Thinking+flexibly

Thinking flexibly

Life is all about flexibility; if you are flexible, mentally and physically, you will survive. There is no such thing as the only way to a solution. "All road leads to Rome", this accurate in a sense that if one tried all the possibilities of obtaining a solution, the chance is, that one WILL get to the solution. Here is the minor scale of our "Thinking flexibly", I'd like to call it "All ways to rust a nail". Before we conducted our experiment of "cleaning rust with soda", it was essential for us to find the thing to be "rusted". My first thought was nails, and my partners agreed. The problem is we couldn't find equally rusted nails in the school, so we attempted to rust the nails ourselves. Trial 1- Kevin placed a piece of a immaculate nail in a beaker filled with water, and left it on the porch for a night. This was meant to find out how fast, or slow, it takes to rust a nail. The results were compellingslow Trial 2- Instead of using tap water, our group members decided to use dirtier water, maybe pond water. But all of us faIled to bring in pond water. Trial 3- we decided to consult Mrs. Knowles whether she had any idea on how to rust a nail faster, and she did. She suggested that we should drop the nails in salt water, and boil it. The nails did rust in the end, but the scale was not enough to go through our experimenting project. When we were about to give up this experiment and design a new one, Mrs. Knowles came to us with a bag of VERY rusted iron strips and told us to utilize these. The iron strips were helpful; they were rusty enough for the experiment, and to ensure that the "rust level" is equal, we cut off small quantities off the same long iron strip. All I can say was, we did it, we found the soda that cleans off the most rust. Even though we got off the wrong foot and used perfectly cleaned nails in the beginning, but we managed to run the experiment by being flexible.