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Animate your Name

I got orange square and purple circle in my program because i took the coding from it and used it for the letters of my name. A thing that was challenging about this activity was getting the code right. The thing that was surprising about this activity was that there were message broadcasting.

Crank made out of paper

 

Hi so this week I Made a crank and i turned out great it actually worked unlike my cam. I put a dolphin on the end of it so when it moves the dolphin looked like it is swimming. It me its pretty cool. The crank is made out of paper/card stock it is put together with glue and i was impressed that it actually worked because i didn’t think it was going to. I like it and this is my favorite project that we did.

Catapult

Hi so i made a catapult and it had three arms so it could launch a lot of things at a time. It was three smaller catapult arms with one middle i made this by trying to make a bigger one but i made a smaller one and by accident put two more catapults on it and then i had a catapult with three arms.

Levers

Levers are one of the 6 simple machines. You would have most likely seen one In your regular every day Lives. A wheel barrow is a lever or a fishing rod or Evan the back of a hammer that you use to take out a nail. Levers have 3 parts a fulcrum a load and the effort.

F L E

1 2 3   You use this to determine what class your lever is. F is first class L is second class and E is third class. Levers can help you a lot when you have to lift something heavy but class three leavers make you move faster but it is heavier.

 

I think leavers are interesting how about you?

Circuits

A Circuit is a circle of wires with a current of electrons flowing through it. The ones we made had LED lights, batteries and resisters. The resistor can get very hot because the electrons move in a current that goes fast and when it gets to the resistor it has to slow down so that creates heat. We made circuits with a 9 volt battery a resistor a light a bread board and some wires. Mine worked. Soon we will be making a more complicated circuits I’m exited.

Lightning

You may have seen some flashes of light during a thunderstorm. And they go by really quickly. Light is the fastest thing on earth that I know of and it always wants to take the shortest rout to the ground. Usually a Leigh night storm happens when it is raining and a house is tall. Lightning always wants to take the shortest and easiest rout which means the heist things it can find. Also if your house is tall and wet it would most likely go to your house and if you didn’t have a lightning rod it could send your house up in flames. That is why we have lightning rods on our houses. The lightning rod is made and connected to a lot of wires twisted together to make one big one. It needs to be a big wire as to not cause any damage to your house.

Electroscope

This week we made electroscopes basically we put cardboard on the top of something see through and put a paper clip through it then you put tinfoil on the end of it and tape it up. After that take a Ballon and rub it on wool or flannel. Then the tinfoil should move. So that’s what we did.

Trusses project

So this week we made a structure out of tooth picks and something that holds it together. I used twister bites for mine. It held five books. Also it had triangle trusses on on it because triangles are the strongest shape. I am really impressed with it.

Beam project

So I built two beams one was a I beam and the other a triangle I got the idea for the triangle beam when we learned that the triangle was the strongest shape. Although it was made out of cardboard it was still pretty strong. They both held though and that is what I am happy about.

Technology week one

So I just started middle school and for my first quarter I have technology but not computer technology it is the kind of technology when you learn about man made things. Technology in this way is really interesting because I like to help my dad with a lot of projects around the house. The thing that is the most fun is finding out what the problem is and how to fix it. Also we have workers in outer house doing some construction and I like to watch them work and see all the tools that they use. Overall I am really exited to learn about how something can affect one small part of the project and the whole thing will fail just because one little thing was affected.