hi this week in technology we worked on making little circuits. we are making little conctractions, we can be as imaginative as possible we just have to make one piece of tin foil tough another piece of tin foil. Next we will attach a light and circuits to make the light, light up. My […]
Technology post #1
This quarter I have technology as my quarterly. This week in technology we mainly focused on getting the rules straight. We learned about how to stay safe in the room, and how to use the materials, maturely, and safely. On thursday it was human rights day at sms. In every quarterly a speaker came to […]
Capstone Final #7
We finally finished. We presented and were done. I worked very hard for it and now I have done it. On Tuesday 6/19 we presented our capstone presentation to our families. We all did a great job. I wasn’t very nervous because I knew that I knew my topic and my parents all the other kid’s parents aren’t […]
Practicing for Capstone #6
For Capstone, you need to present a slideshow about your topic. For presenting you can do a slideshow or an ignite. And ignite is where the slide changes by itself every fifteen seconds. A Ted Talk is where you change the slide by yourself and it is not timed. I chose a Ted Talk because I didn’t […]
Capstone Essay #5
As you may know, for Capstone to answer our main inquiry question we have to write an essay. I choose to have 3 reasons and 3 examples for each. For me writing the Essay has been the hardest part of capstone because while you are writing the essay you still have to think about your final presentation […]
Capstone #4
You may know that when doing Capstone you have to do a site visit for your project. I had a lot of trouble finding a place that I could go because most of the Barbie places to go are in Miami or L.A. I decided that I had to get creative. I thought of what […]
Capstone #3
So you may know for Capstone I have chosen to do Barbie and Feminism. As you also may know one of the requirements for Capstone is to have an interview with an expert on your topic. When I was finding my interview I had a lot of trouble because the first people that I contacted did not respond. […]
Ellis Island trip
Today we went to Ellis Island. In class we have been working on immigration to the U.S. and the immigrants had to go through Ellis Island. I was very interesting to actually see Ellis Island. We left for Ellis Island at 7:00. We took a bus that took around 1:35 minutes to Ellis Island. We […]
Trip to Pollo a La Brasa Misti Restaurant
Today in class we went on a trip with Sr. Johnson and we went to a Peruvian restaurant. There were a few dishes that we got to try. Mrs. Edwards split us into groups that would be at our table. At my table was, Karine, Avery, Kate, and Dani. I had a great time trying […]
Coming up with inquiry questions and sub questions (#2)
It has been a while since I had come up with my topic, Amazon. After researching I couldn’t decide what I should focus on in Amazon. We went to the lab last week and I talked with Mr. Casal, and Mrs. Edwards.We had options we came up with an idea involving Mark Bezos but I […]