The EPro8 Challenge

 In Te Ngahere we have been doing EPro8 challenges while the year 7&8’s were at tech. I learnt about 2 types of energy one is kinetic energy and the other one is potential energy. kinetic energy is when something doesn’t stay still it moves potential energy is when something stays still. We had to make a device that could shoot something at least 3 metres high before hitting the ground. We do EPro8 challenges because it makes people collaborate and work together. My group worked good together this went well because we communicated and listened to each other's ideas instead of getting angry. Next time instead of voting for the best idea we could combine all the ideas together. We also need to work on reading the success criteria properly. Do you read the instructions everytime?

Direction Failure

In Te Ngahere we did a test about if we can follow directions, Whaea Becks said that we were doing a reading test, she gave everyone a piece of paper with the test on it and told everyone not to flip it over until she said. We had 4 minutes to do the test. The point of the test was to see if we could follow instructions. The first instruction was read everything carefully. I thought that I could read the instructions while doing them all carefully. When I got to the 23rd instruction it said now that you have read all the instructions only do instruction 1 and 2 and then draw on the back of your paper. I felt annoyed because I didn’t read the first instruction properly, instead I started doing all of the questions. If this was a Success Criteria we would all fail. In the future I will know read things carefully. Do you think that you could do this test?