Technology #7

I have finished my drawing how does it look…

The thing next to the plug on the right side with the vertical lines from your view and the oval looking shape at the top of is my LED light, that is the thing that lights up. The circle at the bottom of the screen is the battery, it powers the light. The rectangle at the top of the picture with the oval on top of it is my switch it will turn on my battery by letting the electrons flow. The next step is soldering my wires and putting a hole where the LED will be so the flashlight will shine out.

 

Technology Post #6

Today we were working flashlights and I have been working on my plan.  It’s a drawing that looks like this picture…

I only have a couple more things to do until i finish my drawing.  As you can see there is a plug coming out of the right side, I need to add two more plugs the other two openings.  I also have add my circuit which causes the flashlight to shine.

The drawing has to be precise because it is drawn to scale.  The bottom left corner shows the scale – 1 box equals 1/4inches. The lines have to be straight so I use a ruler to draw them.

Technology posts 5

So now I made  switch. So basically I made a base for my switch which had tin foil one it so when the top(which also has tinfoil on it)touched the bottom a light turned on. This worked because two wires connected to the switch I made and to the light bulb. A picture looked like this…

Technology Post #3

Now in technology we are making jewelry. We just started making the plans. There is circles and we have 5 wires to use. We have 15 circles on a piece of paper and we have to make 15 designs. I chose my final design it is a  design based on my cousins charity Athletes vs. Chrons & colitis disease. Here is a link https://www.athletesvscrohns.org/

Now you know my design for my jewelry.

Technology Post #2

We are learning about atoms and electrons it is really interesting. I think it is interesting because we get to learn how important electrons are. For example if we have an orange the orange would need to be the size of the earth to see the atoms. Also the positive collect at the top of the cloud and the negative electrons collect at the bottom no one knows why this happens.

Intro To 6th Grade Tech

I just got into my first few technology classes at the Scarsdale middle school, yes I am In the Scarsdale middle school now in 6th grade. The first day we discussed the expectations and projects and  we are going to make and the tools we are going to use. The second day we went over safety precautions, it was kind of scary because Mr. Calvert explained accidents that have happened in the past where someone got hurt. I will try to be careful while using the machines. The third day we  did a challenge to find clues to unlock a bin with goggles inside with a team to improve teamwork it was very fun. The lock got jammed so we couldn’t unlock it but we still found code to unlock the lock. And the forth day we got introduced to the blogs we will have to make over the course of the quarter. I am excited to continue technology and share the projects that I make on my blog.

Capstone — Working on my Final Product

There are 2 major pieces of the final product – one is the sript and the other are slides that go along with it.

Writing the script was difficult because I had to incorporate all of my sub questions while staying in the 6 minute timeframe – – I had too much to say and had to make hard choices around when to keep in and what to cut out.  I learned that the first draft is never the final draft – you must go through and edit.  The script took about 1.5 weeks to complete – my final version is very different than my first draft.

The slides were easier to complete, the pictures have to relate to the script for that slide.  I added the images to my slide show from Google.  I think that if a visual is good then it will help convey the mesasge I am trying to say.   Finding images was pretty simple but there were a lot of images to choose from – I had to carefully pick the ones that first best with my script.

Once all of the my material were finished I had to practice, practice, practice.  I practiced in school with my friends and at home with my parents.  It is a lot of hard work and I still need to keep memorzing my script.  I am still working on this part but I think I will be done and ready by the time I have to present.

Capstone — Answering My Main Inquiry Question

Answering my main inquiry question was fun but challenging.

It fun because doing research led me to think about my topic in different ways.  For example ton cool facts  like I didn’t realize that the total number of home runs during the Steriod Era 4,782 or that 10.2% of players hit more that 40 home runs in  a single season. It was challenging because I was able to gather lots of information from my research, interviews and site visit, but it was hard to pull all the information together into a couple of meaningful paragraphs.

My main inquiry question is, How does performance enhancing drugs or (PEDs ) affect player performance in sports? In order to answer this question I needed to do the following: online research, 2 interveiws, and a site visit. All of these components helped in different ways for example my research helped me with gathering facts and my interviews helped  me with getting information that I could not get to online or that wasn’t publically available, and my site visit also helped me visualize some of the information I had been reading about.

 

 

 

Mixtures and Solutions

Today in class we did mixtures and solutions for science, we did experiments and hypotheses that went with each experiment. One hypothesis that I did today was “if we combine 1 tsp of colored sugar and oil then the oil will reject the sugar because the sugar is more dense than the oil so the oil cannot dissolve the sugar. Overall the lesson was really fun today and excited to do more mixtures and solutions work!