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Review on the Scratch project

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In this project I worked on for over two weeks, I was able to become more comfortable with using blocks in Scratch and most importantly, became much better at controlling things. What I enjoyed the most was the fact that I made a game for other people to actually play. My experience with making these 3 projects: Maze, Pong, and Scrolling was pretty good! My first tries for all the three projects were pretty good, to be honest. Nevertheless, making the Scrolling game was more ardous than the other two projects.

In order to make my project special, I made a scoring system which allowed me and the other people who play my game to be able to keep track of how many points they have. At first, I was confused on how to do so, but because Mr. Rose showed it to my whole class step by step, I had a really fun time making the system. What I basically had to do was make a new block. That was why I was almost pro at making it at the end of the class:)

Overall, since everyone’s projects were very creative and well thought, I especially liked Sunny’s as her project had a nice music along with the fish going through lots of obstacles.

In conclusion, I really really liked this project and so did the other projects to! At first, I believed that Computer Tech will be too hard for me since I am not good at coding; however, because of Mr. Rose and the myriads of ways he tried to support us, I was able to grow a lot from this quarter. Again, thank you so much Mr. Rose for working hard to make our projects really fun and most importantly, make learning exhilarating for us! šŸ™‚

Pong project

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This is my second blog post for the day, and guess what????

Itā€™s going to be about….. THE PONG PROJECT!!! Sounds fun, right?

For people who doesnā€™t know what the pong project is, it was this assignment we had in our computer tech class and we use this application called Scratch to code. In this specific project, we coded to make a game with a ball and a paddle and try to make the ball bounce as it hits the paddle. While the game seems pretty easy at first, MAKING the game is actually pretty difficult.. The most challenging thing about it was actually getting the ball to move. I had to use lots of blocks in order to move it up and to move it ā€˜foreverā€™. Iā€™m mostly proud of all the parts of my project and there is not really a specific part of it that I am especially proud of. Overall, this project was very interesting as I was able to learn more things in Scratch!

Scratch: Maze Project

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Yesterday, in computer tech, we worked on this project called the Maze Project. This is one of the projects we are doing in computer tech this week in Scratch, and luckily, I was able to learn myriads of things. For one thing, I was able to learn how to make the sprite move with the arrow keys on an individualā€™s keyboard. The code was not that arduous as I thought it would be; however, it was complicated for me.Ā I was able to learn much more, but now, I will move to my conclusion. To sum up, I really loved this project and was able to be successful! What I really liked the most was the fact that I was able to make a real game my classmates could actually play on their computers or iPads. I hope that the next project (Pong project)would be as exciting as this too. :)

~Spread Sheet 2~

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From looking at this chart that shows the studentsā€™ favorite months of the year, I Ā learned that 1/4 of the sixth graders at SMS like variety of months. Some love January while other love August. It also taught me the diversity of the students in our school as well as how we are same in some ways.

First of all, we can say for sure that most of us love the summer. On the graph above, it says that 25%of the people who took the survey loved July which proves that. Surprisingly, this was the exact opposite of my favorite since my favorite month is December. I really like December, not only because I can play outside in the snow with my friends and siblings, but I can also spend more time with my family. Since it is cold in the winter, we stay at home/inside and I can get closer with them. Because I donā€™t know which students from which houses voted, I’m still not sure on which students from which house has the same favorite as me. However, I hope that a lot of people in Cooper does.

The chart shows the opposite of my favorite, so I was a bit surprised and dejected at first but I think that summer is popular since people get to go out with their friends more frequently. On normal school days, a lot of students go to hangout in places such as goldenhorshoe and their elementary parks, but in the summer, they can do that whenever they want. Overall, looking at the graph and learning more about how spreadsheets work was a very intersting experience for me. I hope that I get to learn more about it in the upcoming future too.

 

Spreadsheet 1

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Rhode Island

The oldest schoolhouse in the United States was built in 1716 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

3 questions I have about Rhode Island:

Q1. How the population raised in Rhode Island over the past 10 years?

A: The population has increased 0.6% from the year 2010-2019.

Q2. How many people speak language other than English at home?

A. 22.4% of the entire population speaks languages other than English at home.

Q3. Whatā€™s the state capital?

