In science we are studying all about pollution and the importance of clean water all around the world. So, we made groups and each group is supposed to design a filter that can make the water a lot cleaner. Everyone in the class started off with trying out three different materials that can filter the […]
Category: 5th Grade
A Long Walk To Water
In class, my teacher is reading a book to us called a Long Walk To Water. The theme of this book to me is survival. Survival can include so many different things. For example, not having food and having to hunt for it also he had to search places for food. Also, it could mean […]
Immigration Project Part Three
Today we actually started filming. We didn’t have many problems at all. We started by taking pictures of the characters walking in and then they sat down on the bench. The next thing that happens is the panels come in. We used pictures related to the letter and printed them out and used Popsicle sticks […]
Immigration Project Part Two
The second day we worked on filming it was very difficult. While doing it we had realized that there was no movement and it is a stop motion movie. So we had to delete all the photos and start over. Also, we had to add skewers to the back of the characters so they could walk […]
Immigration Project Part One
Today was a learning experience for my group because we had lots of struggles. One of biggest struggles was finding a place to put the camera. Each spot we put it at had something wrong with it. Finally, after long discussions we figured out that we needed paper on each side of the pizza box […]
Rube Goldberg Project Day Six
Learning to work as a group was one of the biggest struggles for my group. We all had different visions of how the Rube Goldberg would go. It made me wonder how we should compromise. We came to an agreement that we should combine all of our ideas together, and that’s how we came up […]
Rube Goldberg Project Day Five
Now that we have finished the actual Rube Goldberg we have to do the iMovie. It was hard to do the iMovie because we had 101 tries and needed to pick out only a few fails to put in our video. We already at some sort of idea about what we had to do for […]
Rube Goldberg Project Day Four
One of the many frustrations during this process was setting up the dominoes. Every time we would set up the dominoes they would just fall right down again. It was frustrated because it would take up most of the time that we could be doing takes. Another frustrating thing was when we got all the […]
Rube Goldberg Project Day Three
The last part of our Rube Goldberg is using cups and Popsicle sticks. From where I left off the last domino has a string attached to it which is also attached to a Popsicle stick. There are about 12 cups lined up on two sides which are parallel. We used the sticks and crossed them […]
Rube Goldberg Project Day Two
After coming up with the first part of the Rube Goldberg, my group and I realized that we need another elevation. We only have an elevation at the first part of the Rube Goldberg, after that and so on is just flat. First we thought about making a toy train go up a cardboard ramp […]