Review for the dreaded midterms started today which made me feel both good and bad. I felt good because the reviews will help me do better on the midterm, but I felt bad because now I know how close the midterms really are! Today we studied Unit 1 which I was not here for so I will not be graded on it, but it was still interesting to learn some of what was in the unit. I learned that a control group is the group you do nothing to and that you can only have an accurate experiment if you change one thing at a time.
Tuesday or January 6, 2015 A.D.:
Review happened today again, but this time it was more fun than yesterday. We partnered up to solve 6 questions together. The 2 groups who got them all right in the shortest amount of time got to participate in a Minute-to-win-it match. In the first match you had to fan a tissue paper fish into a basket. In the second match you had to move 10 beans from one part of the room to a cup on the other side. In the third match all of us could participate and we had to eat a vanilla wafer balanced on our Frontalis with only our head and facial muscles.
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| Chad won with 00:00:23.00 |
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| John Steward came closest to winning with 8 beans at the end of the minute. |
Wednesday or January 7, 2015 A.D.:
Mrs.Giacomelli reviewed Unit 3 with us by splitting us into two teams. A person on each team was asked a question per round. Every time a person gets a question right it's team gets one point. Every time a team got three points a players on that team got to try a minute to win it game. On our team Delaney got to do it and she had to keep 3 balloons from falling down. She was not successful so our team did not get an additional 2 points. The other team got 3 points that same round and also played a minute to win it game. In this game Will Golder strapped a Yo-Yo to his back and had to demolish several mini towers of soda cans and cups. He went berserk, almost tore down the school, and broke the outside of the Yo-Yo off.
Thursday or January 8, 2015 A.D.:
Today we had another day of review and this time on Unit 4. We were put in groups of 3 and were given a sheet of paper with a grid 5 by 5. I was put with J.S. and Emma J. The first 4 columns of the grid were for 20 questions of 5 points each. The last column was element trivia and was 5 points altogether. The last question (not in the grid) was a question where we had to wager 0-5 points. After answering all questions, we wagered 3 points and got it right by reciting the first ten elements by atomic number and thus winning candy and the competition with 105 points. Yippee!
Friday or January 9, 2015 A.D.:
Today we played the same game as yesterday just with new groups and it was on Units 5&6. The game was really exciting and I really enjoyed it. My group did not do well, but it was fun and that is what matters. I really hope that this review will help reduce unnecessary stress because I believe I can do well on it, I just can't get that into my head.
Summary: This week provided the opportunity to have fun as well as to learn, because I realized how much material I forget over such a short amount of time. In the future I will try to both retain more information and to remember to study everything, not just the material I know enough to remember to study. In other words, study everything instead of studying what you know you don't know because there is probably something you are forgetting that you know just as badly as the things you know you don't know. Sorry that probably didn't make much sense (but it makes sense to me :)).
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