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!
Alas, the rocketry unit has come to a close. We launched our newly developed rocket into the air. On a terribly windy day and cold, we took our supplies and headed into the launch zone. After using trundle wheels to mark where we were going, assigned people put the launch pad down and attached everything to everything. Then we launched. 19 meters!!! 5 more meters than the last launch, we found our newly made nose cone helpful in developing a better rocket. Expedition mars has succeeded!!!
Rocketry has been a REALLY fun unit. From doing research to being on the field counting down, I loved it all! Even though our rocket didn’t go very far, we still had fun. I’d like to thank my wonderful group for being amazing teammates. I would also like to thank Mr. Casals for helping me with Rocketry videos and all of that. Mrs. Robert as the one actually setting up the launch. Last thank you, all of you!
I made a video documenting ALL the things my team and I did. Here it is!
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.
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!