Friday, February 10, 2012

Period 1 - Nifty Lifting Project Commentary

Tell me what you learned from this project.

15 comments:

Gianna F said...

This project was easy but tricky at the same time. My first idea seemed really easy on paper. When I started to build it, I found out that it wasnt so easy. My dad and I figured out and easier way to do this project. Everyone was doing the same type of simple machines, I wanted t be different. So from this project I learned that its good to be different. As well as things aren't always as easy as they seem

steven said...

This was a very fun project, and enjoyed working on it. I was very happy with my results. I learned that simple machines are not always simple. I had a problem with my machine at first when the car moved the mass only 4 and a half cm high so I had to move some pulleys to get it to work right.

Alexandra W. said...

Alexandra W.

I learned a lot from this project. First, I learned what types of simple machines there are and how I can use them to lift something. Secondly, I learned the longer an incline plane is the less force is needed to lift something. Finally, I learned how different types of pulleys can increase or decrease your actual mechanical advantage. This is what I leaned during the Nifty Lifting Project!!!

Sammy F said...

Doing this project, I learned the importance and helpfulness of simple machines. I had learned mostly about the inclined plane and pulley because those were the two machines I used for my project. The pulley's helped my car slide up the inclined plane easier than it had without pulleys. The inclined plane made the work easier by making the car have something to make it past the 5 centimeters.

Kate C said...

This project was fun, yet challenging. I learned how to use two simple machines properly. I learned that the more pullies that you use, the easier it will be.

ThomasB said...

The project overall was OK. It was very time comsuming and tricky to use the two simple machines. You would definitely need help by a parent to build your machine. A thing I would do differently is to see how other projects worked and try to base my project off others and add a few things here and there.

Anonymous said...

This project was very fun. I enjoyed biulding the simple machine. Something I would change is that I would attach the ramp to the peice of wood sticking up.

JackB said...

this project was really fun. it wasnt the easiest project to do but i liked it. overall the cost of this project was around 10 dollars. i think brendan and i did pretty good on it. i wish we could do another project

Dylan A said...

This project was a lot of fun. I likeed building the machine and testing how much the machine would lift. The only thing was that every ones project was almost the same thing. If i could do somthing diffrent i would try to make mine a little diffrent. all in all i thought this project was fun

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Anonymous said...

This project was a lot of fun. It was very creative and it had to have time put into it. My project had a lot of fixing. I had to fix it at least 5 times to get it perfect.

Ally B. said...

I learned a lot from this project. I learned a lot about the simple machines, especially the pulley and the incline plane. This project was hard but fun. It looked really easy on paper but once we started to build it, it was not that easy. We figured out a way to make it work with very little input force. We were happy with how it turned out.

JuanA said...

I thought that this project was gorin to be easy but it wasn't. I never knew that if the line was on an angle then the project wouldn't have worked. I learned that to build something complex you have to do it in a matter of days and not hours.

Danny Maclay said...

I found this project really fun but it was also tricky.I learned how to use simple machines and how helpful they are. I thought it was hard trying to figure out what i should build and the exact measurment but in the end it worked out good.

JuanA said...

I think me and stevens project did very well. It had three simple machines and had a high mechanical advantage. This project was very fun. I could of had a higher mechanical advantage if we extended the length of the inclined plane.