Category: 5th Grade
Capstone blog post number 6: working on my final product
I was so excited to finish my final ignite presentation I memorized all of my script. Doing the finial project was not very easy. you have to do lots of research . I am pretty relieved that I finished my capstone presentation. And I have memorized it. To answer your the whole capstone project was really hard and challenging. For the presentation, we had main inquiry question. The main question was: how do the fitness and nutritional regimens of football and basketball players compare. For the Capstone, you have to do plenty of blog posts, you make a presentation on google slides, you got to make your script and memorize it. You had a choice to do an ignite, ted talk or a movie. I chose to do an Ignite. An Ignite is twelve slides, three minutes, 15 seconds per slide. The most challenging was working on the script. The easiest part was finding pictures. I worked on the Ignite for a long time. My favorite slide is the conclusion. The slide recaps all my points.
Immagrant blog post #3 – The interview
Before I did my interview I was a little bit nervous. I was nervous becasue I wasn’t confident the video was going to turn out well. For the interview I factimed my grandfather with my mothers phone and I took the video with my phone. I was ready because I had all of my questions ready. When I started the call I became a little more confident as the time passed. The video was supposed to be no more than five minutes long, but I accidentaly made it eight.
When I called my grandfather on my moms phone he picked up right away. I got butterflies in my stomach. So I said the first question. “1 Why did you leave your country?” I thought his answer was pretty good. But when my grandfather said something I didn’t prefer for him to say I cringed. At the end of the eight minute video I was super satisfied. I thought the whole video turned out very good. And I gave a big thanks to my grandfather. I am going to be super excited to put the interview video into spark video.
Blog post number 2 – Spark Video
We make our interview into a video and then put our interview video into a website called Spark Video. Spark Video is a really cool and easy website to make slideshows and more. Before we put our interview video into Spark Video we did a practice video about Rube Goldberg. Which was one of our earlier projects. For our practice Rube Goldberg slideshow we were assigned to make a 10 slide video. We put in pictures and text. Mr. Casal showed us a lot we could do with Spark Video and I was excited to try it out.
Mr. Casal showed us voice recorder which I thought was something really cool that I wanted to use. In my first slide for my Rube Goldberg I wrote This is my Rube Goldberg slideshow for an intro. I kept on working on my slides putting pictures and text. Eventually Mr. Casal showed us something called a post. A post is basically a slide but you can explore and add much more. I made a post and put it in my 8th slide. I am really excited for my next Spark Video slideshow.
Writing the Immigrant Interview Questions – Interview #1
In 5th grade we do an immigrant project. We choose someone to do an interview on about. We choose 10 to 15 questions to ask our immigrant. The questions are immigrant related so that’s why we chose an immigrant. I chose to do 12 questions. There had to be at least 10 green light questions. A green light question is where the answer has to be a full sentence. A red light question is where the question is an only one word answer. I am going to interview my grandfather who immigrated from Hungary. For the interview I am going to call him.
I got a sheet of paper where some questions were. So I used some of the questions on the paper for my interview questions. This is a link to my Interview Questions.
Those were all of my questions that I am going to use for my interview. I am very excited for the interview. I wonder what he is going to answer.
Rube Goldberg #6 – Reflection
Our Rube Goldberg project so fun. My group and I had a great experience. We worked very hard and the hard work we put in payed off. We went through a lot of challenges like putting all of the dominos together to taping a cup onto a table and failing a ton of times. We took a lot of breaks to play xbox which was fun. It took a lot of time to get our whole Rube Goldberg building done. At first we started building in the attic but than we realized that we needed a table so we can put all of our materials on it.
After we accomplished the finished building my group was very relieved. At the start we had a lot of fails and it was very frustrating. But, buy our 16th time we succeeded! My group and I were super happy we never thought we were going to succeed. We made an imovie about our whole project showing going to the hardware store, our fails and successes and brainstorming. Our group and I had such a fun time with this project.
Rube Goldberg #5 – Our Success
Our Rube Goldberg was very frustrating because we had so many fails before our first success. Several times we dropped the basketball it bounced over the truck and didn’t hit the blocks. Since that kept on happening we moved the truck farther from the ramp. We used a stick each time to mark where the truck was so that if it failed we could move it, and if it worked we could keep it at the same place. Then, our next challenge was getting the cup just right so the ball would fall into it. The cup couldn’t be to high or too low it had to be just perfect so the ball would fall in. taping the tubes were also a challenge. We discovered when the tape was to tight there wasn’t enough air flow and the ball would get stuck.
We kept getting closer and closer and our last change was to move the toilet paper roll to the end of the ramp instead of infront of the goal. We weren’t really succeeding well at first but at last, we succeeded! My group and I were so happy and relieved.
Rube Goldberg #2 – first meeting
It was 4 days or so after I figured out who to work on for the Rube Goldberg project when my team met for the first time. My house didn’t have a lot of materials so it was hard to decide what to use for step 1. Finally, after some help from my mom we figured that shooting a basketball in a basketball hoop would be a good idea. After we accomplished step 1 we got stuck for a while. Finally, we agreed to use dominoes but, the problem was we didn’t have dominoes!
We got tired of working so we took a long break to play fortnite and golf. After the fun break we worked on the project a little bit more. We actually changed the step two the basketball hits a car that hits dominoes which we were going to get from Reece. And then after Eli and Reece both left I was excited for our next meeting.
Blog post number 1: Choosing teams
In 5th grade we do a Rube Goldberg project. A Rube Goldberg is a chain reaction that intentionally designed to perform a simple task in an indirect and over complicated fashion. In Heathcote a Rube Goldberg project is when 1 to 4 people design a Rube Goldberg machine. First, you have to design on your group. It was a tough decision, but we made it all work out. The kids I decided to work with for the Rube Goldberg project was Eli, and Reece. I thought that the group would have a great potential to build a successful Rube Goldberg machine.
Next, after we choose our teams we had to decide on whos house to the project work on. And finally after a long discussion we figured to work at my house because I have the most space to do the project.
Finally, after sorting out our teams we started to plan.
MLK blog post
Martin Luther King jr had a big impact on the world. He chose to be an upstander not a bystander. Martin Luther King was famous for his “I have a dream speech”. He was the reason how black and white people have the same rights. King was born in 1929. He attended Morehouse college in 1944. King followed his father’s footsteps and became a pastor in 1948. He married Coretta Scott in 1953. King was known for lots of protesting so black and white people have the same rights. King also was jailed 30 times. King had a ton of courage to speak in front of millions for the “I have a dream speech”. In the I have a dream speech King spoke about how he had a dream about in the future black and white people would be brothers and sisters. King got assassinated and killed in 1968. Overall, Martin Luther King Jr was a great person, and had a great impact on the world.
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