Reflection on Science Expedition "How and Why Things Move" - Friction
What did you like about the way it was organized? What didn't you like about it? Do you believe you learned more or less this way? What would you like to see changed for next time?
I think I learned a lot from this experience. It was a challenge to completely understand the topic but it was good how we were given some but just enough (divine...? Haha) intervention from Mr. Loken to enable us to gain our understanding. Ranging from being clueless to confusion to frustration to the final enlightening “Ahh!” moment, we learnt a lot; not just getting our heads around the main concepts, the vocabulary we had to understand, the formulae we needed to use, the math and calculations behind it all, but of the whole team-work process. Not that it was hard for us to work in a team (we work really well together, okay?! *gets defensive*), but it was a really benefiting experience just to be able to see how we are able to help each other.
I think we learned more this way because we had to completely immerse ourselves with everything that had to do with our topic and go through the whole process to reach the understanding which we have for our topic now. However, I know for a fact we found it sort of hard to explain it to the group about our topic because they hadn’t gone through the whole experience like we had. I think this also made it a little hard for us to understand the other groups’ topics. I also think the math/calculations were hard to explain to the class... I think the good thing about this kind of expedition is everyone becomes an expert at their topic but at the same time, it’s somewhat harder for us to reach the understanding of the other topics.
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