At home, the event that I think uses energy the most is exercising. Now that we can not interact with other people, and the fact that we stay home a lot, we need to exercise to keep ourselves healthy. The way I exercise is by doing 2000 jump rope, which really tires me out. The […]
Atoms!
Because of the coronavirus, we are now having online classes. The break home is really nice, because there is so much more time to do work! For the past week we were learning all about atoms, and really how inexplainably small they really are. We learned about the many Greek scientists that spent their lives […]
What is energy?
What is energy? Energy is the power that allows you to do work. There are two main categories of energy. One type is called potential energy, which is the energy stored inside an object. For example, when you stretch out a rubber band, it builds up on potential energy before it snaps. The other category […]
Tech #5 – New Beginnings
Hello! After another week of building automata, we are starting a new unit, regardless of where we are in our builds. We aren’t stopping the automata, only that if we have extra time we can work on it. The new unit we have started is soldering. For our first soldering project, we are making jewelry. […]
Tech #4 – Creating the Automata
Hello again! After winter break, school has started once again. This means more time to work on the automata. Our teacher has cut out the cardboard parts for the box, along with our cams and followers, which are the gears that make our automata function. I am not that happy with how my cam came […]
Tech #3 – Automata!
For these few weeks, we are working on our own machines, or automata. We each have a separate design, and we are making them out of cardboard. The tools in the room are really nice. For example, we have a load of hot glue guns, and my favorite part is the laser cutter. Every cut […]
Tech #2 – Boxes
Hello! After a couple days of tech, we did some really interesting stuff. We were shown 6 different boxes that each did something when we turned a lever. At first, the boxes were way too simple. Most of the boxes only had 2 axles and a few gears. It was the last 2 boxes that […]
Tech #1 – Start!
Hello! After a long time of no blogging, I am back! In school, I have this technology class, which is this really interesting, extremely fun not-so-class of a class! This class is pretty much a period of time to have some fun and feel like you’re not learning anything, but there is much more to […]
Blog #7 – Capstone Share
On Friday, 6/21/19, we had the Moving Up Ceremony, and after performing, we had the Capstone share. There was a lot of the fifth grade, because our grade is usually larger than the other grades, so we were split up into more rooms than usual. I was going to present in multi-purpose room B with […]
Blog #6 – Working on My Final Product
Today is the time when we are getting taped for our Capstone presentations we are supposed to use for the blog post. It was really challenging to make the slideshow, but with a lot of help from my teachers and aids I got it done, and it looked really finished. The hardest part of the […]