Trebuchet Exhibition
1) This is the Trebuchet Exhibition Reflection
3) Trebuchet: A swing thing. We have built trebuchets over the course of October and half of November, building, designing, testing, and refining. We brought in our own materials, and used resources around us, once we had a nice piece, we put them to the test. We did this project to demonstrate our mastery of projectile motion, after choosing a specific type from a specific era, we could analyze the projectile motion of the launch item and predict approximate and max range.
4a.a) We have wondered how to throw an item as far as possible with a counterweight trebuchet, and a few key elements are: energy, velocity, acceleration, and projectile protection. With energy, you must get gravity to pull down on the counterweight, the counterweight weight is not as important as the density- kinetic energy of the counterweight will be transferred into the arm and to the projectile, potential energy of the base must remain for zero wobble.
4a.b) For velocity and acceleration, they must be well used not on the projectile, but more to the counterweight dropping. The arm accelerates ratioed to the mass and density of the counterweight, so it again must be a steady mass and density.
4a.c) Last the projectile motion, projectile motion must be set on the item with the other 3 important aspects. The projectile motion matters on how fast the arm velocity and acceleration are. It also matters of what energy is transferred, if the base wobbles, the potential energy will transfer into the item and slow it.
4b.a) These 4 21st century skills; collaboration, communication, creativity, and critical thinking can be used to describe what it means to be a community of learners in the trebuchet project. All are important and can contribute to the project, maybe one person has one, and another has another. In individual projects, the one person can use all the skills in their own mindset and come up with a product, in group projects, everyone can focus on one skill and put them together.
4b.b) Collaboration helps you and your team with planning and deciding, which is a helpful tool for projects. Communication matters as well so you can make sure you talk well among others and share out ideas, I being an introvert can make it difficult. Creativity also matters to make sure you have a well thought out product and that it follows the rubric, but of course has new and thoughtful ideas. Also, critical thinking is just as important since it has to do with how you process ideas and find possible consequences.
4c) The biggest challenge I myself had in this project was creativity, as I hadn’t shared any ideas, and I was put rather along with the process. It was also partly because I can’t communicate well, and I wasn’t able to share out easily, as sometimes you must interrupt to let a thought out.
4d) I had no real trouble with critical thinking for sure, I could realize what could go wrong. I also was good at constructing the prototype and final product, I do work better individually, but I was able to use some 21st century skills and figure the best ways to contribute.
3) Trebuchet: A swing thing. We have built trebuchets over the course of October and half of November, building, designing, testing, and refining. We brought in our own materials, and used resources around us, once we had a nice piece, we put them to the test. We did this project to demonstrate our mastery of projectile motion, after choosing a specific type from a specific era, we could analyze the projectile motion of the launch item and predict approximate and max range.
4a.a) We have wondered how to throw an item as far as possible with a counterweight trebuchet, and a few key elements are: energy, velocity, acceleration, and projectile protection. With energy, you must get gravity to pull down on the counterweight, the counterweight weight is not as important as the density- kinetic energy of the counterweight will be transferred into the arm and to the projectile, potential energy of the base must remain for zero wobble.
4a.b) For velocity and acceleration, they must be well used not on the projectile, but more to the counterweight dropping. The arm accelerates ratioed to the mass and density of the counterweight, so it again must be a steady mass and density.
4a.c) Last the projectile motion, projectile motion must be set on the item with the other 3 important aspects. The projectile motion matters on how fast the arm velocity and acceleration are. It also matters of what energy is transferred, if the base wobbles, the potential energy will transfer into the item and slow it.
4b.a) These 4 21st century skills; collaboration, communication, creativity, and critical thinking can be used to describe what it means to be a community of learners in the trebuchet project. All are important and can contribute to the project, maybe one person has one, and another has another. In individual projects, the one person can use all the skills in their own mindset and come up with a product, in group projects, everyone can focus on one skill and put them together.
4b.b) Collaboration helps you and your team with planning and deciding, which is a helpful tool for projects. Communication matters as well so you can make sure you talk well among others and share out ideas, I being an introvert can make it difficult. Creativity also matters to make sure you have a well thought out product and that it follows the rubric, but of course has new and thoughtful ideas. Also, critical thinking is just as important since it has to do with how you process ideas and find possible consequences.
4c) The biggest challenge I myself had in this project was creativity, as I hadn’t shared any ideas, and I was put rather along with the process. It was also partly because I can’t communicate well, and I wasn’t able to share out easily, as sometimes you must interrupt to let a thought out.
4d) I had no real trouble with critical thinking for sure, I could realize what could go wrong. I also was good at constructing the prototype and final product, I do work better individually, but I was able to use some 21st century skills and figure the best ways to contribute.
Delayed 2) A video of ours in action...