Max and I decided what our plan should be. We drew a sketch of our plan which is supposed to be in Maxwell’s room. We’re going to use HexBug tracks, mini carts, Hot Wheels cars, Hot Wheels tracks, blocks, books, levers, a lot of dominoes, paper cups, string, etc. The final task will ultimately be turning off/on a light switch. We’re a little worried, though. I haven’t even been at his house yet! We didn’t really start yet. And two resources, a sketch/outline and three blog reflections are due Monday 4/4 the first day Max and I will meet! We will be cutting it close to finish is project before the deadline, but I think Max and I can do it.
Monthly Archives: March 2016
Rube Goldberg 3/22
On Monday 3/21, my original group Maxwell, Michael H., Ty and Carson. After school, we went to Ty’s house to brainstorm ideas. It turns out that we actually started building! We were kind of cheating because we used rigged dominoes from one of Ty’s games. But after a while, it started to get a little out of hand. Carson and Michael H. were not really doing any work, only Ty, Maxwell and I were really getting things done. So the next day, we decided to break up into groups of two or single groups. Max and I were the only double.
Westward Expansion Reflection
Our westward expansion unit was very fun. At first we researched the Gold Rush, the Transcontinental Railroad, the Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark, Erie Canal and the Telegraph. We had a “test” to write as much as we could on those topics. Then we broke into small groups to research different topics. Jordan, Max, Melanie and I worked on the Trail of Tears. We checked out books from the library, looked things up online and put all the information on a shared google document. We had to make a game to teach our classmates about our topic. Many of the other groups’ games weren’t really factual, ours wasn’t so good either.Then we had to write five questions for our test later. Hopefully kids will pass our part of the quiz!
Debates
What Ben, Sammy, Giselle and I were debating was whether we should be more focused on protecting humans or sharks. Giselle and I were on the sharks side. We had two debates in front of the class. To prepare for everything, our teacher, Mrs. Edwards gave us articles and links for us to look at and take notes on. Before we were ready, she made us fill in a graphic organizer to help us. After the two debates, she made us write a persuasive essay about our topic. I think our topic was really made for discussing. It was a really fun argument unit.
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News Event of 2015
I think the Star Wars news event will have a lasting effect on the world because Star Wars is important to so many people across the globe! Almost all my friends and everyone I know have seen or will see the movie: Star Wars/ The Force Awakens. If you haven’t seen the movie yet, then you have to!!!
NASA Conference Call
We used Vidyo to interview a NASA digital learning network person, Rachel Power. She gave us lots of information. One piece of information she gave us was that there is going to be a launch at 8:30 P.M. EST that could make history! You should watch it.
Rocketry Presentation Reflection
Our group started out well. But that all changed when the order of our slides was wrong. That didn’t affect us that much, but that took a toll on us later on in the presentation. I thought we did poorly but other people didn’t think so.
Non-Fiction Feature Article
My NF article was a lot of work. I wrote about Barcelona. I would rather want to work on Pages. Microsoft Word was hard to work with because it was annoying having to delete all those weird pictures and random Lorem Ipsum all over the place. First I had to write my information down. Then I had to put some photos related to my text. Next I had to find a good way to present my article. I had to revise and edit my work. Then I had to revise and edit my work again until finally I was done! The process was hard but the result was worth it.
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Welcome!
Welcome to my blog page. A lot of cool things you can comment are on this page. You will see my non-fiction article reflection. You will be able to view and comment on more of blogs on my work later on in the year.