORE*

Anonymous said...

We have changed as teams by becoming more cooperattive with one another.Also we have benn working as one.One not in unison but one as a working unit.
We have changed as indivduals by seeing change,seeing what is really happening in the world today.
As scholars we changed by thinking what is impossible can be possibble.Also that anything can be achived if you just put your mind to it.
We can improve our wind turbines by loosining up the friction and making the magnets lower so that you can proper amount of electrons fowing through the wires.
We can improve our academic skills by remembering what we did in summer school.Remebering how to be calm stay relax and concentrate on our school work.For nothing is impossible for your limitations are only set by your levels of awareness.

Anonymous said...

1.,We are doing much better tafter we have talked to Mr.Pugh because he dhad gave me alot more confidence and more ideas in what we should do to make our project the best.

2. we have changed as teams by learning that if we canput our mind to something we can finish with excelence.

We changed as individuals by knowing that we must help make our earth a better place and to know that everything we do kills the pollute the air .


3. we can improve our wind turbine in many ways my group had to sharpen the stick in order for it to spin but then we noticed that no voltage was taking place so n ow we must lower the magnets so that ours can be perfect .
4.I must improve my academic skills by paying more attention and putting my friends and everything behind academics .

Anonymous said...

we have changed as a team by being more cooperative with each other. As individuals we each got a role too do that we could do too dont be worry.

we could improve our wind turbines by gluing on the metal coin so when the wind blow the wind turbines move by itself, make sure too put the wire clockwise and counterclockwise so it could connected too the metal on top too move it.

we couuld improve our academic skills by knowing what too do, know how too use the tools and etc......

Anonymous said...

1.As teams i believe we have changed for the better. People are actually working together.As a individuals and scholars we i found a understanding for academics.
2.We can improve our wind turbines by findind out what is the problem with the wires.
3. we can improve our academics by studying.

Anonymous said...

we are fine and yourself? we have by working together and not messing up and doing everything right. by learning how to work with others.same as work in groups. by making the magnets closer to the wire and sharpping the stick on the nail. keep working with others.

Anonymous said...

We changed as teams by being determind into doing each of our parts to the project. We changed as individuals by being more intrested in doing our work so we can keep up with the rest. We changed as scholars by actually comming to school and working hard for our credits.
We can improve our wind turbines by putting the magnets closer to the wires. We can improve our academic skills by working hard and doing all of our work.

Anonymous said...

I think we're doing pretty well. I think that people worked good together. They just need to listen to eachother more. I don't think we changed much. It's no different from what we do during the year. We're used to working together in groups. As individuals we have changed a lot, because people who usually don't do anything or just dont show up came and did what they had to do. We can improve our wind turbines by looking over every detail making sure everything is correct. Also Making sure the magnets are in the right place and making sure the stick is good to turn. I think we can imoprove our academic skills by working with people who are more on our leval. If we're working with people who are a little "slower" than us, it feels like they're slowing you down.

Anonymous said...

1. In the past week our summer school as a class has grown in alot of ways. I think people that once weren't able to work together have learned to be more adverse and help out their team mates. I personally did this last year so the working with others to get the project done isn't new to me.

2. Some of the team's wind turbines worked just fine some exceeded others and some of them did not work at all. The best thing I think we can do now is for the teams who are done should help out the people in the teams that haven't completed their turbines so that we're all done on time.

3. We can all improve our academic skills by learning more on the educational weaknesses that we lack. For example I'm not good with deadlines but to pass I have to complete my projects by a certain date. If I really want to pass then I'd work hard regardless to get my credits.

Anonymous said...

well i'm not really sure about as a team, but as a individual i can say that i have took to heart that this is school and even if my pears don't feel tye need to put in toward our work it still has to be done. So even though during the project I felt at times that onlyn me and one of my group mmates were putting forth, I still TRIED. Even though our project did not come out the way I would of liked it to. I still atempted to do something and I made progress.


well i know that i could probley improve my wind turbine if i began from the top, and i started off telling myself that i was doijng this alone, with no assistance. Then i would've been able to do it on my on paste at my own time.

i think the only thing that i can improve on in my skills is to pretty much relax drop evrything and focuse on whats important. SCHOOL!

*brandee*

Anonymous said...

We are doing ok, looking at the graph there were great improvements from the 2nd test than the first one. Some groups really need help to make their wind turbines work. We have changed as teams in many different aspects. I think everyone has learned to be more respectful to others and teachers during the program as well as working harder to prove that they deserve the credits they need. I changed in a way that I’m more open minded to different things even if I don’t like what I’m doing I make the best of it. The wind turbines can be improved by starting over because you can learn and see what your mistakes were the first time and make it better the second time. Our academic skills have all improved through this program this past week. I think everyone has there own academic skill that they are really good at and they bring it to the table.

Anonymous said...

