He who fails to plan, plans to fail.

Planning.

        Planning is paramount to potential of success. In order to plan, you must have the big picture in mind. This means setting goals. So planning is essentially the step between chaos and order, it is a simple process. The way I plan (this is what I have found to be the most efficient for me) is I establish my end goal, what I want to accomplish.

Example Situation

Goal Time Estimation

        So, for sake of explanation, let's say I want to go skiing at cypress mountain for the weekend. My first step is to establish what I want to accomplish. From there, I will work backwards. My next task is to asses my room and decide approximately how long it will take me to clean it fully. From here I decide that it will take me two hours to clean my room.

Assesment
        A very important part of planning is stepping back and assesing your plan throughout the process. I now have spoken with my mother and realized that when she said "clean room" she meant tidy the entire room and then vacuum and clean out my dresser putting all the clothes I don't wear in a bag so that they can be donated. I originally decided that my room would take two hours but now that I have realized just how much work I will be doing, I must re-evaluate my original observation.

Revised Goal Time Estimation
        Now, looking at all the work I will be doing, I decide that in order to complete all these tasks, I will need three and a half hours. Two hours for tidying, one hour for clearing out my dresser, and a half hour to vacuum.

Scheduling
        Now that I have established what I need to accomplish, and how long those tasks will take, I need to fit it into my schedule. Today is Thursday, my mother has told me that I must have my room cleaned by the weekend (Friday night as I will be leaving on my ski trip Saturday morning). I have a friend's birthday party today after school today, from 4:30pm until 10:00pm. School ends at 2:45 and it takes me fifteen minutes to get home. leaving me only an hour and a half to clean today (Thursday). Tomorrow (Friday) I have school from 8:10 until 2:45pm. I have guitar practice from 4:00pm until 6:00pm, then go straight to basketball practice from 6:00pm until 10:00 and when I get home I will be far too tired to clean my room.

Reflection/Solution
        This is where the importance of planning comes in. By Friday, I will have completed one and a half hours of my cleaning but still have two hours of work to do. I only have one hour free after school and so I plan to clean from 3:00pm until 4:00pm. I still need to find time to clean for another hour in order to complete my cleaning on time. I decide to wake up an hour early in the morning and do the cleaning then, from 6:00am until 7:00am. If I had not planned my task, I would have failed. I would have not woken up and just tried cleaning my room as much as I could, and therefore would not have woken up early on Friday morning and would not have had enough time to finish cleaning.

Rocket Project Proposal

Rocket Project

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Purpose/Rationale:  Our Purpose is to create a rocket. We want to learn several different skills throughout this project. Firstly, and most prominently we would like to learn about rocket propulsion and controlling explosions to create enough force to launch a rocket higher than Esteban and Omeyer’s group. Secondly we would like to learn some video documentation and editing as we will be documenting our entire process: creation, planning, mistakes, tests, and finally, launches. We want to learn about rocket propulsion and aerodynamics and different forces centred around rocketry purely out of interest but the skills we will develop in the video making will be very useful skills. The world is becoming less and less attentive and videos are becoming more and more popular due to the limited attention required when watching a video. For these reasons, learning about cinematography and video production is very relevant in the advancing world.

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Connections: Human Ingenuity: Because of the contest nature of our project, we will be pushing both ourselves, and the other group to be creative, think of new ideas to “push the envelope” so to speak.

• Human Ingenuity – creative or artistic exploration, designing something new or re-designing something to improve it

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Audience: Our peers, youtube, possibly an elementary school.

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Estimated Timeline:  Week 1-3: Planning and Research, Acquiring Materials

     Week 3: Building of the rocket

        Week 4: Presentation

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Resources:

• Web
• Books
• Chemistry Teachers
• King of Random (Youtube, possible facetime?)
• Testing

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Process Log and Reflections:  We will record  it using a camera, kind of like a vlog for our blogs. We will upload short videos about our progress every time we make progress. At the end of the project, as the reflection, we will put together a video outlining what we learned and how we built our rocket.

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Peer Review:  For our peer reviews, we will be meeting up with Esteban and Omeyer at about half way through the project process. We will be discussing our progress, how much more work we have to do, and we will be projecting our probable presentation dates, thus creating a deadline which will keep us on track and focussed on the task.