CUP INSULATOR

The first picture, me and my partner made this cup insulator. We decided to make the outside felt (purple because we thought felt was really warm and this project was judged by the look too. So we decided to use purple felt. You might not be able to see but inside the purple felt there is a layer of bubble wrap. Than under that there is a layer of cotton. We used velcro to stick the end on the other end. The cap i made out of wood onto of that a layer of  foil, and the handle of the cap is made out of cotton.

PENGUIN DWELLING

The second picture is about our penguin project! This project we did it as a table group. We knew that mylar foil is the best to reflect the light so we put a layer of mylar foil on top and inside that there was a layer of foil to protect the ice cube/ penguin more. We made the door out of mylar foil too. But our first try was a fail we lost so much mass of the ice cube/penguin. We thought that it was because of the hot glue gun on the top of the dwelling and when the light hits the top of the dwelling the glue gun lightly melted. So we over layered the hot glue gun and put another layer of mylar on top of the dwelling to cover the glue gun. Guess what we actually had to close up the door more because we noticed the light can go through the door. So we definitely closed it up more than before. Finally the day of the second testing day came. We  did improve about 2 grams. Which isn’t that good or either bad. For our penguin dwelling if we did it again I hope that our group collaborates better because some people mostly did the work when some people were off track.

STORY BOARD

The third picture is our story board. We basically add something to the board every time we do an experiment. Like for example we had to record the stuff about our penguin dwelling project and we had to sketch it too. But next time, if we did it again i hope we can make it neater and definitely colourful.I liked how we worked all together on the story board.

I really like how me and my partner designed our cup insulator by thinking of the look and how warm it is. I hope our group can collaborate more for the penguin dwelling. To make a better dwelling. I wish i can put more layers on the cup insulator and make it more warm.

 Overall I think that me and my partner did a good job on collaborating together and making a cranky contraption idea. We also did well i making the cranky contraption look creative.

One thing we need to work on is to find something better to crank. Because we made our crank the last second and we were hurrying to finish it. Plus we have to make the crank more up and done. Instead of just moving a cm.

One concern with my cranky contraption is that the faces o the pipe cleaner is too flappy because its just paper. So next i will put cardboard under it to stable the flappy paper.