Maglev Day 2

On day 2 of making maglev trains we were even more successful. Here are some things that we did on our final design that helped. Knowing that like poles repel helped us make the train float so we used more magnets to make the train go higher. We placed magnets on each side of the train and the track making sure to line them up so the track and train would repel. Knowing the properties of magnets helped us build the maglev train. We used striped magnets because they repel easily and look like train tracks.

 

Along the way a couple of things failed, one of them is when when we put more magnets onto the track. What happened was the train attracted to the sides of the track. The other failure was when we put 5 magnets onto the track and only 1 on the train. What happened then was the train was way too jumpy. From our failures we learned that making mistakes gets you closer to doing it right. We made a few changes, a change we made was squeezing the box so that the train wouldn’t have and room to flip onto the magnets on the track.

 

I learned some things about the engineering design process. One thing I learned was that it can be frustrating. Another thing I learned was that it never ends! I also learned about teamwork. One thing I learned about teamwork was it is hard to do anything without it. Another thing I learned was that in teamwork you should always talk your ideas out instead of fighting.

 

Technology is…

Technology is something that is a new version of what it used to be and solves a problem/help someone. Technology is also something that is man/women made.

A magnifying glass is technology because it helps people. The problem it solves is when a scientist needs to things closely they can. A magnifying glass makes life better by helping scientist. They use magnifying glass’s when they are studying chemicals,bugs/insects ect. A magnifying glass improved on big and heavy microscopes that scientist used to have to use. Microscopes are very big and annoying to use compared to a small and easy to use magnifying glass.

 

A magnifying glass is an example of technology.

Expert Book

In a minute you will be reading my expert book about the Burj Kalifa. The reason I chose this topic is because I went to Dubai and while I was there I went into the Burj Khalifa. You’re probably wondering what in the world is the Burj Khalifa! Well it’s the tallest building in the world! So I chose to tell you about it.

 

It was hard work making this project. I had to think a lot about what I wanted to tell people about, and this is what I chose. After I found my idea I went straight to thinking about the chapters for my book. Then I had to write them. After that I had to think about my introduction. When I finished writing my introduction I was off to the lab making slides. I added text features meaning images, timelines, diagrams and more!

 

My favorite part was probably the images because I thought it was so fun getting to find all these amazing pictures that I never knew were on the internet! The hardest part was definitely thinking about what to talk about and explaining things in my book.

 

Now that I have told you about all my book I hope you’re excited to read it!

 

The History of Typography

During our class time in the computer lab, Mr. Casal showed us a video about the history of typography. After watching this video I realized that there were WAY more fonts for writing than I thought there were. These are just some of them… Italics, Caslon, Sans Sarifs, Egyptian, Futura, Gill Sans, Helvetica, Pixel Type, Roman Type, Roman, Black Letter and Comic Sans. I liked the style of the video because it was like Ben Berrett-forrest was typing in different fonts and it made me feel like he was moving very fast. Ben also was telling us that certain fonts meant things. Like for example.. old style, traditional and modern.

When I thought about fonts this is all I thought about… cursive, print, fat letters, thin letters, big letters and small letters. What I didn’t realize was that I was missing out on all of the other fonts!

 

Here is the video we watched:

The History of Typography by Ben Barrett-Forrest from Dezeen on Vimeo.