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Rube Goldberg 6

March 6, 2019 ahorner26 Leave a comment

For a final blog post of our Rube Goldberg machine I had a lot of fun! There were some good times and no bad time at all. I think that my favorite part of the whole project was succeeding. I loved the feeling I got knowing that we finished way before everyone else. There was one thing that I liked the least (but is still not that bad) was the designing. I think I liked this the least because me and Tate were so excited to get started and once we did get started all we did was brainstorm but then we had to face reality. We realized that our ideas would never work. But there were some things that inspired me. Like from family guy the breakfast machine.

I learned a lot in this project. For example I learned teamwork with Tate. I also learned how to have fun while doing work. I had so much fun doing Rube Goldberg. I think is the most fun I will ever have doing school work. And that’s how my project went. And if you are interested in my video here it is:

5th Grade, Science

Rube Goldberg 5

March 6, 2019 ahorner26 Leave a comment

After planing, designing and succeeding on camera there is only one more thing to, make a video on wevideo. This step is important because you can’t just show a video to your whole class first without making it look nice seconded with no slow motion and third with no fails. So me and Tate HAD to do it. So one day we met up before a hockey game and I thought that we were done but it turns out we had to do that to so I was pretty surprised but because Tate had already started a little of it he taught me what I had to do. I was surprised that it took us only about

15 – 20 minutes (including so distractions) unlike our actual machine. But it did take a while to learn how to upload it to drive and to share with my google account but other than that it only took 15 – 20 minutes. I think that it would have been hard if Tate did not teach me how to do it because I forgot how to from class a few months ago. And that’s what it was like to do the wevideo.

5th Grade, Science

Rube Goldberg 4

March 4, 2019 ahorner26 Leave a comment

Me and Tate have been have been doing a lot of work together lately. We have already finished our plan and building so now we are testing our Rube Goldberg and it’s frustrating, very frustrating because first you have to put up the dominos and it ALWAYS FALLS DOWN. Also say something you know works because it worked before and it does not work the next time because you don’t place something right. Even once our Rube Goldberg worked but the hockey puck was not placed right so it missed the dorito. In all the frustration there were some funny moments like when everything was set up and as a joke Tate said “One more domino for good luck” and all of them fell down all we were doing was laughing and while I was laughing I made Tate fix it. We had to change a pretty good amount of our machine, like say two to three steps so it works. If you look down you will see the changes I made from the original.

(If you can’t the words, top one says “No track just more dominos” and bottom one says “No ramp, tube now”)

5th Grade, Science, Writing

Rube Goldberg 3

February 7, 2019 ahorner26 Leave a comment

Designing the Rube Goldberg machine was pretty fun. The process of what me and Tate did was that every Tuesday and thursday I would go up to his house we would work it was so hard to get the eight steps. I think that it was only really hard because we did not want to over use any item. We could not really like of much items that would fall under the category of old toys we used to play with and we used every one as much as possible without using it to much. Again the hardest part was to get eight or more steps but the second hardest part was to brainstorm materials that we could use that are not crazy.

To help us (my teacher) Mrs.Cooper gave the class this sheet that had all these links of cool Rube Goldberg machines. The most helpful one was definitely the Sprice one. It’s about this 19 year old boy who went on America’s Got Talent (TV show) and did this cool Rube Goldberg machine. Here is the link if you are interested:

5th Grade, Science, Writing

Rube Goldberg 2

February 7, 2019 ahorner26 Leave a comment

Working with Rube Goldberg machines you will learn about how me and Tate are doing together. Are we working good or bad is one question you might be asking? I think that we are working good because we always find time to get together and work. From example every tuesday and thursday I go over to his house and we work. I also think we work good together because we are friends and when we do Rube Goldberg that means we get to hang out so we try to do that a lot.

There were a lot of challenging parts but I think that planning was really hard. At first me and Tate were just throwing ideas out there and brainstorming but once we wrote it down and looked at it, it did not make sense at all. So we re did it and it was really hard to get eight steps which was the requirement but once we got eight steps we could not think of anything else. I think that by working together we have two times the brain power and we go to the same camp and we both did Rube Goldberg their so we have experience.