A: The state capital is Providence.

Fun fact I learned today: The state that has the most population that speaks another language at home is California. Rhode Island is number 12 šŸ˜„

Fun fact from 5/25: (Taken from the Immigration section of the Spreadsheet..)

– The year that immigrants immigrated to the United States from 1820 to 2017 the most was 1991 when 1,826,595 people immigrated.

Animate Your Name

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This is my first blog post for the 4th quarterly, Computer tech. For the first post, I will talk about the Week 4&5 project, ā€œ Animate Your Nameā€. Well, you might be wondering, What in the world is that?? This is a project using this app called Scratch which is an app used for coding. In the project, I learned how to move our letters of our first name freely with sound and make them appear in a really cool way:)
At first, the project was called ā€œ Orange square, purple circleā€ but we changed the project once we finished that. I incorporated an orange square and a purple cicle into my project by making them move around the whole square in circles. This idea, of course, came from my teacher, Mr. Rose. However, my own project came from my own idea. The most suprising thing that happened while making this project was that it was easier to put the broadcast code. I chose my letters font in colors of blue, white, and gold because I thought that those colors will match together really well. I inserted 4 types of music in my project and all of the music are really coolšŸ˜Ž. I really liked Rebecca’s project as its music really matched her style and also her letters were beautifully expressed. What was most challenging about this activity was making th letters move and stop when the next letter was moving. I had a very hard time trying to figure out, therefore, today, I asked Mr. Rose for help. Then, he kindly helped me on what to do, and his advice was really helpful. Thank you Mr. Rose!

Technology Blog post #8 Part 2

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Today, when I was doing the Nearpod lesson, a question came into my mind.

In the video I was watching, it said that what the person was showing was science..

I got a bit confused becasue right now in class, I thought I was doing Technology.

What’s the difference between Science and Technology class??

Technology: Post #7 Electricity and Circuits

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Today, I will talk about this weekā€™s one of the two assignments that I had…

Earlier this week( On Monday, I think), my teacher, Mr. Calvert assigned us to make an electroscope!!!! When I heard about that, I was excited because Iā€™d never really made one before in my whole entire life! My favorite part of it was probably the testing part because it was really fun to see the foil move whenever I got the balloon šŸŽˆ closer to the paper clip. It was kind of like a butterfly šŸ¦‹ flapping its wings.

The whole point of that was to guess what we think was happening there, so I had to think for some time before the experiment. Honestly, it didnā€™t really come quickly to my mind, but when it finally did, it was like the best thing that could happen in the entire world just happened!!!! I remembered that what was happening in my experiment was called ā€œStatic electricityā€! My mom had told me about that when I was young and when my sister was rubbing a ballon on her head.

I hope the next experiment (Making a circuit) that I have to do today will be exciting as usual!ļ¼

Well态this is the end of my blog for this week. Until next week, bye!

Technology: Post #6 Cranks and Atoms

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This week, I learned mostly about ATOMS.
ā€œ But what is atoms?ā€ You might be wondering, while reading my blog. Well, to put it simple, atoms are what is made up of three particles which are protons, neutrons, and electrons.
To say it more in a shorter way, atoms are sources of nuclear energy! EVERYTHING on earth is made up of atoms from the air we breathe in, to the corona virus that we avoid. Did you know that? I bet you didnā€™t.
What really fascinated me was that we will NEVER be able to see atoms with only our eyes because light waves are too big to bounce off atoms. Mr. Calvert told me in class today that even if we invent the best microscope that humans can produce, we wonā€™t be able to see it because atoms are soooo small!
In addition, another fact I learned in class today was that the first person to consider the existence of atoms was born in Thrace (Modern day Turkey) 2,300 years ago. That personā€™s name was Democritus. He believed that ā€œ the nature of things was made of small, invisible particles of varying sizes called Ɓtomos.ā€ However, we now know that he was wrong! (This is a bit sad for him…..šŸ˜­) He was onto something, but we now know that there are SMALLER things than atoms which are THE PARTICLES that make atoms!

Overall, this weekā€™s lessons on atoms and our universe was really really thrilling! Mr. Calvert told us that we are going to talk about atoms tomorrow (Thursday) too, so I am looking forward to it! šŸ¤©