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Spreadsheets: Wellness Log

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For this week’s assignment, I had to make a spreadsheet with a chart on it.  I made a P.E. wellness log and I had to fill in how long I did certain activities for.  I wrote about how long i walked for, how long i rode my bike for and how much baseball I played. On my spreadsheet I put the activities on one side and my total hours for each day on the bottom. On the other side, I put the average time I was doing the activity for the week.  This spreadsheet helped me to stay organized and track my exercise for the week.

 

Swift Playgrounds 3 (“Answers”)

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For this week, I had to make a coding project with questions. My questions are what is  your favorite baseball team, who is your favorite player on that team, and what stadium does your team play at. It was challenging writing my code directly into the platform Instead of tapping on it because I messed up a few times and I did not know what I did wrong, but then I figured it out. Also I found this interesting because I could write surveys and gather information with this skill in the future.

 

Swift Playgrounds 2

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The puzzle focused on the coding concept, creating a new function. What I found challenging when I did the puzzle was that I wrote the code in the wrong box and I thought it was right. Finally I realized my mistake and put the code in the right box. The code worked perfect in the end. Overall coding is challenging for me, because I have not done much coding before.

 

 

 

About Me

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My About Me project is all about me! I used Tynker to code my project. In the beginning  I found it pretty easy, well I was wrong. I added actors and music. The actors explain who I am and some of my favorite things. I used one of the Looks blocks that made a speech bubble. I haven’t used Tynker that much before and I think the platform is pretty neat and getting a bit easier.

Computer science is changing everything

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I found the lettuce bot interesting because who would think a computer could help people plant food? The lettuce bot is a big invention because it is a cheaper and faster way to plant lettuce. The lettuce bot plants 1.5 million seeds an hour, a human can not plant that many seeds in an hour. It seems like the lettuce bot does not need to take breaks, while humans do. I learned that computers can help people more than I imagined and that will help make life MUCH easier.

Blog Post #3

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For my Capstone project I did a video. I did a video because I did not need to memorize the script and I was comfortable using this format. I also did two other videos this year which gave me experience making videos. I enjoyed making my final Project because I did so much work and loved learning more about Pearl Harbor, which has always been fascinating to me. I also enjoyed finding pictures because they were historical which I find interesting. One problem I had was that my video was too long because I had so much information so I needed to get rid of some slides. I was looking forward to sharing my project because I wanted people to enjoy it and learn from it. Overall I think my video was an accomplishment and I learned a tremendous amount of history about Pearl Harbor. 

 

This is my video:

 

Blog Post #2

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For my Capstone interview I interviewed Daniel Stiel, a social studies teacher at White Plains High School, who is also my dad. I interviewed my dad because he’s an expert on my topic Pearl Harbor. He’s been teaching about Pearl Harbor for the last 20 years. My process for setting up my interview was finding out when my dad was available to do the interview. He is busy because he is teaching from home. The questions I asked my dad were about the causes and effects of Pearl Harbor because that is my main inquiry question.The most interesting thing I learned from my interview was about the Japanese American internment camps. Some of the areas where the American government put the Japanese Americans were in horse stables. I am lucky during the interview process I didn’t face any challenges. Overall, I think my interview was successful.

 

Blog Post #1

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My capstone topic is Pearl harbor and my main inquiry question is “what were the causes and effects of the attack on Pearl Harbor?”. Capstone is my final 5th grade research project so I hope I make it good. It was helpful for me to talk with my dad and Mrs Van Camp when I was choosing my inquiry question. Talking out my thoughts helped me expand my ideas. In the beginning I had another main inquiry question which was ”How did the Japanese plan the attack on Pearl Harbor and why was it successful?” I changed the question because it was too narrow and I could not create a project with so little information.  It was challenging coming up with the main inquiry question because it took several tries to come up with the question. It took more tries because my first question was too narrow. As a learner, I have learned that when I study a topic that I find interesting the work is easier for me. I think during capstone, I will have a lot more motivation to do my work because my topic is interesting to me.