We used our research on our comic book by talking with each other. We also used our research on our comic by adding pictures and fact boxes.
The Cultural Universals are Politics, Cultural Arts, Economics, Social Aspects, and Beliefs.
The title of our comic book is “Cultural Universals On Spain”.
Our favorite part of the project was making out characters for a our comic.
What we found it challenging was finding facts for “beliefs”.
Politics
My mom and dad set the rules in my house. They set the rules in my house because they want my sister my brother and I to be safe. One of the rules is not to hurt anyone because I
will get in trouble.
Social aspects
My school is called Heathcote. We have school 30 hours a week. My favorite subject is science. Some things we do in third grade is build and studied maglev trains, we read and write. On the weekends I play a lot of sports and video games. My country club is wykagyl. I am on a soccer team of bayern. I am on a baseball team of nights. My house is big with a lot rooms. I live with my babysitter, my mom, my dad, my sister , my brother and me. I play soccer, baseball ,football , kickball, dodgeball, basketball, golf, tennis, fortnite, rat slap, bingo manhunt, sardines.
Beliefs
One of my beliefs, I celebrate Christmas which is at the end of the year. The reason for it is for Jesus birth.
Cultural arts
My favorite movies are ski movies. I like to listen rock and roll because it sounds good. I play the piano, my sister plays the piano, and last but not least my brother plays the piano and trumpet. My favorite book in Key Hunters is the Wizards War because it is interesting.
Economics
I go to a lot of stores like Balducci’s, Golden Horseshoe, Scarsdale village.
Our first design was a really bad fail because on our track was 1 north strip magnet and 3 south disk magnets across the track but we did not think about what would happen when train was going to levitate above the track. But then we realized that the disk magnets are really bad. On our train we put 2 south disk magnets but to mention again disk magnets are not good and disk magnets are to heavy so it was not levitating so high and that is not we want because then it won’t get it across the track which is what we want to accomplish. The other thing that happened was that trains two south disk magnets attracted to the 1 strip magnet on the track.
We had multiple problems but our biggest problem was we had way to much tape train and it was tipping over so it was not levitating or floating to the other side this matters because we were not accomplishing our goal. Some of our other problems were the disk magnets were not working also our track was not what it was supposed to be at the beginning.
Our final design worked because our track was what it was supposed to be and our train levitated above the track and with a tiny push it levitated with 6 passengers safely across the track not tilting at all. Now our train had 2 strip magnets on the side of the train and 4 strip magnets stacked on top of each other on the sides.
During maglev I was excited because I wanted to see what it would be,happy because I will be an engineer for the first time in my life, and nervous because we had a lot of problems.
Maglev train
Our Controlled plants are really interesting because they keep on growing throughout each day. They are growing buds. Day 8, One of our plants is 20 leaves 10 buds and 11 cm.Day 9, One of are plants are 22 leaves 10 buds 15 cm. Day 10,one of are plants are the same as day 9. Day 11,one of are plants are the same as day 9,10. Day 12,same as day 9,10,11. Day 12,one of are plants are 26 leaves 10 buds 16 cm. Day 13,one of are plants are 26 leaves 6 buds 19 cm. Day 14,one of are plants are 22 leaves 13 buds 13 cm. Day 15,one of are plants are 22 leaves 5 buds 20 cm.
Our Manipulated plants are really interesting because they keep on growing throughout each day. They are growing buds. Day 8,one of are plants are 25 leaves 6 buds 13 ½ cm. Day 9,one of are plants are 23 leaves 10 buds 16 cm. Day 10,one of are plants are plants are 16 leaves 6 buds 14 cm. Day 11,one of are plants are 18 leaves 8 buds 12 cm. Day 12,one of are plants are 24 leaves 14 buds 13 cm. Day 13,same as yesterday,Day 14,one of are plants are 10 leaves 6 buds 14 cm. Day 15,one of are plants are 16 leaves 4 buds 14 cm.
When we started pollinating our flowers we used a Q-tip. We used the Q-tip by going around to other plants touching the pistil and coming back to our plant and then touching our pistil. In a few days something started to happen. The thing that happened was our plants started growing seed pods. They look so cool.
For our controlled they are growing really tall. Day 14, one of are plants are 25 leaves 6 buds 19 cm. Day 15, one of are plants are 22 leaves 13 buds 20 cm. Day 16, one of are plants are 21 leaves 7 buds 20 cm. Day 17, same as yesterday. For our manipulated. Day 14, one of are plants are 10 leaves 6 buds 14 cm. Day 15, one of are plants are 16 leaves 4 buds 14 cm. Day 16, one of are plants are 8 leaves 5 buds 14 cm. Day 17, one of are plants are 15 leaves 0 buds 13 cm.
I think our plants seed pods in a few days will look like beans.
Here are my seed pods
I thought the plant unit was going to be really hard but it turned out it was really easy. This is how we made the plant. We had a quad which is a foam square with four cells. We had two quads manipulated and controlled because at one point we were going to make one change for the manipulated and see if it grew. At first we needed to put the wick through the bottom of the quad so the plant could get water easily. Then we put a little bit of soil about a quarter of the way up then we put fertilizer. Then we put a little more soil. Then we put in the seeds. Then we put soil to the top of the cell. Then we watered it. I was really excited.
These are my plant observations…
Day 1 Manipulated nothing Controlled nothing
Day 2 Manipulated nothing Controlled nothing
Day 3 Our tallest plant in Manipulated is is in cell 2 with 8 leaves 2 and ½ cm tal our tallest plant in Controlled is green 11 leaves 6 cm
Day 4 Our tallest plant in Manipulated is green 11 leaves 6 cm. Our tallest plant in Controlled is green 13 leaves 6 cm
Day 5 Our tallest plant in manipulated is green 13 leaves 5 ½. Our tallest plant in controlled is green 16 leaves 7 cm
Day 6 Our tallest plant in manipulated is green 14 leaves 4 ½ cm. Our tallest plant in controlled is green 18 leaves 6
This is my plant group