Feature Article – Done at last!
Hello everybody! After a month of hard work, me and Lsteil27 finally finished our article about Heathcote! Yay! We did the topic of Truancy for our article. No idea what that is? Check out our article below!
Archive of ‘Writing’ category
Feature Article – Reflection
Hello! In this post we are going to go though the process of making my article! The first part of me and Leo’s journey is explained in our first video. After receiving the survey and laying out the article, we got to work. We worked on our intros, which I got to say, needed some work. We worked on the actual paragraphs, and we added features and headers. We had to shrink down our writing so it would fit in the Google Slide that we were designing the article. About halfway into our work we interviewed Roan and Ajene about our topic, truancy. We gathered all our information and created our article. I have to say it’s pretty good, check it out in the post called, “Feature Article – Done at last,” and see our work of art. Right now we are finishing up our work. And by the way, we also have to do a PODCAST too. I just did mine a day or two ago, and it was, well, um, how do I put this, a little boring. I had to go out in the hallway and shove my head in a box to make the sound sound “podcasty”. But overall this was a bit repetitive, hard work, and a pretty good way to end the year 2019! Have a great holiday everybody!
Feature Articles – Starting the unit
A new unit is here! In writing, we are being journalists and writing about Heathcote school! So far, it’s been awesome! We are working towards writing enough articles to make a whole 5R newspaper! First we had to chose topics. (We’ve been assigned a partner to work with) Our topic was absences, and the law about them. We chose this topic because people aren’t exactly educated on the law of absences. We had to research a BUNCH. We took down notes and websites that tell you information. We scheduled interviews and will soon do them. We lied out the first layouts of what the article gonna look like, and surveyed lots people on our topic.
Overall, the start of the unit was really fun, but really busy. We’ve been doing so much this past two weeks, I may have forgotten to list some of the things we did! I wouldn’t say this unit is going to be hard, but I wouldn’t say it is going to be easy. I am looking forward to the next part of this unit!
Passion project
Hi guys!! In school, we are doing one of the final projects of the year. It’s called a passion project. You get to choose anything, from Piccaso to mars, and do a big presentation about it! You can do a gallery, slideshow, ted talk, poster, posters, or really anything you want!!!!
I’m doing the basics of Atoms in a ted talk. Why you may ask? Okay, I thought it would be cool to do something more science like and something I knew nothing about. Do you want to see the script for my ted talk? Here it is:
Everything in the world, your clothes, the food you ate yesterday, you, as in you watching this ted talk, my wonderful teacher, my wonderful teacher’s cat, all of us, abiotic and biotic, we all are made of the same thing. It’s an atom. A-T-O-M. Tiny little circles that make up everything.
99.99999999999% of an atom is empty space, and they are 100 picometers long, otherwise known as a ten billionth of a meter. In the center of the atom there is the nucleus. It’s made up of two nucleons, particles. First off there are Neutrons. Neutrons have no charge, none at all. They are also pretty big. They are ALWAYS in the nucleus, and there are usually many of them. So, to determine the number of neutrons in atom, you only have to subtract the number of protons from the mass number. (the mass of an atom of a chemical element expressed in atomic mass units). Each atom has a similar number of neutrons. Neutrons were discovered in 1932, by James Chadwick. These are very important and a atom wouldn’t be an atom without a Neutron.
Then there are protons, Protons are also nucleons, and they were discovered in 1920, by Ernest Rutherford. Protons are bonded (held together) to Neutrons by a force called the nuclear force. This force is SUPERSTRONG, and is SUPERHARD to break. Also, protons have a positive charge, a positive charge of ONE. (from the charge of the quarks that make up nucleons). They are pretty huge, about the same size as a neutrons, and also like neutrons, are critical to the atom, and no atom, not copper, not oxygen, not carbon, no atom in the periodic table is complete without a proton. I should actually say nucleon, because it’s also true that no element has 0 neutrons ether.
Then there are electrons, and they have a negative charge. Electrons were discovered in the year 1897, by someone named J.J Thomson. They are tiny, WAY tinier than a proton or neutron, and they are not nucleons. Yep, I said it, they are definitely not nucleons. They go around the atom on orbitals, 1s, 2s, 2p, and 3s. These “orbitals” are made from the density of the one or more electrons that spin around the nucleus. The electromagnetic force causes this spinning to happen. Lemme tell you about it. Since protons have a positive charge, and electrons have a negative charge, they attract and repel each other, creating the spinning. The spinning, is ULTRAFAST, 1/137 of the speed of light! Which for your information, is WAY faster than the speed of sound. So the atoms in you are orbiting faster than my words are reaching your ear. Isn’t that super neat?
Atoms are VERYIMPORTANT and VERYCRITICAL to our existence. Every type of atom, whether it’s helium or carbon is important, very important. As I speak, Scientists are discovering more atoms and more materials. But they aren’t going as fast as they can. They need, WE NEED more people to help find more types of atoms and unlock more parts of the physics world. Elements are waiting for you to discover. I hope you learned something, because this is important, and it’s not going fast enough, and someone needs to step up and do something, if anyone, it’s YOU!
I really hope you didn’t find that boring. Anyways, thats it.
Poetry
Today we have to make up some poetry. I am going to tell you some, but it will not be in its best form because this interface does a double enter when I press the return key! so here is one of my more happy poems that I came up with:
Passing by in the window seat. See the fields and the city. The cows and the trucks. I wait for arrival. But I realize later that the drive is more interesting than the thing we are going to.
That poem was called, “Window Seat” and I came up with that because I sometimes have to go on really long drives, and I think the scenery is very beautiful. I came up with more poems,, but those, well, are way to dark to put on this blog.
I have been playing around with different fonts on Google Docs lately. Fonts are a way to make poems better and more personalized, so I’ve have been using many many many fonts do do each poem. One that I really like is called, “Indie flower”. I like it because it’s like my handwriting, and it is very pretty (not saying my handwriting is). Here is another poem:
153. Every +. Every – equals pancakes on the roof. 145. Every *. Every / equals blue apples and red cats. What can I do. Every number, every thing equals another thing. When will it end.
That poem, I don’t know what to call it. Maybe, “5 x 6 = pancake” or something. I have always wondered how and why math turns out that way. There is no “what ifs” in math, no “It doesn’t make sense,” But, my brain tells me I can do it and understand it.
First Passion Project!
We are starting our first passion project! Yippy! We are doing it on issues that are happening in our life and the world. I chose poverty. Why? Because it is something happening in the world right now, and it is a super big problem. Poverty can happen when a person doesn’t have food, water, a house and a job. Once you are in, it is very hard to get out. People in poverty are mostly in Africa because (I think) there is so little water and so little food that more people drop into poverty than anywhere else. (This may be a false statement, it is probably true) That is why I want to do my passion project on this. It is a very interesting topic. People, like me say that poorer countries have more poverty than others. That has been shown correct. All this stuff is very interesting to me and that is why I chose this.
Research Projects
Our class has been working on researching. I learned something very important: NOTES! Yes, notes. Why? Okay, so we each had a partner and every partnership had an animal. My animal was the alligator. We got a bunch of books about alligators, and we read them! But we didn’t just read, we took notes, lots of notes. We came up with five subtopics, alligator communication, types of alligators, alligators are good parents, alligator meals and alligator hunting. We studied important vocabulary, not copying and much more. It was hard work researching, but I managed to get all the information down. Then I put it into a Google Slide presentation, in comic book form! Here it is…
Our animal book was just practice, because something bigger was coming. My country studies book. We had to choose a country to study. I chose Egypt. We took notes and more notes from some library databases and just facts that I already knew. We took note after note after note. Then I put my information in captions, my side information into speech bubbles (for my character to say), and visual information into pictures. I spent about two weeks to complete it. I worked hard for those weeks and I put a lot of effort into it. I hope you enjoy!
Plant Experiments (Week 2-3)
Our controlled quad is doing great. Since there’s no bees in the classroom, we have been taping the plants for pollination. We observed that the petals of the flowers are falling off. Mrs. Luciano told us that it was normal. “The flower petals are falling of so it can grow seed pods” She had said. Our plant is green, bright bright green. It has a few yellow leaves, but that’s okay. Our seed pods are turning brown and it is getting ready to fall. The plant is almost at the end of its life. We are going from seed to seed. Our manipulated plant has no flowers, is dying and looks like it got zapped by lightning. There’s buds, but I don’t think their going to be flowers any time soon.
Our experiment is over, we got our conclusion. We put our manipulated plant on a diet of regular water, not dyed. But the second round of flowers just came, and there’s flowers galore. I looked today and I saw something horrifying, our manipulated plant dyed! I am so sad. But it proved our experiment. I’d like to say a thank you to Mrs. Luciano, for teaching us and helping us along, the school district, for the seeds. Thank you for this wonderful opportunity!