Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Group 20 - Maze Runners

We had to choose our project, today.  I was so excited that we got the maze!:)  I love being able to work on this with my friends.

3/9/16
Today my group and I worked on constructing ideas for our maze.  We also began to research our topic and started to fill out the sheet that our teacher has assigned to us.

3/10/16
Today, my group and i worked diligently on the Student handout 13.  We researched some experiments online.  We also decided that we were going to focus on the anchor affect for our experiment.   


3/11/16
Today my group and I continued to work on student handout 13 we answered most of the topic questions.  We also figured out how we were going to set the maze.  We decided to set up certain stations in the maze.  We would have the participates go through the maze and have them look for this missing landmark.  We want to see if a missing landmark would cause a lot of frustration for the participates which them causing them to take a longer time.  
These are the sites that we used:

Goodwin, J., Dr. (2012, February). A-mazing research. Retrieved March 10, 2016, from http://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/02/research.aspx

S. M. (2013). Tolman - Latent Learning | Simply Psychology. Retrieved March 10, 2016, from http://www.simplypsychology.org/tolman.html

Engber, D. (2011, November 16). A History of Rodent Mazes. Retrieved March 11, 2016, from http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/the_mouse_trap/2011/11/rat_mazes_and_mouse_mazes_a_history_.html


3/14/16
Today we finished and went over all the required handouts that we had.  We also finished little things that are important in our project such as ideas for the landmarks.  

3/15/16
Today we received feedback for student handout 13 and reviewed it as a group.  We also turned in handouts 16 and 17 and began work on handout 18.  

3/16/16
Today, my group and i constructed the maze.  We were able to finish the perimeter of the maze and then flip it so that it is standing up.  This construction took a lot a while but it worked out that we were able to get what we got done today.  We know have to construct the walls.  We have considered many designs for the maze but haven't quite decided what we wan the design to be.  


3/17/16 
Today my group and I planned what we wanted to do for our maze and our poster.  We tried to figure out a layout for the maze and we also looked up pictures to put on our poster.

3/18/16
Today my group and I finished hanging up the outside walls of the maze.  We also thought about what we wanted to do with the maze.  We decided that we wanted to have the exit and the entrance on the same side.  We also glittered the letters for our poster that way by Monday they will be dried.    

3/21/16
Today my group and I were able to get a start on our poster.  We were able to glue on the letters for the poster and start some of the writing for our poster.  We also planned the setup of how we want our poster to look.

3/22/16
Today we finished our poster and are almost done constructing the maze.

3/23/16
Today is parent night!  We have most of the maze ready, we just have to do last minute little things. 

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