We went to Teatown, teatown is a nature preserve. It has 3 lakes and a lot of nature and animals!
My favorite part was the sandbox. The sandbox is a box of sand with an Xbox projector. It makes the sand look like the earth. We made mountains and made ponds at the top of the mountains. We made it rain by waving our hands above it or using the cheat button. We made paths on the side of the mountain for the water to go down.
Our manipulated and our controlled are both dead. The leaves were brown. It had no pods. It was drooping. Our manipulated is dead because of the sugar water. Our controlled is dead because of the water. We tried to bring our manipulated back to life before we threw it out. It didn’t work. We did the same thing with our controlled. That didn’t work either. The flowers were losing petals. The soil always stayed the same. Our manipulated died of the sugar water. Our controlled is dead because of the water. We tried to bring our manipulated back to life before we threw it out. It didn’t work. We did the same thing with our controlled. That didn’t work either.
We learned that photosynthesis is basically just making glucose. The leaves make glucose. They use water, air, and sunlight. Water+Air+Sunlight=Glucose.
We also learned that pollination is when an animal that pollinates flowers comes inside the flower to get nectar. It rubs the pollen from the inside of the flower on its body an when it comes to another flower, the pollen rubs off in the flower.
We also learned about the parts of a plants jobs. So, the pollinater rubs the pollen on the flower and the pollen goes down a tube called a pollen tube! The ovule holds the eggs which forms into a seed. And those are just some of the things we learned.
Plants all have some way to get out of the shade of the tree they were made on. It’s how they survive. They need to get out of the shade because if they stay in the shade, they won’t grow right. Because a plant needs sunlight and water. If they are in the shade they won’t get any sunlight. And the tree above them will get all the water. Also, if all the seeds the tree makes are right under it they will all fight over water, sunlight, and air. And plants do not like to share.
We used 4 strip magnets. 2 on the train and 2 on the tracks. We put them on the very edge of the train and the track. We had to line them up so that the train couldn’t stick to the side of the strip magnets. The properties of magnets helped us do it because without them we wouldn’t get to them we wouldn’t get the magnets to repel or float. They would just attract.
We failed a lot. It was very stressful. One of the times we failed the magnets on the train weren’t at the edge. So the magnets would stick to the sides of the strip magnets. We learned that if the magnets aren’t paralell they will attract and stick to the sides.
We learned that you need to imagine “Will it work or not?” So it doesn’t break and you will be wasting whatever you are using. I also learned that if you combine ideas it can be better.
Teamwork helped us because we both had ideas of how to make it work when our first idea didn’t work. In the end we thought of another idea together and that idea worked. It was a little bit frustrating because we both had ideas and it was a little bit hard thinking of the idea that worked.
A Maglev train is a train that has magnets on the train and magnets on the track which makes the train levitate 10 feet in the air! For example, if north and north or south and south were together they would repel. Repel means push away from each other and levitate. Here is a fact! If north and south are together they will attract! Also, it goes really fast. It can do 375 miles per hour! It works because there is hardly any friction. The only friction is air. My group’s idea for the train is one strip magnet on one side, and another strip magnet on the other side. My groups idea for the tracks is strip magnets on the whole thing.
On friday we created our design and we had a little trouble because the magnets on the train kept attracting with the magnets on the track. So we had to tape the magnets down. We know it will probably work so that is what we accomplished. What we failed at is in the beginning we had a problem. The tracks kept sticking to the train!
My experience with my group is good. We worked well together. We tried our idea. It didn’t work but we know why.
Making The MagLev Trains
I am hot. The sun is the hottest it’s been in days with a warm breeze.
I am a Sunflower
I have a long green stem and a flower with seeds inside.
I am a Sunflower
I am growing in the beautiful, sunny, Heathcote Garden.
I am a Sunflower
Last month I was short and not as pretty. Next month I will be droopy and cold because the temperature is cold.
I am a Sunflower