Cultural Universals is Politics, Cultural Arts, Beliefs, Social Aspects and
The leader of my house is my mom and dad. Most of our rules are for safety. For example, don’t open the door if someone knocks and I don’t know them and a grown-up isn’t home. Also, we don’t pick-up phone calls if we don’t know the number. My dad works at a insurance company. We have a TOYOTA van and a BMW. My family celebrates Chinese New Year and Christmas. Every time it’s Chinese New Year, my brother and I both get $100. I am Asnic Chinese. The sports I do are Martial Arts, swimming, tennis, softball and basketball. I play the piano. I want to play the viola or the cello. My school is Heathcote. We have about 30 hours a week.
I chose these land marks on the map because they are part of my life. I live in Scarsdale. My mom sometimes goes to Lord & Taylor to shop for clothes. My mom and I sometimes go to Balducci’s to get a sandwich. Sometimes I go to the Crossway to play tennis. My school is Heathcote and it’s located on Palmer Ave. One time, I went to the Greenburgh Nature Center. My brother is going to go to the Scarsdale High School soon.
Our first design on the track was to use strip magnets, 4-6 each and in a row to fill the track. Our first design on our train was to use disc magnets, 1-2 each and put them on opposite sides.
One of our problems was that the train magnets weren’t lined up with the track magnets so we lined up the magnets on the train with the magnets on the track. We looked at the track and the train to do it.
For our final design, for the tracks, we used strip magnets like our first design, 6 of them and 3 on the long sides. For the train, we used strip magnets instead of disc magnets, 2 of them and 1 on two opposite sides. Our model worked because our magnets on the train lined up with the magnets on the track, our train levitated and our train moved across the track with the rocks in a paper cup safely and efficiently.
We were excited in the beginning because we never made a model of a maglev train. We were frustrated a lot in the middle and the end of the process because sometimes our magnets attracted when it was suppose to repel. And also, a lot of times, the train couldn’t levitate across the track.
You might think that all technology is electronics but you’re wrong. What makes technology is stuff that people created to solve problems and make things easier and helpful to do.
My object is a paperclip. It’s bendable and at both of the ends, they’re pointy. The paperclip is also really light, it’s smooth and colored. The paperclip is technology because it helps to put things together so if you have a few pieces of paper, you just slip it on in the middle and the pieces of paper will stay together. It makes life better because it helps organize things and put pieces of paper together.
The paperclip is made out of metal.
This is the paperclip I had.
What we did today that worked was that we got the magnets on the track to line up with the magnets on the train. Before we figured out that we had to do that, our magnets on our track attracted with the magnets on the train. We needed like poles and since the magnets are not labeled, we needed to find a system. So we marked the tape on the magnets with stars so we would know which side would repel and which side would attract. We also got the train to levitate a little higher with some more strip magnets.
What we did today that failed was that we tried to put some magnets on the side the train was going to on the attract side and a few magnets on the beginning of the track on the repel side. We thought the magnets on the repel side would give a push to the train and the train would get attracted to the magnets on the attract side so the train would move there, but that didn’t work. I learned from my failure that we needed stronger magnetic forces.
My goals for the next session is to get the train to move to the other side with a slight push and for the train to not tip over.
This is my group with our maglev model.
A maglev train is a train that works on magnets. It levitates and goes really fast. The maglev train levitates because of magnets. The magnets on the track repels with the magnets on the train. My group’s idea was to put 4-6 strip magnets on the track and 1-2 disc magnets on the train.
Today, we made our train levitate. Before, we got it to levitate but then one of our group members wanted to tape the magnet on the train and after she did that, we couldn’t make it levitate again. But we couldn’t make the maglev train move with a slight push.
The challenging part was to make the train levitate, then it was making the train move with a slight push. What worked well was that my group got to make our train levitate on the train track. Also, we all worked together so that was the best part. I think this activity is really fun.
This is my group’s sketch for our maglev train. Mrs. Maglevs is our group name.
