Making my plan

In the past week in tech we have been making plans for our wood work. During this process we discussed some ideas of what we can make. Some of which include a mask holder, a phone stand, a picture frame and more. I decided to make a box that can hold many of my unorganized items. After choosing what we were going to make we needed to make a sketch. The sketch included a drawing of what you’re going to make, the measurement of each piece of wood, a list of tools and materials that you need to complete your project, and the process of how you will complete your project. This week I will start building my project and I can’t wait to see how it will turn out.

Exploring Wood

Recently in tech we started to play around with wood. I began to notice how wood works. If you break the piece of wood vertically it leaves a smooth cut, but if you break the wood horizontally it is very messy and you can easily get a splinter. Eventually we got to cut the wood with a small knife like saw. If you cut the wood vertically or horizontally it cut nice and smooth while if you cut the wood diagonally it was harder to cut and it took longer. Overall having never explored wood the way I did in class I think it was a good start to making things with wood.

Blog Post #9

This is my last Tech blog post. Today we had our last zoom before we move on to art. We did a zoom based off of what we have learned and there were some Disney movie questions which were fun. Over this quarter we have learned about a lot but unfortunately did not get to do our projects in school that I’m bummed about. But overall tech was fun.

Blog Post #8

The quarter is ending on April 17 which is soon. We have started to learn about Mechanical Engineering which is stuff like batteries. We have been having zooms on Tuesday’s and Friday’s. We have also been doing projects.

Blog Post #7

In tech elearning we have been learning about atoms and so much more.  Personally I did not know that much about atoms to begin with but when we did this lesson online I felt that I learned a lot through the videos rather than in person. Atoms are pretty interesting, they contain a dense nucleus which is surrounded by a cloud of electrons, which contains a negative charge.

Blog Post #6

Unfortunately we are still doing elearning, but that doesn’t mean that tech is still not fun. We have been doing edpuzzles, Nearpods, and so much more. We have been learning about mechanical engineering, atoms, and so much more.

Online Tech #5


Since we have been home the past couple of weeks we have been having tech online!! We have doing something called EdPuzzle which is online lessons. We watch a video and throughout the video we are asked questions about the topic. We are currently learning about atoms, which are really fun to learn about especially through video form. I can’t to keep learning about this topic!!

Starting Jewelry #4

In tech we are taking a break from our automatons and starting jewelry! We are working on necklaces are we are making the charm during our classes. We got a sheet of paper with 15 circles to sketch out designs then we numbered them 1-15 based of of our favorite designs. We have the basic circle to our charms, here is what it looks like:

My #1 choice for a charm is a little graphic ocean wave. I can’t wait to see what the finished necklace charm looks like!

The Building of a Automata #2

This week in Tech we started building automatons!!! I am really excited because this is our first project in tech this quarter. We recently built our cam in an app called Vectornator and then they were printed out with a lazer cutter. Here is how it turned out:

Here is the cam on Vectornator:

Here is the cam cut out:

 

 

I am loving this project so far and I can’t wait to see what comes next!!