Category Archives: 5th Grade

Capstone Blog Post 3

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This project is going great and my work on my final product is going well. My question was how often asteroids hit other planets and the effect of the impact on that planet. I chose this question because I seem very fascinating to me and I have an interest in asteroids. The way I got this idea to choose asteroids was me thinking of doing dinosaurs. I was going to do dinosaurs but then I thought of doing something different but related so I chose asteroids which was the thing that killed the dinosaurs.

 

My answer to how often asteroids hit other planets and what is the effect of the impact on that planet is every 500000 years. The effects are tsunamis, earthquakes, and other natural disasters.

 

This project was challenging but also exciting. What I mean is that I had to work very hard on this project but in the end, it was very exciting and fun to watch and get feedback.

 

My final project is going well because I am getting a lot of positive feedback from friends, family, and teachers. I think capstone is coming together very well and I think by June 15th (Due that date) my project will be great and I will do well on the project.

 

I feel like I learned a lot about this topic and I am very happy that I decided to choose asteroids. I learned things like how asteroids hit planets and the effects of the impacts.

 

Overall, this project was great and I feel like it really prepared me for middle school. I learned lots of valuable things like how to make and perfect a movie. This will be a big milestone in my long career as a student and I will remember this for a very long time. It felt so good to finish such a big project.

Capstone Blog Post 2

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The purpose of the interview was to ask questions and get answers. Then layer to listen to the interview and add notes. The research process was great at the start, but I could not find anything towards the end of the process.

I asked my parents to find me an interview and they realized that a friend from college knew someone that could get us one. Then we got one and had it. I have to say it was pretty easy in my opinion. The questions were easy to write because I had lots of ideas.

My experience with conducting an interview was great because all I had to do was record it and ask the questions. It went as expected. It went well because he answered the questions.

All in all, this was very fun.

Capstone Blog Post 1

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Capstone is a project that lets you pick a topic to research and it also lets you interview as many people as you want. The person you interview is an expert on your topic. You also have a choice of how you present. You can do an Ignite, Ted talk, or a movie. After that, you have to make a video which is very fun to make because you get to choose which site you make it on, that is just a speck of the freedom this project lets you have. I feel like capstone is a great project and it lets you bring out your creativity. 

Coming up with my topic was very hard. This is because my first thought was dinosaurs, but then I realized that I always do that so I should do something different. I started thinking about what I should do. Then it hit me! I should choose a topic related to dinosaurs, such as a topic about asteroids since an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.

It was a very hard process because there were so many questions about asteroids hitting the earth, but then I thought, what if it hits a planet other than earth. A challenge was deciding to do this because I knew it would be harder to find information, but I decided to do what I thought was more interesting. “How often do asteroids hit other planets and what is the effect of the impact on that planet”. That is my question.

The process of coming up with my sub-questions was fairly easy since I had planned them from the day I decided what my main inquiry question was. One challenge was picking the questions. This is because I had so many that I was past the limit. I had to narrow it down.

I am very excited about this project and I know it will be a fun one.

 

Immigration Blog Post 2

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I think this project was very fun and I learned a lot that I did not know about my dad. I had to find time to interview my dad. After I got the answers I had to write them down in a folder which was hard and took me a long time because I had to write everything he said. Then I had to write my first blog post which was about how the interview went which was fun to do. I had to make a practice video which was great because it set me up for everything I needed to know when I was going to do my video. When I wrote my script it was fairly easy because I had it all planned out so it did not take as long as I had thought before. Then I had to do my video. I had been waiting for what felt like an eternity to finally make it. The voice-over was great because I had a lot of time to do it and it was very fun. The pictures were easy to get because there is such a big library of pictures. This video was great because it brought out a lot of my creativity and it was also pretty easy because my dad had a great memory of how he Immigrated and who he left behind in his country. This video was very fun to make because there were so many options on what to do. I really think that my dad took it very well because it was a very emotional thing and he answered with a smile on his face with a really tough heart.

Rube Goldberg Blog Post 2

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My experience on the Rube Goldberg Machine was great because I had the materials and my parents were open to recording. The design was great because I felt like I had all the control and no one could tell me what to use and how to use it. I learned a lot of new building skills like how to learn from what went wrong the first time. I feel like this will help me in middle school. Making the video was very fun and I had a lot of choices on what to do and how to do it. The video came out great.

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Rube Goldberg Machine Blog Post 1

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So far this project has been great. I feel like I can be a lot more creative than what I do in the other projects. I feel like designing it will be very fun and very relaxing. I feel like this will really bring me out of my comfort zone. I also feel this could be super great and it could really be a highlight of my 5thgrade journey to middle school. I took a lot of research on how other people did their Rube Goldberg and I used a lot of stuff that they used. I am very excited to build this contraption because I love building things. A frustrating thing is trying to find the resource to build this contraption. I could have bought something on amazon but I stayed and tried to use the stuff at my house because it would be more fun and challenging. I think this will help me be more creative.