Science:Erosion Prevention System

Reflection:

• What conflicts did your group have?

My group and I faced the challenge of choosing which idea to use for the final product. Especially because one if our group members wasn't there. That gave us the limitation to only 3 that made it even harder.  Everyone had such great ideas that it  became hard to choose. When it came to actually building it, we were really confused and ended up just improvising. In the end, even though it was not our official plan, it worked out well. Another problem we had was the amount of materials we had. We were not sure whether the village would be protected or not because we felt like we didn't have enough materials. 

• How did you overcome the conflicts?

We tried our best to combine all of our plans to create one plan that included a little bit of everyone's design. We just took an interesting section that we thought would help our village be safe from the strong water from each person's plan and created one plan. Though on the spot, we had to improvise quite a bit.

• How did you improvise?

We were very scared that our plan wouldn't work out, even though we combined our different ideas.So,we looked around and observed other people's ideas and tried to use that to shape our plan.We made some modifications and well, it turned out okay. I think we did well and improvising helped it to work out better, even though it was not our original plan.

• How can science help people with erosion and landslides?

Science can help us with erosion and landslides because if scientists can predict when something like a landslide is going to happen,we can be told and then we are aware of what's going to happen. Knowing that, we can create protection like walls, dams and put nets on a mountain to block the rocks from hitting us. Then, we know where to build our houses so it is protected and safe from the rocks or the pieces of land that fall off. It would be very dangerous if someone plants their house near a mountain that has a high risk of land slipping of leading to a landslide. Even though it takes years for it to occur, we need to know when danger is heading our way. Science can also help us to learn new things like this and then we can know more about our environment. If we know and study this information, we can learn about many other natural events and compare in with them. That can also help us have a deeper understanding of what we are learning. Things like this are natural and we can try to stop them but, most of the times we can't, unfortunately.