Recently, for my capstone project I went to Google for my site visit. My mom’s friends friend works at Google so we got an invitation to go there as guests. First, we had a little tour of the building, and then we would go to a place, sit down and talk. My brother had interview questions with him so he talked with her for a while. I also got to ask some questions, which helped me a lot with answering some of my questions. Then we had dinner there and noticed that you had a lot of freedom at Google as long as you are getting work done. After that we kept touring so I had a lot of time to do ask questions and learn more things. I thought the site visit to Google was really fun and educational and helped me with my project.
Monthly Archives: May 2019
Mixtures And Solutions
Hello and welcome back to my blog. Recently we started a new science unit in our class. It’s called mixtures and solutions. We learn about mixtures and solutions and we do experiments and watch educational videos on the topic. Then we got our materials and our ingredients. Salt, water, gravel, and diatomaceous earth(DE). We had to mix 2 of the ingredients and try to separate them. We had 2 charts, one was easily separated and one was not easily separated. After the experiment, we watched an educational video. The next day we had science stations, which is where you have a lot of activities to do, and you could choose the order you want to do them in. After some time with the stations, we moved on to watch another educational video. That was the last time we did and science experiment on mixtures and solutions, and I’m excited for the next one.
Capstone Blog Post 2
Recently, for our Capstone project we made main inquiry questions. A main inquiry question is a question related to your topic that you want to find out the answer of. For example, if your topic is the violin, your main inquiry question could be how violins have changed over time. My topic was robotics, so my main inquiry question was how the structure and functions of robots have changed over time. After we made our main inquiry questions, we had to make sub-questions. Sub-questions are basically smaller, more specific questions based of of your main inquiry question. We had to make 5+ sub-questions and have Mrs.Robert check them. The process was not very difficult because of a tool called the curriculum wheel. As I explained before, I made a lot of questions and chose a few of them as my sub-questions. But, we had to pick the best questions. We couldn’t pick any question and be done. Then we wrote the questions on a google doc and waited for Mrs.Robert to call you to check your questions. Personally, I’m really nervous because I don’t think my questions are good enough. Even so, things can still turn around.
Capstone Blog Post 1
A few days ago, we were assigned the Capstone project. We had to pick a topic and research it a lot, and after a month or so of preparation, we have to present it in some way. The first step in the process was to pick a topic and a backup topic. We got to pick a topic only we were interested and do whatever we wanted unless it wasn’t approved. I was really interested in robotics, and I also liked gemstones a lot so I picked Robotics as my topic and gemstones as a backup topic. After that we had to generate some questions using a curriculum wheel, which is a circle made up of many categories such as science, math , art, music, economics, and a few more. we had to generate our questions based off of the different categories. If we were done we would wait for Mrs. Robert to check our questions, and then we would pick our favourites. We also did some pre research on our topics. Personally, I’m not very excited about Capstone, but this is just the beginning of the process so things might turn around.