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Two things: 1) We finished! 2) Here’s our movie: Before you watch, you may be wondering exactly how we finished. If you remember, we were in a pickle last time I blogged. The good news is, we got a time extension. We got one more day. And the pressure of the time limit seemed to…
Three minutes and twenty-six seconds. That was the final length of our stop motion. The final length. You know what that means? My stop motion group finished! In fact, I am typing these words as our movie is exporting. But, you may, my group was on thin ice last time I blogged. How did we go from…
“Once upon a time there was a group who filmed stop motion. They happily filmed stop motion with no disagreements. In the end, they had a great immigration movie and lived happily ever after!” That’s how I wish the story went. But currently my group’s story looks more like this: “Once upon a time there…
Starting Out on Super Stop Motions! Stop Motion projects have been dominating our days for a seemingly endless time. And I mean that in a good way! Since my last post, a lot has changed. Instead of doing arbitrary, cute, and somewhat pathetic clips of Lego people smacking each other, we have been pursuing a…
Expert Lecture 9 gets a big award. A cool activity. But before I can talk about the activity, I have to talk about the lecture. Jasper’s Mom came in. She is an orthopedist. That means she works in the field of muscles and bones. She talked to us about different kinds of surgery. It could…
Expert Lecture #8 was one of the most interesting ones. Micheal Meltz (Riley’s Dad) came in to tell us about his job, working at a company called Experian. He keeps track of data to help people manage their credit. What is credit? Credit is how much money you owe, how much you have taken out…
Expert Lecture 7 was one of the best yet. Greg, a former student of Ms. Boyer’s, came in to talk about his job. His job? A google designer! He works on the classroom team, a tool which we use in spanish. But he doesn’t just work on “classroom” Turns out classroom is divided into multiple…
Rube Goldberg has been a spectacular unit. I have come so far and learned so much. For example, I learned to always ask for help when you need it. I learned about innovation. I think this project has been a great learning experience. So, how did I learn those lessons? Well, I learned to ask…
So much has happened! As in, I finished my Rube Goldberg. Sure, there were some troublesome difficulties, like Imovie and the goal post, but overall everything went smoothly. And after 3 hours of work I had a finished video. So, how did I do it? Well, first Dad and I needed to get the catapult fully…
Expert lecture six happened just a few days ago! We learned about genetics (DNA). What are genetics? Genetics are the stuff that makes up you. Your eye color, the color of your hair and much more. Jonah’s mom, Sarah (the lecturer), is an expert on genetics. She knows so much about genetics, from the color-blind…