Tech post 9

This week we did a electric car game with the switches we made. Look at my previous blog post to find out about those. We hooked up the switches to three different lights. One switch had one light. One meant right, one meant left, and one meant stop. Two people were throwing down cards from […]

Tech post 8

This week we worked on switches. We made them out of cardboard and tinfoil. We made three designs. One of my designs was a stick coming up and down. Another one was two pieces tied together with string that touched. My last design was a piece rotating like a clock. We learned how to hook […]

Tech post 7

We learned about how circuits work and how to set them up. You need a battery, a battery snap clip, a LED light, and a resistor. Make sure not to touch the resistor you will burn yourself. Add the resistor first so you don’t hurt yourself. Click this link to see how to set it […]

Tech post six

This week we worked on breadboards and electricity. A breadboard is a base for electronics. This is what it looks like. An electric current runs all the way down on the thick side. It also goes sideways. Next to the red line there is the positive side, and next to the blue line there is […]

Technology – Week 5

We started a wooden light switch. First we had to find out what parts we needed for the different types of light switches. Then we decorated all of the parts. We drilled holes in the base. We sanded some parts. We glued and assembled the final products. Now I have a fully functional wooden light […]

Technology Week 4 – Movie

In tech we watched a movie about automatas and cams. It taught us about the history of cams. In the old days people paid a lot to see them work and only the nobles could see them. We learned how they could write, dance and even play chess! The one that played test was a […]

Cranks – Week 3

We have started learning about cranks and what they do. It is a part of an axle bent at right angles. We have also started building one. We had to cut out, fold and glue all the different parts. Since it is a crank we have had to bend all the parts in wonky and […]

Technology: Cam B

In Technology we are making cams. Cams are rotating machines. We are making them out of paper. First we cut them out with scissors. We cut the holes on the inside with a paper cutting knife. Don’t worry, it’s not dangerous. Then we took a ruler and folded on the lines. Lastly, we glued it […]

Technology

I have started the Technology subject. This is different than Computer Tech if you have seen my earlier posts.  We get to build things out of paper, cardboard, and wood. Right now we are building an automata which is a machine that does something in place of a human. We are cutting out and assembling […]

Spreadsheet Skills

In this spreadsheet I show the amount of people per square mile in each state. In the chart I show how much of the United State’s population is in each state. For the formula I did the value in column C (population) divided by column B (square miles). Using a spreadsheet makes it easy to […]