Imran Shah
2007-2008 Group 4; Team 5
Sonal Paul
Amina Haleem
Ashley Wall
Angelica Eng
Malcolm Clyburn
Natneal Aklile
Ashley Marston

Journal #1: General Meeting [Tuesday, October 30th; 2:30pm-3:30pm]
In the first general meeting, we got to know everyone in our group and exchanged contact information. This was our priority because it is easier to work with people that you know, and you begin to feel more comfortable. The exchange of contact information will allow us to communicate outside of just the meetings. This is important in producing an excellent project because more productive time spent, makes for a better product.
Towards the latter half of the meeting, we discussed potential project ideas in our group. Since our group is composed of both, students from Biology, and Physics, it is essential to include aspects of both subjects. The first idea that was thrown out had to do with observing growth of frogs, and comparing their diets to the height, and velocities of their jumps. After thorough discussion, we dropped the idea due to its many complexities, and margin of error. Also, we didn’t feel like chasing around a bunch of frogs. We couldn’t do this anyway because we only have seven hours to perform the experiment. With about 15 minutes left, we unanimously decided to do an experiment in which we would observe the food that a few people eat, and watch how that affects the time in which they are able to run a specified distance, a certain amount of time after eating. The Biology aspect would be the effects of the food on the runner, and the Physics students can observe the velocities, and acceleration differences of the runners, from before and after they run.
Since we met for the first time, and the meeting was not very long, we have not been able to work out all of the details yet, but hopefully will have that done with in the next few meetings.

Journal #2: First Group Meeting [Tuesday, October 30th; 2:30pm-4:00pm]
This was our first exclusive group meeting. During this meeting, the groups were supposed to finalize a project idea, from the brainstorm list that each group member was supposed to do for homework. As mentioned before, our group had decided our topic in the first general meeting. Since we had this done, we decided to plan out how we were going to do the experiment. Since our sub-groups had been pre-selected, all we had to do was assign each sub-group a duty, and each sub- group decided what aspect of the investigation they were going to focus on for their respective subject areas. Our group is made up of 8 people total, so we have been divided into 3 sub-groups, 2 for physics and 1 for biology. The biology students decided to focus on the actual affect of the food. My sub-group (1 of the physics) is focusing on finding the average velocities and accelerations. The other physics sub-group will focus on the change in time as the food digests.

Journal #3: Second Group Meeting [Tuesday, November 13th; 2:30pm-3:30pm]
This was 2 weeks after our last meeting, which gave us enough time to plan the details of the investigation. Since most of the tasks that we were supposed to complete during the course of this meeting, we had done in the previous meeting, we decided to meet in our sub-groups and get some of the homework done. In my sub-group, we planned out what we were going to do with the raw data in order to find the necessary information to complete our part of the project. Since our investigation was not as complex as others, this took about the majority of the meeting. We then decided that we would not need another planning period, and that we could meet after the investigation was performed to put the final presentation together.

Journal #4: Experiment Day [Monday, December 3rd; 7:30am-2:30pm]
Today was the day that was set aside for each group to go out and perform their experiments. Everything went well. It was cold, but we got our 4 trials done. We then worked on the presentation part for the remainder of the day (a few hours). We have decided to meet as a group to do the presentation preparation in a few days. Hopefully by then everyone should have enough stuff to get most of it done, and then we can meet once more to finish up.

Journal #5: Preparation Day 1 [Tuesday, December 13th; 2:30pm-4:00pm]
We spent 1.5 hrs after school as a group putting the finishing touches on our lab write-ups. We worked in our sub-groups, finalizing and improving upon our purposes, hypothesis, and making sure our calculations [for average velocity and acceleration] were correct, and that our graphs matched our data. We are going to post everything on the board tomorrow and finally be done!

Journal #6: Final Preparation Day [2] [Wednesday, December 14th; 2:30pm-4:30pm]
We have completed our group 4 requirement! Today we printed everything out all the final pieces of our incredible presentation, and posted them onto the project board. Since our group had 3 sub-groups; 2 for physics and 1 for biology; we split the board into thirds. Biology was in the middle, while one of each physics group was on either side. We coordinated each color to its assigned subject; [Blue- Biology & Black-Physics]. Each sub-group posted their purpose, hypothesis, pictures and data, and a brief conclusion; which explained the outcome of the lab, and addresses whether we were successful in our purpose, and correct in our hypothesis.