Once again, I don't have much to say in this blog post, but there are one or two things to update since a few days ago. First, I added another activity to the "other activities" section. This one focuses on the use of ratios/proportions in cooking (particularly, when adapting a recipe). I worked on this over the summer, but then abandoned it for some reason. It took only a couple of hours for me to put it together into an acceptable format. That being said, I do have an idea for an improvement, so I will be posting an updated version probably tomorrow. This isn't very relevant, but one thing I find funny is how my writing style tends to somewhat mimic whatever I am reading at the time. I remember that, while making this worksheet, I was reading one of my English summer reading books, in which the author makes a lot of attempts at being funny/witty which, in my opinion, fall completely flat the majority of the time. Unfortunately, I found that the writing I had to do for this worksheet was filled with similar failed attempts at humor. I did my best to remove all of them as I was finishing/formatting it.
At this point, I have reached my winter break quota. That being said, since I feel like I kind of cheated with the second worksheet, I will still be working on my project for the remaining days of break.
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I just realized I've been forgetting to do my blogs this month, so I thought it would would be a good time to finally enter my first December blog post.
I just added one more worksheet to the "other activities" section. This one focuses on describing motion through kinematics equations. In it, students perform actions like dropping a ball from a fixed height, tossing a ball in the air, and rolling a ball across the ground. Then, they use kinematics to make approximations about things like how hard/far they threw the ball, and how quickly it accelerates. Finally, there are some extra (optional) kinematics practice problems at the end which I shamelessly stole from Ms. Wesley. I may make edits to this in the future. Particularly, I'm debating whether or not I should add a quick explanation of scalar and vector quantities, and I am also considering providing an explanation of how the equations are derived/why they work (I did provide a source at the end explaining this). My only worry is that some of these worksheets are getting a bit bogged down by lengthy explanations, so I'm trying things as brief as possibly while still making enough sense. This upcoming week, my goal is to create one more additional worksheet. I suppose I'll have to make another update in a few days, but I'm not sure how much I will be able to say at that point. Overall, I feel pretty good about the progress I'm making with my project (and I'm enjoying working on it). |
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