Sep 25 Exit Slip

 The two main things we did today were matching color swatches to natural things and various ways of rope making. For the color swatch activity, I picked a bright orange and purple color. At first, I thought orange was going to be the easy color, as I would just match to one of the fruits or dried out leaves. However, none of them actually had the bright orange color. They had a more tan, brownish orange. The only thing that matched my orange were the orange bags covering the sunflowers but obviously they are not natural... As for purple, I came across some a magenta-colored flower which is actually called "Red Clover" even though it does not really look red to me at all. Thus, I kept looking and stumbled upon a purple cascading flower that almost matched my purple swatch completely. Apparently, it is called "Tufted Vetch). Since I thought purple was such a rare color, I thought finding this flower was like finding a needle in a haystack but google search also says it is a rather common flower haha...




As for the rope making activity, I did manage to craft a few ropes out of grass. However, I could not resist the temptation in testing its strength and pulled on it too early or gave it a karate chop in the middle. The internal structure did turn out way better than I expected for grass though they still pale in comparison to some of the others who could use them to hang on trees or long enough to jump rope. Maybe I will try making rope again to use to demonstrate pulleys and tension in physics. 



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