Chemistry in My World
Video about SIM card. No voiceover, only music. Music and pictures are not mine.
My summary of the video: SIM cards are made from silicon. Silicon, gold, plastic, and a bit of phosphorus. The card is important because it lets you use the communication things on your phone, like calling and messages. Many people buy them. So, is silicon safe for the environment? Apparently, it is even less harmful to humans then plastic. So silicon is safer then plastic, which is good. Or as long as you recycle it properly. Giesecke & Devrient are the names of people who created the SIM cards. There are many types of SIM cards too. Full, mini, micro, nano, and embedded.
REFLECTION – Define. Discover. Deliver. Debrief.
What we had to do for our project is we had to pick something, like an object, and learn about it. Before that, we first got into a group of 3 of our choice, and started brainstorming some ideas. For my group, we chose the SIM Card. Our question was ‘How Does a phone’s SIM Card connect to chemistry and the world?’ We had to research about it, and put it into a final ‘product’, as we did a video. Then write a reflection.
Since we couldn’t just search up an answer for ‘How Does a phone’s SIM Card connect to chemistry and the world?’, we had to make smaller questions, and get answers for those. Here is a list of all the smaller questions we made.
What elements are used to make the sim card of a smartphone?
What kind of compound is it?
What affects do simcard have on water?
What can simcards do?
How many chemicals does a simcard contain
How many different types are there?
Are their materials in the simcard that can harm our environment?
Is there a better alternative material?
Who made the simcard?
<– What you see here is our list of questions, and our research we did for them.
For our final product, we made the notes more organized. We split up the questions so we could each focus on some, then added what we found on the sheet. At first we weren’t sure what to make as the final product, but I wanted to make a video, so I asked my group and they agreed. It was a bit of a risk making a video, because they do take time to make. I only know how to edit on iMovie, because its the only editor I ever used. I volunteered to edit the whole video, because though I wasn’t the #1 in the world for editing, I wasn’t bad. We spent a couple days getting good information down, so I had little time to edit. I still tried my best with the time I had, and the final result wasn’t bad 🙂 Because to make the video, you needed all the information.
Though if I had more time, it could probably be a bit better. One of the things we could’ve improve is maybe getting our research done faster. Another thing I forgot to mention is that for the video, we tried putting in our voices to narrate it, but when I tried to edit, the background noise was really loud. So I just didn’t add it in. Overall, it was nice working in a group project again, so we can all learn from each other, and help one another.
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Your chemistry inquiry was very well done. Your video answered every question I was wondering, even what SIM stands for in a SIM card. Great work using a platform in which you have some skills. Is this your YouTube channel? You have quite a following.