5th Grade, Science, Writing

Rube Goldberg 1

February 7, 2019 ahorner26 Leave a comment

This year in 5th grade Mrs.Cooper’s class is doing a project called the rube goldberg machine. A rube goldberg machine is a machine that is made to do a simple thing using chain reactions. Like say you can hit a ball that hits dominos that hits a car that goes down a ramp and it gets so much momentum that it hits a soccer ball into a net thats a rube goldberg machine.

You could work with a partner or by yourself. I worked with my friend Tate. We decided to work at his house because his house has more space there. In our rube goldberg machine we used materials like balls, a tube, some hot wheels cars and tracks, marbols a hockey puck and a dorito. There are a lot of decisions we had to make before the plan was done. We had to decide if we should use items that you find around the house or it could be toys that we used to play with or even whatever we want and we buy what we need. (We did the old toys one because it’s cool to use something that not everyone would think of like a race car or some car tracks. That’s about my experience with decision making.

5th Grade, Science

Rocketry Reflection

December 21, 2018 ahorner26 Leave a comment

Rocket Number one:

Rocket number one was interesting. The best part of rocket number one for me was the launch and getting to named our rocket group (The Space Grandmas). The launch was fun for many different reasons. One of them is that my groups rocket went the highest. It went 177 feet. Another reason that the launch was fun that good feeling you get when you do good in something. And I got that feeling when my group’s rocket blasted off the launcher so high. All the other parts were fun to accept for the designing. I was not so fun. Same with the inspiration board. But the only fun part about designing was how to see how our design choices affected us in the launch.

Rocket Number two:

Rocket number two was so much better than rocket number one. I think it was only better because we knew what worked and what didn’t. Again the best part was the launch. Even though our rocket did not go as high I think we liked it so much because our parents watched that launch. I like designing rocket number two much better than designing rocket number one. I think it was better because we work much better together as a group. But there was only one more difference that I did not say that we did in rocket one but not rocket two. That is we did not make another inspiration board. I was fine with this because it was not my favorite part. 2051

Rocket Number three:

For rocket number three all we did was the designing part which you know is not my favorite part. But this time it was a lot of fun because we were not going to launch just design so my group had a lot of fun with it. For example we used four fins on each side so that’s a total of eight fins and that’s a lot of fins if you ask me. We thought that if we used no tape the fins would be our drag.

Conclusion:

I think in the end my groups rocket did great it was very hard along the way but in the end it was worth it to have the highest rocket in the 1st launch. Look below to see my slide show turned out!

`This is our video of our presentation!

4th Grade, Science

Desert Ecosystem WeVideo

June 14, 2018 ahorner26 Leave a comment

After we finished our blog post about our food web my class started to make a wevideo on the bad impacts that are impacting the desert. What I found that has a bad impact on deserts are how the deserts are becoming hotter. This is killing all the animals in the deserts. The wevideo had a lot of steps to it. The first step to making the wevideo is to research. After that was just that we went to wevideo and make a practice video and we just played around wit wevideo. The next step was we had to find information what are some bad things that are happening to the desert. The next step was to make a doc on what are we going to do once we get to the step of starting wevideo and in that doc we only used the words black, graphic, narration and call to action. After that we did that we got a storyboard. A storyboard is something where you can lay out your ideas on a sheet of paper. After the storyboard I had to go into wevideo and we just started to get pictures lay it out. After that we did that again just we had to make it 1:00 min exactly. After that we had a talk about the importance of going back to the storyboard. After that we started working in class and making it look great! After that if we wanted to get better pictures we went to a site called search.creativecommons.org. That site made cheer that the pictures that show their are ok for you to use in wevideo. After that we learned how to put music and audio in our PSA. Last that we did was learn how to finish it and put it into drive.

