PROJECT BLOG 10/6/17

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This week in class, we had to finish our Periodic Table Project. Our finished periodic table of chips is shown above. We have organized it by type of chips and by flavor.the atomic number is like usual, going left to right and increasing going across is our flavors, dill pickle, original, spicy, limon, ranch, cheese, and barbecue. The dill pickle is at the top, being in pringles and lays where the helium and hydrogen would be on a normal periodic table. We have some blank spots where those chips were nonexistent or unavailable to us, but we left those area alone, hoping they would eventually be filled. The key at the top explains around our table, like a tour guide in a busy amusement park.

The atomic number is the normal way, increasing and this is the chip number on our periodic table. The element image is the chip bag (or part of it). The atomic mass is the number of calories in the bag of chips plus the atomic number. We had some difficulty with that, but soon we figured it out.

Backward-looking

What problems did you encounter while you were working on this piece? How did you solve them?

In this piece, we had some problems at the beginning by just figuring out what to do. Andrew posted the chips idea, but Nic didn’t like it. We couldn’t think of anything else, so Brandon started showing us the ways it could be good. Nic finally agreed, and we went on from there. Second, we couldn’t find out what to do about the atomic mass. Nic thought that Ms. Garcia wanted it to be in order, numerical order, and he said that my idea for calories + atomic number wouldn’t work. I went over to Ms. Garcia to ask, and it turned that Nic has misheard her and that we would have a working idea. Overall, we didn’t have any arguments about what to do or how to do it, so that wasn’t a problem for us.

Inward looking

Have you changed any ideas you used to have on this subject?

No. We at first just had these original ideas, but then Nic said that the idea for the atomic mass wouldn’t work, so we were prepared to change the ideas. But when we couldn't find anything else, we talked to Ms. Garcia to find that our ideas were perfectly fine and that we didn’t need to change them. But when we had to cut out the printed chips, some of the bags were too big to fit the squares they were supposed to be in. So we had to cut them down a little.

Outward looking

What grade would you give it? Why?

I would give our work an A- because we met all of the requirements, but our lines and glued items were not as neat as they could have been. I think we deserve an A- since we worked hard, we completed it on time, and we met all of the components, we were just a little messy.

Forward looking

What would you change if you had a chance to do this piece over again?

I would maybe be a little bit neater with the gluing and the drawing of the lines, but I think that we did a good job and that we have a little bit to improve upon.