Tuesday, February 22, 2011
"An Eggs-cellent Way to Plan"
Our goal in the class activity on February 17th was to develop a plan that would help us effectively complete the task. We were given 25 minutes to think of plan which would enable us to protect an egg from any cracks and breakages, and 10 minutes to finish the task using one egg, nine straws and a paper tape. Our group went through all the steps of the planning process. Our planning included two ways of constructing a protective case for an egg. The first idea was to cut the straws into many pieces and to connect them using scotch tape to build a square basket. The second plan was to weave a basket by sticking the straw ends together. We chose the second plan which helped us to protect the egg while showing 50 percent of the egg. The basket had a strong base and sides that would prevent the egg from slipping out of the basket. Our team`s performance was good but it could be better if everyone in the group worked like one and were optimistic. In my opinion, our plan was excellent and the protective basket for an egg was also well planned. I think we had a good chance of winning the contest if only the egg was thrown gently, not smashed into the trash can.
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lol was it really "smashed"??? your group had an impressive design tho. good work!!! =)
ReplyDeleteDinara, even though our egg did nor survived, I think we did our best, considering the fact that some people in our group were very quit, and not participated in our discussions during the planning process. I strongly believe that some of them were ignorant to everything of what we were trying to come up with. Also, I think that the next time it is better to sit on a circle shape of a table, so this way each member could see reactions, and listen to everyones opinion. May be this way more people would be involved, and won't say that we did not hear their ideas.
ReplyDeleteI think that if we were given more time to actually make the design, and less time planning, we all would have gotten better designs. It was hard to visualize what we had to make because we didn't know the measurements.
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