For my capstone presentation I decided to do a movie. The majority of my class did TED Talks. For the movie you had the option to do it on iMovie or WeVideo. I chose to do it on WeVideo because then I could work on the movie at home and at school. If I wanted to do iMovie I would have to choose to work on it at school or at home since it’s linked to desktops not accounts. This movie was actually my first time using WeVideo so I kind of had to teach my self how to use it. My movie is around 5 minutes long, and has many images. The first step that I did was find images for the first part of my script and put them in the movie. Then I did a voice over for that part. I repeated this step over and over for each part of my script. Once I was finished I added transitions to my movie between each image. My final step was having people watch my movie and give me feedback on how to improve it. At first I only presented my movie to a couple of people doing it one at a time, but then everyone presented there TED Talks or movies in front of the whole class. When it was my turn the class watched my movie and gave me some really helpful feedback. For example some of the images got cut off and I forgot to put my name on the one the introduction. My next post will be about CapCon 2019. That is the day that we all present our projects to the parents.
Month: June 2019
Capstone 5
This blog post will be about my main inquiry question. My main inquiry question is, how have sports stadiums designs changed over time. To research this question I used 2 two articles. One of them was about the evolution of stadiums, if you want to look at it click on this link, https://www.athleticbusiness.com/stadium-arena/stadium-design-evolution-from-1977-to-2017.html. This article was very helpful because it was all about the evolution of stadiums from 7 different views designs, seating, technology, and more. The other article was about the Hillsborough Disaster (a tragic event that occurred in a soccer stadium in which 96 people were crushed to death). You may be wondering why would I want to know about this. I wanted to know about this because after this event stadiums were made safer by adding more seats. When I answered this question I had to use graphic organizers. The two graphic organizers I used were boxes and bullets and a timeline. These are my two favorite graphic organizers in my opinion.
Capstone 4
For capstone one thing that you had to do was have an interview. At the interview you had to ask at least ten questions. The interview I did happened to be at my site visit. I wasn’t planning on interviewing someone at my site visit. I was originally planning on interviewing an engineer or an architect but I got no responses, so I did my interview at Yankee Stadium. My interview was with Daniel Webber, stadium operations at Yankee Stadium for non-baseball related events. He was also the person giving me the tour so as we went through the stadium I asked him questions. Since I wasn’t planning to do the interview with him I had to come up with my questions on the spot. One of my questions was what events are hosted at Yankee Stadium other than baseball. I was surprised when he said the trade shows, soccer, football, and corporate events because I only knew that baseball was played at Yankee Stadium. In all my interview was very helpful for my research.
Mixtures and Solutions
In class we have been working on mixtures and solutions. A mixture is something made by mixing two or more things together and they can be separated. A solution is a mixture of two or more things that is homogeneous.
The first day we did an experiment. We received DE (Diatomaceous Earth), table salt, gravel, and water. We had to make every possible combination with these substances, with one combination containing two substances. When we had each combination we had to see if we could separate the two substances using, paper filters, screens, and cups. We then recorded onto a chart what the results were. Two combinations could be separated and four combinations could be. This experiment was very fun to perform and I can’t wait to do more like these.
The next day that we did science we did another experiment. That experiment was mix one teaspoon of colored sugar with 25 ml of oil, 25 ml of water, and 25 ml of vinegar. The colored sugar was mixed individually with each of these ingredients. When sugar and water was mixed together the sugar dissolved and the water changed to the color of the sugar. When the oil and sugar mixed nothing happened. The oil’s color didn’t change and the sugar was still there. The last thing was vinegar and sugar. The sugar dissolved in the vinegar and the vinegar’s color became a brighter shade of the color of the sugar. Before we conducted each experiment we wrote hypothesis and after each experiment we wrote our observations. Mixtures and solutions is probably my favorite science unit and I cam’t wait to do more work in this unit.
Capstone 3
This post will be about my site visit at Yankee Stadium. One thing that I want to say before I tell you about my tour is that my topic is sports stadiums not as specific as football stadiums. For your capstone project you had to have a site visit. A site visit is when you go somewhere that has a relation to your project. I did my site visit with a classmate of mine because he was doing baseball and he was doing stadiums. His cousin happened to work at the stadium so he gave us the tour. The inside of Yankee Stadium was gigantic. I had been to many stadiums but when a stadium is empty it seems ten times bigger. We went all around the stadium at looked at the best and worst seats. My favorite part of the tour was when I got to go on the track of the field, the clay part of it and we went into the dugout. The last thing that we did was go into the retired jersey area in the stadium. In the museum we could see all of the retired numbers of Yankee players. I also did my site visit at the interview. In the next post I will get into more detail about it. The site visit was really helpful for my research and I can’t wait to present soon.
Here is a photo from my site visit.
