Blog post #9

This is our last week of technology. I am really sad that it is over because it was a really fun quarterly. My favorite projects were probably the electroscope and the cam mechanism. I really liked these projects because they were all about trial and error, and when I made a mistake I knew how to fix it. I really like Mr. Calvert teaching us because he made it really fun and he made everything easy to understand. I have learned so much from this quarterly and I can’t wait to have it next year!

Blog post #8

This week in tech, it is our second to last week of the quarter. I will remeber to bring my bag into call on Monday! Today we stated watching “The Battery Movie”. I thought it was very interesting and funny. We learned about how batteries are made and the side effects of them. I though that the people that taught us about it in the video were really funny and they made it really fun. I am sad the quarter is almost over!

Blog Post #7

This week in Tech, the project for the week is building an electroscope. The first thing I did was bringing out all the materials i needed. I had all of them. I watched the video and paused it do to every step carefully. When the video came to the step where you had to blow up the ballon and rub it against your electroscope, I couldn’t find my balloon, I remembered that I had taken it out in the beginning  of the project, but I didn’t find it. I searched for 10 min and still couldn’t find it. I decided to substitute  the ballon with a plastic water bottle. I did the experiment and video taped it. After that I started to clean up, and I took apart my whole entire electroscope. While I was cleaning up I found the ballon! I decided to make another electroscope

Blog post #6

This week in class we learned bout atoms. I thought it was pretty interesting that atoms are so small that with the worlds strongest microscope you still wouldn’t be able to see them. I thought to myself “how do we know that atom are real if we have never seen one before?” This week we also learned about the universe it is SO huge, but at the same time in is very small. We talked about both point of view’s. I am almost done with Cam A, and I am going to record in tomorrow.

Blog post #4

This week we made our Catapults. Mine was a little unstable but I am excited to see how it turns out. The weeks class in person was fun we did a Nearpod and practice cutting out thick paper with our safety cutters, and we listened to music while we did that. This week my goal is to finish my lever, do 1 more blog post and finish up the Nearpods.

Blog post #3

This week my project in technology is building trusses. Before conducting this project I got all my materials ready. The materials for this project were, toothpicks or and type of hard material to stick the toothpicks in. I this case I used carrots, because they are very hard but you can also cut them easily. This project was very frustrating becasue every time one toothpick didn’t fit into the carrot the whole entire structure would fall. In the end my truss wasn’t very successful, it only held 1 book.

Blog post #2

This week is the last week for building our I-beams. I am almost done with mine and I am interested to see how it turns out. The material I used for this project include, glue, cardboard, scissors, and a ruler. It was a little hard for me to cut the cardboard with scissors because I am a lefty, so with my parents  permission and help I used a sharp cutting tool to help cut my cardboard.  The end result of my I-Beam turned out to be amazing! It held 20 cans of food and 5 books!

Blog post #1

This week we got our tech bags. Inside the tech bags the materials inside include, a ruler, tape, LED lights, a wire cuter, scissors, glue, popsicles sticks, toothpicks, balloons,  ect. I am really excited about our tech bags because we are going to build and experiment with these materials. We also did a couple Nearpods and learned a little bit about I-beams. I am excited to build mine!

PE Log

For this assignment , I made a chart saying all the physical activities that I did for that week. Then I counted all the number’s up and created an average. One of the formulas I did was on Wednesday I got over 2 hours of exercise. I think this chart helped me because this way I could see all the physical activity I did for that week and if I need to do anymore.