Starting in Chemistry

At the beginning of the week we started with an activity that made us take different things and find other things that had something in common. Being the kind of person that likes to know what is the right answer, this activity twisted my brain After rearranging and conversing with my classmates we realized that there was no right answer. The point of the activity was for us all to reach a mutual agreement.Working as a team the the class reached consensus. This taught us that sometimes there will be no right.

Next, as we continued to get accustomed to the classroom we had another activity and racked our brains. A cube with 6 sides was on the floor and and we had to figure out what the side faced down to the ground enclosed. First, we observed the cube. My group noticed that the cube was like a dye. On a dye the opposite sides add up to seven so since one was on the top we decided that the bottom number was six. Sadly, not all the groups agreed on our observation. Some groups assumed that the cube had no bottom. After we talked about it for a little all the groups were ok with assuming it had no bottom. After reaching consensus, the class went back to the cube to see if our observations were correct. When the cube was flipped over, it had no bottom. This activity shows that some things do have a right answer but the more important thing is how we reached the answer and the preparation we did. 

Later in the week, Mr. Abud informed us of the tweet 180 project. This project involves tweeting everyday something about class. That way we will have all these tweets about things that we have done in class. This also helps us to reflect on what we learned in class that day when we tweet about it.