Today for Technology class, I watched a video that shows the steps to how skateboard wheels are made. The video was pretty complex, and it showed what properties a skateboard wheel needed to have, which is what I will discuss today. The skateboard wheels start out as a piece of aluminum. The aluminum is cut […]
Grade 7 Technology #6 – Building
Recently, I finished my plans on Tinkercad and I plan on building soon. I hope to start tomorrow during class. For this week of school, I am temporarily going all-virtual and I had to go to school and pick up my bag full of supplies and tools for my build. The bag includes my main […]
Grade 7 Technology #5 – Uses of Different Types of Wood
Today’s Technology lesson was about types of wood. I learned that there are three main types of wood, which are softwood, hardwood, and engineered wood. Softwood is not necessarily softer than hardwood, and is actually pretty strong. It is mainly used for like the structures of houses, and you can find certain types of softwood, […]
Grade 7 Technology #4 – Tinkercad
Yesterday, I used Tinkercad to create my model house. Tinkercad is a 3-D modeling program that is pretty easy to use. I have used it before a long time ago, but learning it again was kind of like a review. It was really easy to make the house in Tinkercad, and I really enjoyed making […]
Grade 7 Technology #3
Hello there! For Technology, I have decided to make the small house from the last post, but I added a few changes. Recently, I had to be more specific with the measurements of the model house. I also needed to add what joints I will use to connect pieces of wood, and how much wood […]
Grade 7 Technology #2 – Making Things out of Wood
Hello, Today I can talk about any topic I want, so I will talk about a project we are going to do soon. We are going to use a very light and thin wood to make something. The class doesn’t know what to make, so we each are brainstorming ideas. My idea is to make […]
Grade 7 Technology #1 – Timber Harvest
Hello there! This is Technology for 7th Grade. Today I saw three videos about how wood is cut and is made into lumber. I will compare each of them. The first video was an old one that was about cutting redwood trees, which are really tall and take a lot of effort to cut. Things […]
Technology #9 – Structures!
Hello again! This is my last blog post for Technology. in the past few days we have been learning all about structures in both Technology and Science class, but I’m going to mainly talk about what I learned in Technology. The main things that I have learned about is tension, compression, and the properties of […]
Technology #8 – Electricity
In the past few online lessons, we learned about hOw batteries make electricity. The way a battery works is so ingenious, so I thought it was super ingenious. The way a battery works is that it has three parts of a battery, which are usually copper ions with two less electrons, a boundary between the […]
Technology #7 – Metals
In our Atoms unit, we were learning mainly about the electrons, protons, and neutrons, but now we are learning about the different metals. Today we watched a video about the metals, which was really interesting. It only covered the more common ones, like the element metals, like gold and iron, but also the alloys, like […]