Spreadsheets 2

From this google form, I learned a lot of different things. For example, I learned that most peoples favorite NY sports team is the Yankee’s. I put for mine, that it was the nets. In this graph, it shows that 43.4 % of people like the Yankee’s best as their favorite NY sports team.

Also, one of the charts shows what elementary school they went to. The graph shows, that it is almost split between the 5 Scarsdale public elementary schools, and that there are also a lot of people who went to other schools.

Lastly, I learned that a lot of people have a dog. 52.2 % of people have dogs! The least amount of people have birds. 0 people, have birds.

 

Spreadsheets 1

I chose Hawaii. Hundreds of different seashells can be found in Hawaii’s waters. Some questions that I have for Hawaii, are: How big is Hawaii? The answer to this question, is 28,313 sq. Km. My next question, is how many people live in Hawaii right now? The answer to this question, is 1,415,872 people!  Next, how much of the population is under 18 years old ? The answer to this question is, 21.2 %! I looked up information, about how many people in this country are under 18 years old? The percent for the whole United States, was 22.3% of people are under 18 years old. The most amount of people under 18 years old, is Utah with 29.0 %. The least amount of people under 18 years old, is Washington D.C, which has 18.2 % of people under 18. I learned, that the Yankees had their least amount of home runs in 1913. Dogs are the most common household pet and cats have the highest population. Gerbils are the least amount of household pets, and have the least population.

Spreadsheets

I learned, that you can calculate averages, add things, and subtract things in spreadsheets. I also, learned that you can sort things by A – Z or Z – A. Also, sorting the information from least to greatest or greatest to least, because you can get information, like how many more of something a certain data set has more than the other. Also, I learned that you can insert pictures, change fonts, and change the colors of different columns. Also, something that was really cool is that you can press the chart button, and it will automatically make a chart for you.

Music Video

I think a challenge in my music video, was getting all of the sprites back to their normal position whenever I start the video over. I still want to figure out, how you can change one sprite to t he next one, but making it start over every time. Some projects that I likes, were the ones with music, and sound effects. I liked these, because I think that the music was a good part that made it better.

Animate your Name

I used my letters in my name, to change color, and for them to bounce off the walls when it hits them. I think that what was challenging about this activity, is that I hade to code 5 different letters, and not just one sprite! I think that what was surprising about  this activity, was that you can add so many new things that I never knew about before! For example, it is cool that you can add music to the sprites and the backgrounds! I liked the other projects, because it was cool how a lot of them used different types of letters, and came together to make one! It was really cool!

Technology blog post #9

This is the last week in technology. There were nine weeks, and we are on the last one. We did many different projects, but my favorite was making a breadboard circuit. I liked it because it was cool to see how the 9 volt battery made the circuit work, and how you needed to use the right resister. Also, it was cool how the LED light lit up, because you connected them to different wires.

My least favorite project was using the wire cutter to strip the wires. I think this because it really hurt my hands when I had to strip the wires. I really liked technology, because we learned how so many different things worked, like gears and atoms.

Technology blog post #8

This week for homework, we had to make a crank. The crank was harder to make then the cam, because it had more complicated steps. The first step was to cut everything out. We cut the inside of the box out with a paper cutter, so that it would be easier to cut. Next, we put the box together. The next step was to put together all of the little boxes that will go into the cube. One that was done, I glued it to make it into a crank. I put that into the cube, and then I attached a handle on the side.

I think that the hardest part was putting the small cubes together. I think this because I could not find a video on how to do that step, so I had to figure it out on my own.

Technology blog post #7

Today for homework, we made atomatos. We did this, by cutting out pieces of paper. Then we glued them together. What it does, is when you turned the spinny thing On the outside, the snail shell would also turn. This would make it so that the bar at the top goes up and down. We kept one side of the box open, so that we can see what is happening inside the box. We had to use a paper cutter to cut the little squares and circles out of the middle. Here is a picture of mine.

 

Technology blog post #6

This week, we made a parallel circuit. It was similar to the circuit we made last week, except a little more complicated. Last week, we only used 1 LED light. This time, we used 3.  Also, we used a different resister and a different amount of striped wires. Last week, we used only 2 stripped wires. This week we used 6. This is because we needed to connect all of the LED lights to the 9 volt battery, so we needed more wires.

Technology blog post #5

Today we learned about breadboards. Breadboards are little boards, that you can make circuits with. Yesterday, I made a breadboard circuit. There were a lot of steps to this circuit. First, I had to connect the battery cap to the 9 volt battery. Then, we had to put the 2 wires on the battery cap into the Breadboard. After I attached that, I put the LED light into the breadboard. I added the resister into the breadboard, making sure it was in the same row as the LED light was in.  Then, to finish the circuit, I added the wires that we stripped last week, into the breadboard, and it worked!