I chose my inquiry project to be about the optical illusions since I was very interested how optical illusions work and things. At first I wanted to create an illusion myself to see how it works, but it wasn’t good enough so I chose my question as ‘Do optical illusions work through the eyes or the brains?’ First of all, I had to come up with an experiment that could prove something about my question. It took me quite a long time to figure out a way for the experiment.

My experiment:

1. chose 5 optical illusions

2. Show each of them to the audience twice

3. the first time without telling what will happen and on the second time, tell the audience what will happen.

4. My hypotenuse was that the first time they see the illusions, they may see something different than what it was meant to be, which means that the illusions that we see happens because we usually read the instructions before looking at the illusions.

The result of the beginning 3 people was not that satisfying because they all got the illusions almost perfectly. However, after that, I noticed that I accidentally left the instructions open. This is why I will exclude them from my result since there are chances that they may have seen the instruction. I have finished collecting all the datas from the participants except for Kayla. She can’t participate since she is sick. I am starting my presentation now. I hope that I could finish the powerpoint presentation by tomorrow.

I think even if my experiment was a failure  I have learned lots of things from this experiment such as being comfortable with asking people to participate in my experiment. I think this was the most interesting inquiry project yet ^^

This is the site for my How-To video

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I have decided that I would present this inquiry project about the space travel in a form of a documentary with me as a narrator, and remixed documentaries as the background. I almost finished the remixing documentary part. I just need to record my voice now. I think this project was a fun one.

I need to start taking videos from documentaries, by myself, and by making them. I hope that I will be able to finish the filming by next monday, so that I can start editing, and making my own documentary. I am actually pretty sure that I have learned lots of things in this project already. However, I think in this inquiry project, I will be spending more time with the presentation.

I continued doing the second inquiry project. I have already finished the research by watching documentaries from youtube and also looking up some informations on google. I plan to make a documentary about the space traveling. since i have 10 more days, I hope I can finish it by the due date.

Today, I kept watching the documentaries about the space traveling in order to find out what the dangers and difficulties of space traveling are. I found out lots of things in the youtube videos. As I began learning more and more things, I began to realize that what I knew was not all. Before I started this project, I felt like it was going to be too easy to finish since I know lots of difficulties in space like food problem and space.However, as I watched the videos, I found out that radiations, small pebbles in the space could also threaten the astronauts in the space. I am sure this project is going to be an interesting one ^^

we started a new inquiry project today. I decided to do a project about space travel. I will research about the things about the problems of space traveling, and also see if my new way of moving a space ship using magnet would work or not. I look forward to it.

Today, we didn’t have lots of time. Aaron said that he would to the presentation and Lief said that he would send the pictures at home. I think we couldn’t really reach to the point where we wanted to. I think it might already have decided when we didn’t bring our robots to the school as we planned to. I hope that my next inquiry project would be much more satisfying. I don’t feel like smiling today.