Hi, welcome back to my blog. This blog is about my most recent Scimatics project. The driving question for this project was how are sides lengths of right angle triangles related to each other. In this project we had to work in groups to create a model of a Star Wars ship. In the ship it had to include a right angle triangle made out of lasers. We used mirrors to make the laser reflect into the triangle and illuminated it with dry ice. We presented our project in our winter exhibition. My group made the millennium Falcon. It was made out of cardboard and we spray painted it grey. In my group I worked with Annie and Josh to create our ship.
In this project we had to question and predict things. I got curious about the Pythagorean theorem. Because we kept learning more about it and how you can easily calculate the hypotenuse of a right angle triangle. Then when we had to make a ship with the triangle in it made it a lot more interesting.
While we were creating our model we kept improving on the apply and innovating competency. We had to work in our groups to make a good accurate model. It pushed us to work cooperatively to achieve the end goal of our model. We had to design our ship in a way that people could look into it and see the laser triangle. So we had to innovate a triangle that works with our design and also is a right triangle.
The last competency this project made us improve on is communicating and representing. We used this competency when we had to show how we used the Pythagorean theorem. We had to represent our ship and the laser triangle in a mathematical way that people will understand. To get people to understand our project better we made a poster for our ship. On the poster in includes the Pythagorean theorem and tells the audience to look for the right angle triangle.
