For this Step It Up activity, I did a science experiment on submarines. I followed a video of someone teaching this experiment. At the end, I found out that video had not been very clear on how to make it work. The submarine has to be balanced with air and water, or else it would be very hard to squeeze, especially for me. I eventually quite enjoyed this activty when it was sucessful, and found it pretty fun exploring and testing. I made a slide sequence and a video to share my work.
How would you make the setting more Jedi – like?
Kia Ora Isa,
This is Zana from the SLJ commenting team, I am loving all your posts this summer.
What an interesting step up from your submarine design activity. I like that this activity focuses on a more scientific activity. Do you enjoy learning about science at school?
You did another awesome job with this activity and I was glad to hear you used some problem solving skills by figuring out the experiment even after finding the video confusing. I am also glad that you included a video as it was great to be able to see your experiment in action.
You also used some great scientific language and made some awesome observations as you explained how your sub floated.
I wonder how you might step this activity up further, do you think this experiment could be done on a larger scale?
Keep up the great work,
Zana Yates
Kia Ora Zana,
Yes, I do enjoy learning about science at school.
I think it can be done in class with a larger scale. I wish we had this experiment in school. My class will probably love it.
How big of a scale are you thinking of?
From Isa
Hi Isa,
I had a look back at some of your posts and decided that this one was a good example of an SLJ outstanding post! This means you will receive a bonus point!
I was thinking human sized scale! I was wondering if you could do this with a person but I suppose that would just be a submarine!
-Zana
Hello Zana,
Thank you for your reply and thank you for marking it outstanding.
If it was human size, you will need a bottle the size of a swimming pool, and a giant or a humongous mechanic robot or some sort of a device to squeeze the bottle to have this experiment to work. An alternative is to build a bottle-looking building, have a submarine that travel up and down, and it would be like a fun fair. However, it would not have the concept of this science experiment. Which do you prefer?
From Isa
I love that idea of it being a ride at a fair, it could also be a training exercise for soldiers as I know they do a lot of extreme scenario trainings! Would you try it if it was a ride?
I like how you showed us your submarine trick. but maybe add some more words.it was pretty funny how you said that you had jedi powers. good job.
Very cool
I’d like for you to improve your words cause sometimes we could repeat lines.
Maybe add a big space to every paragraph (I think paragraphs are like 3 or more sentences).
I love it how you use jet I power bros the new Darth Vader it is so cool I’m going to use
this as a prank
Whoa!!! Thats amazing!! But really complicated. It looked so cool and the way it levitated in the water up and down. This is really funny, keep up the comedy:). And even though you found the video confusing you still did it successfully. Something I would want to know is, how long did it take? There is nothing you have to improve on. It’s really good!! MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU!!!
Hi! This was absolutely amazing! Way better than what I would’ve done. Anyway how did you do this when the video was unclear? And how long did it take? Now I know how the force works :D. well there’s nothing else to say. Bye! May the force be with you.
Hello isa.
this is an awesome blog!
This shows the info and a great video, I will try doing this jedi force.
Keep it up
Hi Isa I love that you put in a video so that we could see what happens. It looks really good you had a good slide show and the video was really clear. I think you could add how you felt. Also how long did it take to make
thanks for letting me read your blog.