Group 5 is doing great. We work together and its working. We had the second most voltage. We just fixed a wire problem and it improved so much. We have changed as a team by working togeteher and making a turbine work so good. I changed as a individual by helping my teammates out. If we all do this it might become a great turbine. We can improve our turbine by fixing the hieght of our stick and it will spin fast and generate electricity. We also have to center our pin and it will work even better. We can improve my academic skills with learning about thing that we dont know. We can learn more about elecromagents.

Anonymous said...

I think we're doing o.k. becuase some of us need a little more work tha other but we are all workig to their potential.Yes we have changed as teams becuase we are learning to work together. We can inprove our wind turbins by looking the instructions over. We can improve our academic skills by reading our work over and revising it.

Anonymous said...

Some ways we can imrpove our wind turbines is that makeing the bottle spinning more freely. Also sand your wire a lot more because that is what transfers the kenitic energy. If you have those two manly things done then that would be a great part, for a start.

Anonymous said...

well, thinks are starting to get preety intresting,it has opened my eyes and knowledge about the awarness of global warming.this project is leading the future to learn,live and genrate an econmic growth if we be smart and go green.As a team we can all make a difference, mabey not to the world but to those around us and our communites.
The wind turbines are environmaentaly friendly and can produce enough energy to sudsitute chemical plants that are bad for the envirnment. This can lead the next genaration to start taking actions in to their own hands and posslibaly save the life of mandkind.

Anonymous said...

We are doing well, as teams and individuals we have gotten much wiser and stronger. As scholors we are improving in our work as well.

We can improve our wind turbines by sanding the wires and places our magnets in the right place. Also by not putting the thumb tack too tight in the stick.

We can improve our academic skills by paying attention more and doing everything we have to do. If we just focus and ignore distractions we can improve our academic skills very well.

Anonymous said...

We haved changed alot as a team because we learned to work together and we all got along with each other. I have changed as an indivisual because i actually enjoyed making the wind turbines. Ive changed as a scholar because i am doing better in summer school regular school.

We can improve our wind turbines by lower our magnets closer to the wires.

We can improve our academic skills by working harder and I need focus little bit more on the work.
-Butta-

Anonymous said...

We now know eachother better since we have been in teams. I met people I've never talked to and I realized that they are nice people.We do great as teams, lots of team work! As an indival I have learned to except all people regardless of what I may think of them. I've have also learned to work together and you cant do evrything by yourslef. Our wind turbines are good they just need to be a little more adjusted and stronger. When I think about I dont know what we should do to them, but im sure we will figue it out. Maybe we can research more, find more information to strenthen our skills and undertsand things more. :-/..?

Anonymous said...

I think we are doing well together. We have changed as a team because we are learning to come together and work effectively. I have changed as individual because i am watching everything i do to try to help change the world. We can improve wind turbines by trying to put the magnet as close as we can without touching the wires. We can improve our academic skills by learning to work with others.

Anonymous said...

As teams i think we changed how we to work better together.as an indivdual i think i changed that i have to put more effort into my work. i havnt changed that much in the way of being a scholar i think i need more time to change in that way.

my personal opion we can improve our academics skills by incorperating every subject in everything we do in this program this summer

Anonymous said...

my team has changed alot since we first started.we have a better commiuncation with each other,and built trust in each other.as a individual I learned how to be more responsible.
one way my group can improve our wind turbines is by switching the magnets or loosing up the stick in the middle.

Anonymous said...

I THINK THAT WE CHANGED AS INDIVIALS BECAUSE WE LEARNED TO WORK AS A TEAM. AND NOT AS ENEMIES.BUT INDIVIUALS WHO SHOWED THAT WE CAN WORK TOGETHER. AND ACOMPLISH SOMETHING. 2.WE CAN IMPROVE OUR ACADIMIC BY LISTENING TO EACH OTHER AND ALSO BEING RESPECTFUL. TO OUR FRIENDS AND OUR TEACHERS. I THINK WE CAN IMPROVE OUR WIND TURBINES BY TAKING OUR TIME AND DO THE RIGHT THING AND LOOKING OVER OUR MISTAKES. SO WE CAN SEE WHERE WE WENT WRONG.

Anonymous said...

1.we have changed in all dese ways.we understand how we are affecting da enviornment and how we can help it as teams. as individuals we can tell others about global warming and why we need to stop it.As scholars we can do projects to show that we understand what we have to do to try to prevent global warming.

2.we can improve wind turbins by fixing our magnets and moving them closer to the wire.

3. we can improve our academic skills by allowing ourself to understand the concepts of this global warming project

Anonymous said...

In the beginning we weren't really serious us but in the we were starting to pull together as a team and started working on our problems. As an individual i have started concetrating on my work and focus on getting the job done. We can improve our wind turbines by figuring out what the problem is and working from there. Like moving the magnets donw more closer to the wires and checking if the wiring is wrong. We can improve our academic skills by foucusing and not get distracted easily and your work.

Anonymous said...

