In technology this week we learned about cams and watched a movie about them also. We are making them out of paper, in the future I think we will make stuff out of wood and use different tools.
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Technology week 5
This week in tech we started and finished cranks that will work as light switches. We got to color build glue and drill them in the process. I thunk mine will look very cool when its done because of the colors I chose and I hope it will work.
Technology week 7
This week in technology we watched a little bit of Hugo and learned about minerals and space. The movie Hugo was kind of interesting but I thought it was a bit slow. We did a couple Nearpods about minerals and gold and how rare it was. We also learned a space and how our solar system works.
Technology week 6
This week we finished submitting he videos of our cranks and brought them home. It was cool because they worked really well. We also got to use new tools like mallets and drill presses also sanders.
Technology week 3
This week in technology we started to watch a movie about machines and gears. I also finished my cam, it kind of works now I just have to submit a video of it. We also started learning about gears and how a Roman ship reck was found and there was gears in it.
Technology week 2
This week in technology we started to fold and finish cutting the paper shapes we aloos started to make are pistons. We also filled out a survey talking about what light switch we have for a later assighnment that we will make a light switch out of wood.
Technology week 1
This week we started learning about simple machines and learned how to use a slice cutter. It’s cool learning how to use a slice. Cutter since i never used one before. We also learned about things like wheels and how helpful they are. We also cut out practice sheets of paper with slice cutters and sizers.
Capstone 3
The Capstone project was long and we did lots of research. It was interesting interviewing people and I learned a lot about my topic. As a final project I had to use Screencastify and talk about my slideshow. Well, while it was running it took lots of tries to get it right. Then we put it into a YouTube video and made all of them one big video.
This unit was not very hard. The hardest part is writing blog posts. I liked that we would not have to spend the whole day on it and that we could do other things after working.
I liked not having school also because I could take breaks when I wanted to and I did not have to do all the work at the same time.
Here is a link to my Project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgEfoMdh8iE&list=PLB96r9gj6B-Y-TwRAkZUa93-QMCVWtKwa&index=52&t=0s
Capstone 2
I think that my interview was a big success and went really well. The first two questions I felt like I was in a script but then it turned into a conversation and it was interesting to talk to him. I interviewed Brett Hauser the CEO of the company Cision It was cool because I learned about his personal life and his job and company. The interview helped a lot because I learned a lot about my topic for example I learned that Cision is trying to spread awareness about electric cars. And now that we are writing scripts it’s helping me when I’m making the slides. The interview was very cool and fun. And it turns out that who I interviewed lived next to us in the city. And it was fun to talk to him because we ended up just having a conversation. I chose him to interview because he is the CEO and because we already new him.
Capstone blog post 1
In class, we are doing a project called Capstone. For Capstone we find a topic that interests us then we do research on the topic. For the first week, we chose a topic and started to research our questions. My question was what will cars be powered by in the future. My topic is cars of the future. I made up five questions then researched and answered them. This is a fun project because we get to research a topic interesting to us.
For example, my topic is “cars of the future” and I’m very interested in that topic. Now I get to do research on a topic I’m interested in learning about. To help us organize your research we have a slideshow where we wrote down our sub-questions and answers to them.