The Four Activities

The first station my group was in, we had to read a story about brain plasticity, and how it can heal itself. They gave some examples of people who experienced this as well. We also had to try and figure out, on a worksheet, out of five universities, five people, five rewards, and five cars, who drove which car, where did they go to school, and how much was their reward. It was extremely difficult, and my group and I didn't finish. Some may have taken it home and worked on it for fun, but I didn't. I had no perseverance in this station, although some of my other group members did and almost got through it.

The second station was dealing with three people on each side trying to get across sides by not skipping, turning around, and they had to be facing the opposite way from when they started. I did something like this is my chemistry class, as well as the others, so we already knew how to do it. You could classify all of us as having insight before doing this because we obviously already knew the answer, and just had to recall it.

The third station was trying to balance ten nails on top of one nailhead. At first we had a heuristic way of thinking. We wanted to think in a more speedier way so we could beat the record time of four minutes that was set by the previous group. After the four minutes had passed, we realized that we couldn't beat it, but instead went for more balancing nails. We were able to end up balancing 26 nails. I'm pretty sure we had the best in the class.

The fourth station was trying to get a record to play using only like tape, a pencil, some candy, a needle, a record, and a piece of paper--I think. At first we had the right idea because we had a certain mental set already developed. We knew how to do it, but we had to get it to work. We ended up sticking the pencil through the hole in the record, and making the paper look like a funnel used as a speaker. Then we just stabbed the needle through the end of the small side of the paper to go on the record. As Joonho spun the pencil, the record spun around and around as the needle stayed in one spot, in contact with it. The paper acted like a speaker, which amplified the sound coming off of the record to the rest of the class. Apparently we had the best success with this activity.