Category Archives: Technology

Technology Is…

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Technology isn’t just electronic devices. Technology is something that solves a problem or helps people in their life instead of doing… or something invented to something new in our lives. My object is a glue stick it is neat because you can twist the top up so you don’t waste any glue. There’s still more on the bottom you can twist up when you finish the top of the glue stick. It spreads nicely and doesn’t make a mess that’s why we use it in school. Something that solves a problem that is not nature is technology. My object is technology because it solves many problems in our lives and it was invented by someone not nature. My technology solves that you don’t have to squeeze Elmer’s glue and make your hands hurt. You can use a glue stick and spread it on instead and keep your hands from hurting. It made life better by not having your hands hurt when you squeeze Elmer’s glue. My object is made of plastic. It’s light, hard, rigid, colored and rounded.

Maglev Train Post #1

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A Maglev train is a magnetic levitating train, it is levitating from magnets on the train and track. That’s why it’s called a Maglev train. On the train bottom of our design, there are 2 strips on the top and bottom of the bottom of the train, there are 5 magnets in the middle too. On the track there are 3 strips on on the middle on on top and one on the bottom. There 8 ring magnets altogether. 4 magnets in between each strip magnet.

 

Nothing worked, and part of our track failed. The train magnets would attract to the track magnets and tip over and attract to the side of the magnet. Also we had to keep taking the tape off and keep putting it on. It was pretty confusing.

 

The experience wasn’t very good, though we got inspired by other groups that had a success. We tried and tried, It wasn’t successful still. It was really challenging there were tape scraps everywhere. Before we had started we taped down the track, so our arms were crunched in the box when we all tried to work on the track taping down the magnets. The The experience with my group was fine, it was kinda hard because there were only 2 jobs, track and train. But we helped each other so it was fine.

This is our group design, but we changed it so it would work.

 

My Expert Book – Becoming an Expert on Slime

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This book is about slime. I thought about slime because I know a lot a about it and that is useful for expert books. I have lots of slime, I play with it all the time and that got me into slime. I always want to make and buy slime so slime was a perfect thought. I researched a little at home too, I learned a lot in the process of this slime book. You probably will learn a lot in this book. There so many facts, you’ll probably want to make slime after you read this or you’ll want to buy slime. Many people make homemade slime, but some slime ingredients are dangerous. I learned a lot while writing this with all the writing techniques and the lessons I learned but I went baby steps, and it lead me to this finished book. Which to me looks perfect! I went very slow when we started the unit, but when I started seeing that barely anything was typed down I thought Wow! I need to start typing more. So I caught up with some work at home and school, I worked for an hour on this once! I finished way before I thought I would because I was behind. I enjoyed making this and hopefully you will enjoy reading this book!