Passion Project #1-Baking a Cake

In science class we are doing passion projects, basically you have to choose a passion you desire for and you do a project on it. For passion projects I was gonna do soccer because I love it but I thought that would be to hard, I decided to do baking a cake. I love to bake cakes and I’m really good at making them and I make them a pretty decent amount of times.

Rube Goldberg #5- Our Success

After all of our attempts we finally got a success we were so happy,  we thought we were never going to be able to do it. I feel like we got our success because we pushed the ball really hard and we had the jenga and dominos spread out, like they weren’t on top of each other because most of our Rube Goldberg is hitting stuff into stuff. You should of saw us when we did our task for our Rube goldberg we were jumping up like crazy it felt like it was the best thing in our world. It was really frustrating at some points because sometimes we would complete a task but not put one of our steps in the Rube Goldberg but we didn’t put it as a fail or a success.

 

We honestly thought we would never get a success, but we were wrong. We only went to Summer’s house like 4 times so it was good we got our Rube goldberg so early because we all have very busy schedule and we might have been still doing our Rube Goldberg right now if we haven’t of finish it so early. Also one time our rube goldberg we completed our task but forgot about the music but we finally got a success. Now I will be talking about the overall experience.

 

Rube Goldberg #4 Our Attempts

Me, Hannah and Summer knew that we were not going to get our Rube Goldberg on our first try but we were still going to give our best! Obviously we didn’t get it on our first try, sometimes we didn’t push the ball hard enough or the jenga or dominos were too close together. It only took us 6 tries not so bad. I feel that we should of made our Rube Goldberg a little more complex because the whole thing was things knocking something down to the other. I’m really proud of Summer and Hannah we did a amazing job!

 

We had a lot of different mistakes but they were small ones. Sometimes we forgot to put one of our steps when we were doing it. To be honest I thought we were going to have a lot more attempts, I was shocked that we only had 6 attempts I thought we were going to have like 18.  With our attempts I learned that if you don’t get your first attempt keep trying. Finally there was a success.

 

Rube Goldberg # 3 Sketch

 

We had to start building before we could do our sketch because we needed to know basically what we should do for our building. Hannah and I are going to start building while summer is going to do our sketch because Summer is better at writing and designing while Hannah and I are better at building stuff and making stuff . We did our sketch pretty late because we kept on changing our steps because stuff didn’t work or we did too much of the same thing and repeating our steps. After we knew basically what we were going to do we got straight to the sketch.

 

Summer’s mom got us a big piece of paper so we can show really what our rube goldberg is. Summer did step by step but then there was a problem when Summer was doing the sketch we messed up the American doll nail polish wasn’t strong enough so she had to redo that. Then we were on a roll until we had to change the whole thing because it didn’t work so we had to redo the WHOLE THING!!!!! Then we finally finished the sketch.

 

Rube Goldberg # 2: Building

 

When we got to Summer’s house we went to her attic because that’s where we are going to do it. We were stuck on our task but after a while we knew what we should do, make a ball fall into a basketball hoop. After we knew are task we went to the basement to get stuff for our rube goldberg. So when we went to the basement we wanted to use Caleb”s toy (Summer’s little brother) because we could get a lot of stuff. We used his toy cars, some of his tracks, his basketball hoop, his ball. After we got all our stuff we went upstairs.

 

After we got upstairs we started to build but we realized that we needed more steps because we only had 3 steps! Summer’s mom said that there was a box with all rube goldberg because Summer’s older sister stuff but we couldn’t find it, but then we realized that there was jenga tiles on the floor. Now we had 4 steeps 4 more to go! Summer had a small ball so we used that so now we are at 5 steps! Then we had magnetic tiles so we uses those for a tunnel. That was 6 steps we used a cardboard block thing, tape. That’s what we have so far.

 

Rube Goldeberg # 1: Our Plan

 

I’m doing my Rube Goldberg with Summer and Hannah were doing it at summers house. We were thinking we should use some of Summer’s little brothers toys. Basically a rube goldberg is a chain reaction one example is dominos  another example is knocking a tape roll all of those examples are chain reaction . Were doing it in summers attack we are using her brothers toys like a little car and we are using one of his race track. It’s a little hard to finish our sketch and everything because we are never free.  We could only do it at Summer’s house because she’s allergic to my Dog and Hannah’s cat. Today we are going to Summer’s house because we’re all free because my soccer is later and Summer’s plan got cancelled.  Are task is getting a basketball into a hoop I feel like we should do our rube goldberg a little more complex.

We are so excited to do our rube goldeberg when we went to summer’s house we got straight to work we were so excited to start a really fun activity. Right when we went upstairs we were totally stuck on our task we thought we would never be able to do it.

 

 

 

Rocketry Presentation

I think our team did pretty well but we could do a little better on not fidgeting. I had a great experience on our presentation it was fun to speak and also to see other groups I think our team did pretty well. All of my group mates did very well on speaking everyone was very clear and point forward. My favorite slide I did was my inspiration board I liked that one the most because it was long and I remember that slide a lot!  

The presentation was really great experience but it was a little scary speaking in front of the whole class and parents. Over all every group did a outstanding job with a lot of enthusiastic!  I really enjoy speaking in front of a crowd. Everyone in my group did really well on memorizing and no one was hesitating.

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Bye Bye Plastic Bags

We read the “Book of the Month, One Plastic Bag, by Miranda Paul is about a girl named Isatou Ceesay.  She really wants people to not use plastic bags because it is not good for the environment. She lived in Gambia is really beautiful.

We also watched a “TED Talk” about a team of sisters named Melati and Isabell Wijsen who made it their mission to get rid of plastic bags in Bali by the year 2018. Something that is really impressive is that they are only 20 years old and they reached their goal one year ahead of time!