Responding+with+Wonderment+and+Awe

Throughout our life we wonder and awe at many things, from incredibly tall and well designed buildings, to the tiniest yet most magnificent creatures in the rainforest. However, through this page in my wiki, I will be exploring how I respond with wonderment and awe at chemistry in my general chemistry class.

October 11, 2010

In Unit 1 Part A Activity # 4 we were given the task of of designing an experiment to "accurately determine how dense salt water must be in order for a golf ball to float."

It took my group and I quite a bit of time to finally come to a conclusion as to how we would approach the task. We weren't sure how we would determine the asnwer, but after my group members and I collaborated to gather ideas, we finally came to a conclusion. It took us a long time to solve the equations that we had made for ourselves and we came across many obstacles, and things that we had done wrong. However, each obstacle that we came across made us more anxious to get the correct answer. Therefore, each time we did something right we would be enthusiastic about it. We were enjoying figuring out the answers!

When we finally came to our conclusion that determined how much salt needed to be added to the water to make the golf ball float we were overjoyed! we were incredibly excited that we had finally figured out the answer. Each step that had lead us closer to the figuring out the final answer made us just a little bit more excited, and when we finally found that answer we responded with wonderment and awe. We were awed at the fact that we were able to use our own knowledge and mathematical abilities to put together equations to solve the problem, and follow through with the answers to these problems by determining how much salt needed to be added to the water.

In the end we were succesful in making the golf ball float in our salt water!



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