I think the hardest thing I did was to finish it and put it into drive. This was hard for me because of all steps there was to it for example, how you had to press the finish button and then press the drive button and then share it with our computer teacher Mr.Casal.

I think the easiest thing in it was to make to doc because all you need to do is write the words black, graphic, narration and call to action.

Now this is my PSA:

4th Grade, Science

Desert Ecosystems

May 4, 2018 ahorner26 Leave a comment

Deserts

Deserts are very important to the world. Many people think that there are not many deserts out there. If you think that then you’re very wrong. Deserts are so popular that they are found in every continent except Europe. Deserts are located everywhere, but the most famous desert is the Sahara desert. In the Sahara desert and many other deserts there are many producers, consumers, decomposers and more!

Some producers in the desert are cacti plant, melon, flower, prickly pear, desert sand verbena, Mojave desert star, kennedy’s mariposa lily and the desert pea. Now here are some consumers in the desert there are scorpions, spiders, Roadrunner, antelope, snake, fox’s, golden eagle, Gila woodpecker, cactus wren, desert locusts, ground beetle and lizards. Here are some decomposers (I have Very little information) termites and mushrooms.

Deserts are unique because many people when they think about deserts they think of a place that’s hot and that not many animals live in but both of those statements are wrong deserts can be hot or cold and that many animals live in it like I listed up above.

3rd Grade, Science, Writing

Plant Observation #3

June 1, 2017 ahorner26 Leave a comment

Pollination

In the past 2 weeks my class pollinated are plants. If you pollinated a plant that means that you carried pollen from your finger onto hopefully onto the stigma which is the sticky part of a plant and when pollen and pollen mikes you get a seed!Knowing that my class found out that when we pollinated the flowers fell off and the stem got thick. Why do you think that happened? Well that happened because the stem is storing the seeds in the stem and the flowers are falling off because the plant already reproduced so it has no more uses.(This is my controlled plant the manipulated plant is totally dead.) Also if you want to pollinate your our plant all you have to do is touch each one of your plants to pollinate them. And there are ether pollinater’s ether than use, bats pollinate, ladybugs pollinate, hummingbirds pollinate, bees pollinate and even butterflies pollinate isn’t it cool how all these animals help the world and we don’t even know?

Manipulated

My groups plant manipulated is doing so bad that we just today threw it out in the trash. I thought why was it doing so bad? Could it be with the notes about it? I looked at the notes and I saw that on 5/19/17 it was ¼ of a inch tall, the soil was dry, 4 leaves and orange sproot but on the 22 all the plants were gone! It’s like someone stole all the plants in that quad (that were we put the plants in it’s called a quad because it has for sides and quad means 4) but someone could not have stolen my groups plants but then how did it get missing? I think the sugar water did it because that did not happen to the controlled plant and my group just gave it water, so it has to be because of the sugar water but why would the sugar water do this to a plant,a plant reproduces on sugar though why would the sugar water kill the plant? It does that because plants don’t reproduce on normal sugar it reproduces on its own sugar called glucose.

Controlled

My controlled plant is doing great! But the weird thing is that on 5/23/17-5/25/17 there were some brown leaves but why. Well we know that in the fall the leaves change color so we got our solution but it’s not fall so why would the happen? Could it be too much sunlight, because when we get to much sunlight we get tane and that’s close to brown. But plants can’t get too much sunlight so why would some of the leaves be brown? I found out that in leaves there’s something called chlorophyll with gives the plants leaves the color green. And when it gets cold the chlorophyll runs out and so brown yellow and orange are the real colors of a plant.

Prediction

My 1st prediction about my plant is that more leaves would fall off because I already pollinated our groups controlled plant and because I used to have 24 leaves but now I have 5 leaves left. My 2nd prediction is that the stem will get thicker because the plant is going to make more seeds if not already done. My 3rd prediction is that my plant is going to grow even more if we replant the plant because it’s a brand new fresh seed and because the plant was doing good and it is healthy. My 4th and last prediction is that my I think plant will start having wet soil because it has been happening for the past 3 days.