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Anwsering My Main Inquiry Question Working on My Final Product #3

Hello, my name is Trevor and I have been working on a capstone. My capstone topic is Tesla. I Researched tesla and then transformed my research into a presentation.

 

First, I needed to come up with a main inquiry question and  sub-questions, we needed 5 subquestions. Once I had finished My sub-questions I worked on my research. I researched one sub-question at a time I average about 300 words per sub-question, I found a lot of good websites, and my strategy was to copy and paste my sub-question and check out the first thing that comes up. I would scan the entire website to find facts that answer my topic the most and put them in my research. My main inquiry question was what factors have most contributed to Tesla’s success as the company we know it is today? Some of my sub-questions were, the reason is that the appeal of Tesla cars is so strong, and Elon Musk helps design and promote Tesla cars.  I found it hard to find good websites because tesla is growing at a rapid pace and it is hard to find an up to date websites. Tesla was also not that popular for a while and had a recent spike in sales. There were a few websites that helped me a lot. I found it hard to put the words of the website into my own. The sites were phrased perfectly. If I phrased it differently most of the time It would sound unprofessional. My favorite part of researching was being able to explain tesla to my friends because I knew so much about it. I felt like an expert.

 

Once I had finished answering the main inquiry question I worked on my essay. My essay was in my case very easy because I already had all of the material I was going to transform into my essay on a document. I needed to filter a lot of the information because some of it wasn’t strong or I Had to rewrite sections because they did not make sense. My essay took a while because I had so much good info it was hard to put it into essay form. I managed to have a 1600-word essay. I finished the first draft of my essay that day. Then I took around 2 to3 days to edit my essay when I finished my essay I showed it to my dad. He looked over it then I was officially finished with my essay.

 

In conclusion, I really enjoyed the project even though the research was tough I really enjoyed it. Now it was time to put my essay into a presentation. It’s been fun But I am excited to have it be done.

 

Regions blog post

A region is part of the US. Our region group consisted of Christian, Anastasia, Devon, and I. We got assigned the northwest region. The northwest region has 5 states Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. We had a list of questions that we needed to schnauzer about every state in our region. every person was assigned a state in the northwest and we spun a wheel to see who got the last state in the region. Our group worked really well together and we answered a lot of the questions pretty fast. We decided to present our info as a website form. We all organized all of our info and put sections and put all of the regions. I chos eto reserach pregon. Once we had all of our info we were ready to present. We were the fourth group to preset. Presenting was a little stressful butI really enjoyed this unit and I learned a lot about the northwest region. in. SO far I really enjoyed this unit and thought that I learned a lot about the northwest region.

Maglev #1

A maglev train is a magnetized train with magnet on the bottom of the train and on the track.it had to be north pole to  north pole so It hovers across the track because the repel is repelling the track.

Our groups idea was putting a strip magnet across one side and another strip magnet for each magnet to repel. To make the foam hover above the track. What really worked out for us is the strip magnets. The reason why it worked for us so well because we didn’t need to get magnet after magnet  after magnet. We failed at speed we couldn’t work together because the magnets were so entertaining and we couldn’t stop touching the magnets. So we couldn’t get our work done. Our experience was great working together.