First science methods 2 post! week 2 class

    💥Welcome back!💥

    After a short break from science methods 1, we are back on the blog for science methods 2! 

This week we did a lot of cool things and I learned A LOT. 

    ❤One big question that was accumulating in lab this week was how can we make a fair race between one person who is slower and one person who is faster. This took a lot of thinking, experimenting, trial and error, and much more. My table group and I discussed a lot about what different types of experiments we thought we needed to do in order to figure this out. We started off kind of confused and not sure of what to do. We eventually got some advice on how to move forward, we decided that we were going to time how long it took for me and one other group member to walk forwards and backwards about 8 meters. In our model that we created, we included a racecourse, different moving speeds for racers, and a race based on distance (not time). We did not include the age of the racers, actual racing speed, and speeding up or slowing down. 

    ❤After this we fully conducted the experiment we were able to find out a race, for our group, where the first and last person would end at the same time. We then conducted this experiment with another group but kind of failed since we were moving in different ways. We don't have any pictures from this lab sadly. 

    ☺On Thursday, I also learned a lot during lecture! I learned about measuring and describing motion, making an exciting race, how to calculate difference of distance/ time, measuring motion, measuring speed, distance, and time, and representing patterns in motion. 

    ☺One thing that stood out to me is how to measure motion. We did a few examples when we were in lecture which was super helpful because I am not very good at math but I also needed a refresher on how to calculate speed. Which is important for this unit. After the few examples that we were given in class, I feel pretty confident now on how to calculate speed. 

    👽From the textbook, I learned about how to measure motion, like in the lecture, and how to translate what we learn and how we learn to our students and to ourselves. 

    👽What was most helpful for me was going over velocity versus speed. What also helped was the section with the purple box that explains the difference between speed and velocity. It also helped by explaining how the two work. 

    👽I would like to get more information on is how to describe position. I want to know how to be more specific with distance, direction, and position. 

    👽Overall, I do not have any questions, comments, or concerns. I think I have a pretty good understanding of the last week we have had here in science!