Capstone Blog Post 3

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.

Rube Goldberg Blog Post 2

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

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.