It has been nine weeks since we first started tech class, and it was really fun! We did amazing projects, learned fun things and I had a great time! Our teacher, Mr. Calvert was really nice and made an amazing curriculum. We started with simple machines, which led into cams and cranks, which we made out of paper, and then we went more electrical and learned about atoms and electrons! Through educational slides, we learned about dos and don’ts of circuits, and then actually tried it ourselves with the breadboards provided by the school! Lastly, we made wooden levers that we hang on our light switches! Mine didn’t work out so well, so my teacher is fixing it! I don’t think I waxed the gears correctly, but who knows! Overall, it was a great nine weeks, and I had a wonderful time!
This is our second to last week of technology class! So sad! But we did do some fun stuff. Continuing our study on electrons and circuits, we made a small circuit on a breadboard that lit up a few light bulbs! One of the questions I had on the breadboards, was why was it called a breadboard? Turns out, in ye olden days of breadboards, they put the wires into wooden blocks, and sometimes they even used literal breadboards. As electronic breadboards were made (and eventually digital ones), the name, just, sort of stuck! Anyways, we learned how breadboards move electricity, and how some electricity can be too much for a lightbulb, so we used resistors. Resistors slow down the flow of elections, and in doing so they get really hot! Overall, it was a fun project and I love the hands-on experiences we get to do in class.
I hope you all are well.