Monthly Archives: September 2019

Post #3- Soldering

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    When I walk into class everyone is in a circle around a table and has safety goggles. I was so excited to see everyone with googles because I know were gonna do something exciting. After I put my googles on too, I look what everyone is looking at and I see wire that was made into a design and I look at it and my jaw drops, how does anyone do that.

   We go back to our tables and our teacher is going around the room handing out a piece of paper, when I got the paper I was so confused, all I see is circles on a piece of paper. He tells us that we have to make designs out of five lines for homework, oh that’s not that hard I tell myself. When I get home I’m so excited to do my tech homework but when I start I’m totally stuck. I didn’t  know what to draw but I came up with ideas like, basketball, flower and other things. I finally got the handle of it, I was going so fast. When I walk into school the next day I’m so curious what were gonna do next for the unit. I walk into tech and I’m so bummed because I see on the board that we should go to the Vectornator app, we went there a few days ago and it was were we could draw in a circle thing. 

  When we open the app our teacher tells us to take out the sheet from last night and I was really confused but so happy. It turns out were gonna pick a design that we liked and draw it in Vectornator. I picked the basketball I made because it has 4 lines and I thought it would be easy, it was really helpful that before we started my tech teacher told us how to straighten our lines so it looks good. After I finished my design on vectornator I had to print it to the Library, the Library is a far walk. 

  The next day I’m so curious what were gonna do in tech class, when I walk in I see everyone in a line at my teachers desk so I go to the end of the line and I notice that everyone is getting wire probably to make their design. When I go back to my table I shaped the wire into my basketball but when I’m in the middle of my design I realize I don’t have enough wire so I had to I start again. The next time I did it I asked for extra wire so I could finish it. The second time I did it it took two classes but I finally finishes it and now it’s time for soldering!

 

 

 

Post #2- Electric Effluvia

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    When I walk into the tech classroom, I look at the smart board we’re it tells us what we have to do at the begging of class. I get to my seat and open up my iPad go to the website and log in, when I look the screen I see what it says on then board so it’s probably connected with the smart board. We started talking about an experiment, i’m happy because we never done an experiment before just talked about how the class is and works . He explained about what we are going to do today with pictures and words, were making a electric scope. An electric scope basically is, “The electric effluvia differ from the air, and as air is the earth’s effluvium, so electric bodies have their own distinctive effluvia.” After the lesson about the electric scope I was really excited to begin.

    Were doing this project with our tables, one person has to get the electric scope from our table, after that we started. This is what the electric scope looked like=

 

Before we try the electric scope we have to use our cloth to clean the pole for it to work. Now it’s time to begin, we are supposed to put the pole near the spiral but cant put it on just next to it without touching it and the paper in the jar is supposed to move. Someone at my table tries it right away and it works and then the next person tries and it works, it’s so cool. Now I give it a go and it doesn’t work I’m so annoyed so I use the cloth and rub it a lot and then I try again and it works it was so weirdbut cool. 

    After everyone tried it multiple times our teacher comes around putting papers and I’m so confused then he said to do the same thing but put your pole over the papers. I rub the cloth a lot on my pole because of what happen last time. It’s my time to go first, I’m curious if it’s gonna work. I put the pole over and the papers move around and stick to my pole, it’s so cool. Overall it was a interesting  and a fun experience.

 

 

Post #1- Breakout

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           Walking into tech for the third day in a row i’m So curious what we are going to do or learn about. I walk in with my iPad in my hands seeing all the kids sitting a their seat so I go over to my seat. After talking about technology for a little my tech teacher said we are going to do something called breakout, all I was thinking is this seems fun. He split us up in teams by our table I had a really good team.  After all of that he starts to explain how to play, we have to find clues around the whole room after we find the clues we look at what the clue is so we can get the lock open, there are four locks 3 for each team and one the two teams try to race to get the code so you have a better start.

          Now it’s time for questions if someone didn’t  understand they could ask a question, I had no questions. All the questions were answered so now it’s  time to start, we have 30 minutes on the clock. “READY SET GO” were off the teams looking all around the room trying to look for the clues. 15 minutes have passed, 20 minutes have past and no one has found any clues, finally someone finds a clue but wait their on the other team. My team is getting a little frustrated but we are not giving up. There is just one place we haven’t look so I go over to the tables and I noticed that on only one table there is a sheet of paper but not on the others that has to be a clue so I take it. We have to gather all of the clues before we can solve them, we have 2 more left not counting the one we share with the other team.                                                                             

        Both of the teams have one clue, after the first one we started to get the hang of this. We got the second one then the third so we ask our teacher if we can have a hint because were aloud two hints he, gave us a hint to one of the papers but we still couldn’t figure it out. When I look at the other clues I realize on one of the clues there are ghost on everyone one of the sheet so I look and there is 3 numbers. I go over to the lock were everyone is at which is the one we share with other team, no one is getting it so I probably won’t get it but I try anyways. I am so nervous because time is running out so I put the code fast and pull the top of it, and there it is I unlocked the code I was beaming with excitement. I open it up and see a flashlight and I know what that is for but my teammates already got it and there is another one completed. With only five minutes left, we have to get the other code but in a second the buzzer beeped and time was out, it turned out we tied with the other team. Overall it was a great and fun experience and I hope we do something again like this.