Plankton Race!

Well today we did the Plankton race and it was a lot hard than we expected, who would have thought making something sink very slowly would be so difficult.  We were given a handful of items...

 

sticky note, 2 toothpicks, poof ball, 2 rubber bands, straw, bubble wrap, and two other things I had no idea what they were called,

 

 

 

 

So at the beginning of doing this we were told the more simple the better, although me and my partner did not do this, we at first had trouble with actually getting it to not just float and when it finally did start to sink it sunk fast.  Our finally project came out to look like...

Which, yes we have no idea if it even resembles a plankton it did a "OK" job, our average time was 6.51 seconds, after trails and trials of redoing it.  And after watching other groups testing theirs we started to realize we should have really listened to the teacher when she said the more simple the better.  Watching groups get 20 or more seconds by not using anything but the paper itself, and then look at what ever ours was suppose to be, we both felt really dumb founded.  The most difficult part of this project I have to say was everything because at first it was to get to sink and then it was to keep from sinking to fast.  But in the end it was really not even hard me and my partner just made it harder than it really was.