March 27

Volcano Project

The past few weeks we have been working on our volcanoes. My group consisted of Quinten, Alex and I(Caleb). Alex is not pictured. Our first step in this project was to make a poster about the 3 different types of volcanoes and 1 real volcano in the world. The three different types of volcanoes are composite, cinder cone and shield volcanoes. The volcano that we picked in the real world is Mt. Fuji. After we were done with the poster we started working on our volcano model. We constructed a skeleton for our volcano(cardboard) then we covered it with paper mache. After that we painted and labeled parts of our volcano. We are going to make it explode by using diet coke and mento’s. Overall my group did a great job and I think our volcano is going to be successful.

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February 7

Spaghetti Tower Reflection

We have been working recently on a project in science involving making spaghetti towers. Our (Alex, Aiden, Cal, and Caleb) tower did not go so well.The requirements of the tower were it had to be 40 inches high and hold an egg on to of it during an earthquake. In the beginning, all was going well. Our teamwork was great, our blueprint was excellent and everything seemed to be going well. When we started building the first story it was awesome. Then the second story happened. Our blueprint made our second story lopsided and we had a few different ideas to fix it and we ended up trying to replace the marshmallow and the spaghetti sticks snapped and we ruined our tower and only got it to about half the height. In the end, we improvised to the best of our abilities and we got what you see in the picture.

If you would like to see a more detailed presentation click here.

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December 19

Math Project-The Pythagorean Theorem

Recently for a math class I had to make a project about the pythagorean theorem. I worked with Quinten on it because he is my friend and he is also in my math class. We made a burrito and we explained how people use the pythagorean theorem to make their burrito’s. It was called The Ultimate Perfect Burrito. We used a bunch of construction paper making it. We had the construction paper and we ripped up a bunch of  colored papers that looked remotely like the colors of burrito ingredients. After that we wrote a response about it. Here is our work if you would like to see it.

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