This week, I did a LOT of coding! I also kept doing my swimming, violin, and taekwondo classes. I also went to nature school this week. I learned about the product rule in calculus, and I’m planning on making a video! The hockey games started (yaaaay!), and so my dad and I watched.
Upon arriving at toadstool ridge, everyone was excited about a spontaneous bout of shelter building! We did this for a while, and kept the natural building energy going through a team building activity that we did for most of the afternoon. Mink separated the group into three sub groups, and each group had a goal of creating a track, or course, which had to to roll a ball from the top of toadstool Ridge down to a specific point in the bottom. We learned a lot about surface tension, as our balls inevitably got stuck in the rough terrain. Harvesting a large sheets of curved bark off of fallen hemlocks proved to be instrumental in making our tracks work. All of the tracks crossed each-other at different times, which meant some of us had to build highways or jumps that went over each other’s tracks in order for all the groups to succeed. While we didn’t exactly finish this challenge, it was a great exercise in communication and teambuilding (sic), as well as working around each other and with each other to reach a common goal. Overall, it was a super fun day and we definitely made the most of the fantastic weather!
I created this form for my book club members, asking what they are like (ex. how old are you, what do you like to do, etc.) There are 26 questions! Funny, my other learner wrote about your questionnaire in Eleeza’s weekly reflection. She said there were a lot of questions. What are you planning to do with all of the information? Share with everyone? Or just get to know each other better? Yes, the reason I wanted to do this is to get to know each other in the book club a little bit better. And unfortunately, only the people who submitted their answers and I can view the results. Your nature school write up is superb Ethan. It was clear and descriptive. I could visualize all of the tracks overlapping and the teamwork and problem solving involved. Wow! Your writing has really progressed and improved a lot! Haha, actually, my nature school teacher wrote that and sent it to my dad in an email, and then he copied it and put it in the weekly reflection 🙂(I started watching a series of videos on YouTube called “Essence of calculus.” It’s basically about learning about calculus without all the “memorizing of formulas” and finding an intuitive way to learn calculus. This channel is called 3Blue1Brown, and I’ve known about this channel for a few years now (Great animations, by the way). I was looking up calculus on YouTube, and this popped up!)What are your main takeaways from this video? How are you going to incorporate the “essence of calculus” into your calculus learning? Well, I think the most intriguing thing is that it shows why things are true without all the formulas. For example, the derivative of x2 is 2x, but it shows how the idea of a small change in x (called dx in calculus) leads to 2x more area. My big takeaway is that if you learn something differently, it helps you get a better picture for the whole topic. I think I will be able to use these videos as a side tool for a better idea of what I am learning (in this case, calculus, and these days, I am learning about derivative properties).
Hello Ethan, This is such a great reflection! I feel a bit guilty not responding in full; this will be a much shorter response as I am working on writing up your and my other learner Winter Reflection summaries this weekend. I did note all of the incredible highlights of learning you had this last week. I created this form for my book club members, asking what they are like (ex. how old are you, what do you like to do, etc.) There are 26 questions! Funny, my other learner wrote about your questionnaire in Eleeza’s weekly reflection. She said there were a lot of questions. What are you planning to do with all of the information? Share with everyone? Or just get to know each other better? Here is me going to nature school. I made a marble track made of bark and wood, and used marbles that my teacher brought. I love this and am going to use in my outdoor ed in kindergarten. The kids love using the plastic marble run in the classroom. I have brought in all sorts of paper tubes for them to build with. Once the snow melts we can make natural ones too! Your nature school write up is superb Ethan. It was clear and descriptive. I could visualize all of the tracks overlapping and the teamwork and problem solving involved. Wow! Your writing has really progressed and improved a lot! This was one of my favorite sentences: Harvesting a large sheets of curved bark off of fallen hemlocks proved to be instrumental in making our tracks work. I started watching a series of videos on YouTube called “Essence of calculus.” It’s basically about learning about calculus without all the “memorizing of formulas” and finding an intuitive way to learn calculus. This channel is called 3Blue1Brown, and I’ve known about this channel for a few years now (Great animations, by the way). I was looking up calculus on YouTube, and this popped up!What are your main take aways from this video. How are you going to incorporate the “essence of calculus” into your calculus learning? What are some “intuitive” ways to learn calculus? I looked it up and there are books on the subject:
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