Category: Social Studies
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.
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.
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.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FxRjWdS6fCUPCVO65F331vsu9anfubZ3/view
Colonial Day
In 4th grade we have colonial day. My favorite activity from colonial day was toys and games. There were three stations there were pick up sticks which is some one from one of the two teams drops a bunch of sticks, one person from one team had to pick up the sticks with out moving another stick. If the person move another stick than it was the other teams turn. And on and on until there were no sticks left. When all of the sticks are gone the team with the most sticks wins. And another station had small cups with a ball connected to the cup and you had to get the ball in the cup. It was not like a cup that you would drink out of. I got the ball in the cup twice. And the last station was rolling a wooden hoop with a wooden stick. And the hoop could not fall you had to keep balance with the hoop. What I learned was that colonist worked a lot and they had a lot of jobs. I wish I learned more about how boys were treated in dame school. Colonial times was different than today. Because the clothes were different, they made candles different, they had different toys, they cooked different, they had dame school, they wore different clothes, and they had horn books for dame school. Those were just some of the reasons why colonial times was different than today. Colonial day was very fun!
Curiosity Project – Football
At the start 4th grade we had to do a curiosity project. A Curiosity Project is something you know about or you wanted to know about. We did a lot of research.
We did the curiosity project on google slides.
For my project i did Football I did football because football is very fun to watch and play. And I have loved football since I was 2 years old. And my Curiosity Project was very fun.
This is my curiosity project: