Let me just say first that my group failed miserably at this task. When our egg hit the floor there was Egg lacking out from all over. This however comes as no surprise to me because even before we went over the effective planing step it was obvious my group did not have it going on.
looking at the steps i can safely say that we did the first one, and this is only because it was pretty much laid out for us. What was wanted and expected of us was on the board from the start so there was not a lot of effort on our part that went in to the first step. i would also say that we did half of the third step. as each new idea came up (and there were quite a few) we looked at how that would impact the egg and what would need to be done to put it together ie: would we have to cut a lot of the straws, would we need to maneuver the straws into unnatural shapes. lastly we did half of the fourth step, which was we picked an idea (it was not the best one that we had) and we kind of gave rolls out as we went (there was no rolls given out before the materials were given out.) i guess everyone did the last step because we all put something together. however once we started putting our failing contraption together we did not stop to revise it and make it better we just went for it. not the smartest idea ever.
I would say that we bypassed the most important aspects of the steps we did take and the second step all together. at no point did talking about what we might know come up. i might have mentioned that i wish i payed better attention in physics now but that was as far as it went. i think this happened because we were so flustered by this seemingly impossible task in such a short amount of time.
so did we the outcome represent the amount of effective planing that went into this, yes! the contraption we made failed just as our planing did. i think that the part we missed was that of assessing skills and deciding on a plan to go with. we were still arguing about what we were going to do when we finally got the egg. at that point we just did what ever we felt like, there was no good planning in that chaotic phase either.
overall we were just not well organized.
I feel your pain! My group also fell victim, to a cracked egg and ineffective planning. I think the fact that we were all stressed under the short amount of time for the task, we weren't able to successfully accomplish the task. Better luck next time!
ReplyDeleteAfter reading about 5 blogs, I feel like alot of teams were arguing and disagreeing while our group was just chilling out, sort of agreeing with what we said. Its funny that you say the physics thing because i have a feeling this wasnt all about physics. So much depended on like at what angle your device/egg hit the floor and all. I dont think its predictable unless you use the fishing rod method our group used.
ReplyDeleteReuben right. It sounds much like our team. We didnt have a leader and just went with the first and seemingly smart idea, but when we got our egg, everything just got out of control. Everybody started screaming and pulling the egg in different directions. Jennifer, I'm sorry to hear your team didnt win. It's a good thing that now you have a chance to look back and analyze what went wrong. Hopefully, next time you and your teammates wont make the same mistakes...so as our team :)
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