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I am in the middle of working on my capstone project. I have just finished my interview. The interview might have been the most challenging part of my project so far because I was contacting people all over the world and I was contacting people that were complete strangers to me so I was all over the place. Here is how it went down.

The first thing I had to do was find someone to interview. This process was not so complicated because my mother has connections with the U.N. After 3 or 4 days we found someone that worked for the Green Climate Fund. I was a bit disappointed in this because I wanted someone who worked directly for the U.N. so I could ask them questions about any of the goals, not just one.  I wanted to just ask my mom to ask the person from the Green Climate Fund but then in class, I found out that we had to write a request to interview someone.

The email requests did not have to be long so I finished that in a few minutes. When I got home that day my mom sent my email. We got the results a few days after. Waiting was very anxious because I felt I needed to complete everything fast.  I completed the interview efficiently and took notes on all the answers but when I ended the zoom I realized I had not been recording. I was disappointed because my notes had not been the best. After the interview, I read over my notes and edited them a bit to make more sense. Now I am waiting to start my script and hoping that my capstone project will turn out well.

Close to the end of 5th grade, all 5th graders in the Scarsdale Schools District have to participate in a project called Capstone. This project is where you pick a topic to research and you research it and eventually present it in front of all the 5th grade parents. To start the project the first thing I had to do was pick my topic. This was very challenging because at first, I thought I had so many options in my head but I later realized that I really didn’t. The first topic I wanted to do was global warming. After looking at different aspects of the topic I realized I wanted to do something more original like The U.N. Sustainable Development Goals.

After I had my topic I looked at each goal and came up with some questions about each goal. This did not get me very far so what I did instead was come up with questions about the goals in general. What I came up with was How well are the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals being executed? Once I had this main question, coming up with the subquestions was pretty easy. I chose 3 goals for my subquestions. How is the U.N. helping solve poverty? How is the U.N. taking action on climate change? How is the U.N. bringing clean water to everywhere? These were very simple questions but they are effective questions.

So far, I feel I’m making great progress on my project and I am excited to see how it turns out.

 

Yesterday I watched a National Geographic called Jane. It was about Jane Goodall. I liked the film and learned lots of new things. One of them is that Chimpanzees the animals she studied demonstrate their feelings sort of like humans do and that they spend hours cleaning themselves. Although at the begining of the movie I thought it was slow and boring because it was all step by step unlike in a movie. Overall I liked watching the movie Jane. 

I think that teaching chrome music lab to my buddie was fun because for once I was the one teaching my buddie. I also think it was fun because we got to just relax and make music and share it with each other. I really liked doing this project with my buddie even though it was a little hard to teach my buddie how to use chrome music lab. Overall I really liked this project and would like to do it again.

Dear Ms.Boyer,

 

Today I will be introducing you to the character Ruth Handler. She was the person who created Barbie dolls. I think to do that she would have to be very creative because Barbie is so popular so she had to make sure it stayed popular she had to make sure there were new clothing/hair coming up all the time and she was the person who had to do that alot. I think another trait she has is hard-working. I think that because at first her store only sold jewelry and plastic candles but she worked hard enough to be able to turn her company into a famous toy company that was very successful! I think another important trait Ruth Handler has is passion and perseverance. I think that because she never gave up on her dreams of creating dolls that were not just for playing but for being role models for girls. Ruth wanted Barbies to be an influence for girls to tell them they can be anything they want to be. I hope  this information was helpful.

 

yours sincerely,

Isabella

 

 

 

Once upon a time there was a rich man who loved listening to music. He was always very mad. He took pills to make him happy again but he became too happy and exploded. When he came back to life he landed in Egypt at midnight. Once he was in Egypt, he started to cry so he threw a ball up in the air and it made him feel a little bit better. The wanted to get back to his mansion so he took a job as a weightlifter. After he had enough money he bought an iPhone and called his servant. His servant came to pick him up in a parashoot. And he lived a normal life.

 

Today in science we made maglev trains. A maglev train is a train that levitates by magnetic repulsion. I worked in a group. Our idea for the train track was to put strip magnets with disk magnets on top and the same thing for the train.

That did not work. The problem was that the magnets on the track were flipping over and attracting. So we asked for help. That is when we got the idea to tape the disk magnets on so it would not flip over. It did not work. At that point I was starting to think we could not do it but I tried one more time. That time we took off all the strip magnets on everything. 

Sadly when we tested it did not work. I feel like on these tries my group needed to help each other more. Finally on the fifth try we got it. On that try we did everything with strip magnets the track had about 8 magnets divided equally on each side. On the train we did the same thing but only with 2 magnets divided equally. 

The next step was putting weight on the train. My group wanted to start off easy so we started with two. Eventually we made our way to thirty six weights. Overall I liked this experiment.

Today in science we made maglev trains. A maglev train is a train that levitates by magnetic repulsion. I worked in a group. Our idea for the train track was to put strip magnets with disk magnets on top and the same thing for the train.

 

That did not work. The problem was that the magnets on the track were flipping over and attracting. So we asked for help. That is when we got the idea to tape the disk magnets on so it would not flip over. It did not work. At that point I was starting to think we could not do it but I tried one more time. That time we took off all the strip magnets on everything. 

 

Sadly when we tested it did not work. I feel like on this experiment my group needed to help each other more. Next time, I hope we can do it.