Category Archives: 5th Grade

#3 Capstone blog post

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In my final project, I have 15 slides and it takes me about five minutes for my voiceover. I have Apple TV so that is good because I can present it on my TV. I think that my final presentation is really good and I have all the right pictures for the slides. I have said everything that I learned about my subject in the amount of time required which is good so that I don’t have to narrow it down because I don’t think I could have left out anything. 

The answer to my main inquiry question consists of several parts. I think in each category the best weapons are a sword, pike, shovel, bow and arrow, bigger round shield, and a flaming arrow. I am proud of my presentation, which is a TED talk. I chose this for my presentation style because I wanted to be seen and I didn’t want the slides to move automatically. I think that the best part of making the presentation was the prompt and the transitions because they really made my presentation come to life. Something that was great was that I didn’t have any problems making my final project. I am looking forward to sharing it with my class because I think it looks good and I think my project is interesting.

 

#2 Capstone blog post

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When we do Capstone we have to interview someone. I interviewed a college teacher at Fordham university. I think that he was a very good person to interview because he is a teacher at Fordham. This is good because Fordham is a very good medieval studies college. I also learned a-ton of information. I had eight google doc pages full of his awnseres to my questions! He said a lot of stuff that none of my websites had even said once, like:

 

  1. A sword is a very good weapon because it is simple and very maneuverable.
  2. Digging under castle walls is a great way to destroy a wall because you will put sticks under the wall once you get there and then light the wood on fire and the wall will come crashing down.
  3. It will take months and months until the army that is besieging a castle is ready to actually storm a castle because you want to try and break down the walls as much as you can and make the people inside hungry and exhausted.
  4. A bow and arrow is a great weapon because it can fire hundreds of arrows in about an hour while a crossbow can only shout about 20 in an hour.
  5. A crossbow is a great weapon because it doesn’t require strength to load, but a bow and arrow does.
  6. A pike is a great weapon while defending a castle because it can push people down from ladders. A pike is also great against people riding on horses because it can hit them before they can hit you.
  7.  A round shield is an earlier type of shield used by vikings, that size of shield would go well with a hand axe or a sword. A smaller round shield is great for block short sword strokes.
  8. If there are a bunch of people on a castle wall all shooting arrows all at the same time nothing can stop that, it’s like rain falling on your head except it is very harmful.
  9. Fights under ground will sometimes take weeks and weeks.
  10.  You can use a rectangular shield to push people back or hit them to the ground.

 

At the end of the meating I thought it was a huge success and that  it was very helpful because he said things that the websites I was using didn’t even mention, this was good because I now know more things that I could add to my presentation!

launching and Graphing rocket 2

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Launching 

When we were launching rocket 2 we had jobs like when we did our 1st launch. I was the rocket pumper so basically I got to pump air into the box with a bike pump. Every teem filled it to the same amount, 50 psi. It was mostly fun and a little bit hard. It was hard because it felt like there was a lot of resistance.  

 

Graphing 

After the launch all the teems had to graph the height of the rockets based on what the clonamoter readers said it was. The clononomer readers saw how high it went in clononomers, but we transferred it into feet. Our rocket went 139 feet which was a little disappointing because our first one went higher (the first one went 156 feet).

Designing and building rocket 3

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Designing

When we designed our 3rd rocket we changed the fins but left the nose cone and the body the same. We changed the fins this time because for our second rocket we could only change one thing and we changed the body from the thin tube to the thicker tube, but we also wanted to make the fins bigger, so now we can have both on one rocket. We decided to keep the body size and the nose cone size the same because we think that did better.

 

Building 

When we built our rocket we tried to make it the same exact thing as the design so that it would be accurate to what we wanted. I feel like this time there weren’t as many mistakes, I think that is because we had a lot of experience since we did it a lot. we also made the nose cone hot glued and taped.

Designing and Building Rocket #1

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Intro

Designing and building our first rocket was really fun because we got to be like engineers and design our rocket to be successful when we launch the rocket. It was also really fun because we where challenged to do our best when designing and building our Rocket, or else our Rocket would not go as high.

The Research  

Researching wasn’t that hard because I found a really good website called nasa.gov. It had so much good information about rockets and what they need, like: rockets need to be aerodynamic, they need to have a sharp nose cone and the wings need to be the same size and weight.

The Design 

Designing our first rocket was really fun since we got to do it on a google drawing. The actual design was it had three fins a pointy nose cone and we got to pick a body size, there was a small tube and a big tube. We chose the small tube because we thought that it would force the rocket up more.

Cooperation 

Our team was mostly really good at cooperating with each other. The only time we were not so good at cooperating was when we would make two things, but we only needed one thing and we would argue which one was better.

Building Our Rocket

when we built our rocket we made it really close to the design as possible. When we built it we used hot glue for putting the fins on and th nose cone on and we used tape over that to make sure it was completely on. We also put tin foil on the nose cone and on the fins because we thought that it would be smoother.

 

 

Designing and Building Rocket #2

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Designing Rocket #2

When we designed our second rocket we could only change one thing, we changed the tube from the smaller tube, to the bigger tube we think that this will help the rocket go higher.  

Building Rocket #2

Building our second rocket was actually not that hard because we knew how to do it from when we built our first rocket. I think that this time we also did it faster because we had experiences from when we built our first rocket.