TylerGrima

1.How have we changed as teams? as individuals? and scholars? - The way that we have changed as teams is by we learned how to work and trust each other as a group,the way we changed as individuals is by each person learned how to work faster and as teams


2.How can we improve our wind turbines? - The way that we could improve our wind turbines is by we could make adjustments liek make a stronger frame

3.How can we improve our academic skills?- The way we can improve our academic skills is by working harder

Anonymous said...

we are doing well,we have changed as a team by being able to finish any given projectbefor due time and finish individual blog entry,we can improve our turbines by fixing the wireing on the bottom so that we can have a full ,i can improve my academic skills by not coming into school late not haveing problems with the teachers always being on mr.brown good side all the time and treating fello students like i would want to be treated

Anonymous said...

I think that we have changed a lot as a team because we learned how to work together and get along togther. We all put a part to the projects. I changed as an indivual because i learned to work in team better.

We can improve our wind turbines by lowering the magnets.

I can improve my academic skills by pay more attention and working a little harder.

Anonymous said...

The turrbine turned out pretty good. As teams we changed working together and helping other students to better improve there turbines. As individuals i changed the fact. i think i can improve on my wirting skills. We can improve on the wind turbines by putting the wires on perfectly, and making the bottle fan go faster.I can improve our acadmeic skills by doing more research and putting everything together.

Anonymous said...

how are we doing? i think we are doing good. i would do ever think we could go this far. or do all this good in summer school. we changed as a team because we are more like friends then coming to school ever day and just saying hello.its like we are geting more out as friends. i changed as and individuals by coming school going my class.also as and individual talking more and just opening up.

Anonymous said...

i think that im doin fine im workin hard for ALL my cridets. the way that we change all of our teams is that we made them better and we worked together and tryed to make something work and we had no problems. the way i think we could ov inproved cour wind turbins is we should ov carfully read the instructions and then a little bit more understandin would of been good

Anonymous said...

We are doing well as a team we have improved because we feel more competitive.Well we have changed as a team is by us having good teamwork and we came over any struggles that the project gave us.
The way i changed as a individual is by me having good communication with my group.The way my group can improve on our wind trubines is by builder a stronger fame.The way how i can improved our academic skills is by paying attention more and try to be more focused.

Anonymous said...

My group is doing excellent with our project. We came in first place during the first test. In the second test my group project came in third place. We changed as a atream because we learned to get along better with each other. My group can improve the wind turbines by removing the wires and do it over. We can improve our academic skills by cooperative with each other.

Anonymous said...

we have all change as a team by keeping on trying to do our very best on the wind turbines. although we had some difficulty trying to make it work well,we still believe that if we all and pay attention we can actually do it much better. as an individual i learned to not only listen to my group but also put their opinions in mind.I'm now aware of people working habits,being a leader or not.I strongly believe that we can improve our wind turbines,by re- checking the magnets and even the height from the wires and magnets. I would try to improve my academic skills by, actually getting thing done on time.

Anonymous said...

we have changed as a team because now we are more competitive and we want all our projects to be better than everyone elses ; i have changed as an individual because now i am able to communicate better with others and listen to ;; we can improve our wind turbines by helping each other out ;; our academic skills have changed over time :]

Anonymous said...

My team members and I had become stronger as group. We were able to work together without any problems and was able to focus on our work when asked.

Q2
We can improve our projects by sanding our wires a little more.
Q3
I think we can improve our academics skills by listens to the directions and work harder.

Anonymous said...

question1. i think as a team and indivisual we got better we cAN WORK TOGETHER WITH OUT ANY PROBLEMS OF WITH CERTAIN PEOPLE NOT DOING WORK

QUESTION 2. YOU CAN SAND YOUR WIRES A LITTLE BIT MORE

QUESTION 3. TO IMPROVE MY ACEDEMIC SKILLS I THINK THAT I NEED TO FOCUS ALOT MORE BECAUSE THATS THE ONLY WAY IM GOING 2 GET BETTER

Anonymous said...

I believe that as a team we have came closer to each other mentally, better partners n teamwork to complete tasks.As an indiviual i have learned more about about the enviornment and learned how to cooperate better with students and teachers. We can improve the wind turnbines by lowering the base with the magnets closer to the copper wire and also allowing the whole bottle to spin more freely. We can improve our academic skills by showing that we realy want to become better as a student and asking more questions to learn more knowledge towards what we want to know.

Anonymous said...

1. as teams we became more determing, i think we became more determing because in my group we messed up a few times and wanted to give up but we were determing to finish it even if it didn't really work.
2. I think we can improve our wind turbines by probably making sure the magnets are in place.
3. To improve our academic skills maybe we should pay attention and stay focoused on what we are doing because some people are easily side tracted and they tend to get distracted really fast.

Anonymous said...

we work good together because we did not think we was going to get all our work done on time but than we did done and my theam came in first.

we had to gule our wire down becaus it was sticking up.

I would pay more attention when i am in class.