During our 25minutes of planning we were throwing out ideas of how should the egg protector look like. Everyone contibuted and we arrived to the idea of braiding the straws and putting them around the egg. We all defenitely knew what our goal was and the deadlines. We came to the conclusion of what we have to do before the time ran out. We did not pick a leader, but I don't think that was our weakness since at such a short period of time we pretty much agrred on many ideas and the general communcation between us was very good.
We were discussing possible outcomes of our plan and we tried to make our project better. For example we thought of what if the egg falls and then bounces to one side and breaks itself. That is why we had to change its position a bit and use the tape wisely. We decided who is going to braid the straws, who is going to sketch the egg, who is going to let it go from the top of the table etc.
The 10 minutes of creating the project was very tense, especially the last couple of minutes. Everything had to be done fast and somehow we managed to get it done by the last second. Unfortunately, our egg did not succeed. However, I think that as a group, we were very successful and that if we had more time or a little more practice we would make it.
Though nobody's egg dropped without breaking, I think we learned a lot from this project and also had fun at the same time. At first, it did not seem like it would be too difficult but as we learned we only were able to use straws and tape, it seemed nearly impossible. My group had a similar idea with the braiding of the straws and our way obviously didn't work either. I agree that without the strict time constraints and more practice, we could have been more successful.
ReplyDeleteBy your description it seems you had a great groups since everybody through ideas and you did very good action planning.In our group two people didn't contribute to the efforts even when we urged them to through ideas.About the last minute-I think all the groups used the time to the edge because 10 minutes is really limited time when you have to handle with straws...
ReplyDeletein our group we did not have a leader neither. However, we tried to stick to the plan til the end. as you said the last minutes of the building part were very tense and everybody was trying to do something. We were helping each other to come up with something. Maybe if we had more time and more practice we might have come up with a better plan.
ReplyDeleteWe didnt pick a leader either. I noticed that taht's a thing with Americans, they either don't want to take on a leadership role or they are afraid to assume the responsibility.
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