Archimedes Interview!

“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.”

- Archimedes

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Vocabulary: 

Fulcrum: The point on which a lever rests or is supported and on which it pivots.

Lever: A rigid bar used to help move a heavy load with one end when pressure is applied to the other.

Load: The weight on the other side of the lever. 

What we did in this experiment was we got a fulcrum, load, and a lever. And we had a sensor that measured in nodes. We had to use the ruler (lever) and the sensor which we pushed down hard on the other end of the ruler. We had a fulcrum underneath the lever located in the middle. We would move the fulcrum to out finger each trial. A real life example would be like when you put a rock underneath a spoon and the spoon has mashed potatoes, then you make the spoon balance by evening the weight out. Then you push on the spoon, that is an smaller scale of what we did. The spoon is the lever, the rock is the fulcrum, the mashed potatoes are the load and your hand pushing down on the spoon is the input force. 

Here is our data!

Archimedes

Image from: http://lexfridman.com/blogs/training/files/2013/11/leverage-fulcrum.png

Cool Interview!

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Science Fair Week 8!

Foam: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tile

Tile: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tile

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Science Fair Blog Post: Week 2!

In class today we played with sensors!

We had a tuning fork and had a block of wood holding the string. We pulled the tuning fork back and it hit a cylinder of wood. Then we put the sensor up to the tuning fork and recorded how many Hz the fork made. We did this with different sizes of tuning forks. I enjoyed it and it was very fun. Our project is to make a soundproof wall. This is going to be helpful in our project because we are going to need to know how to use the sensor. We all know hot to now. Next we will get the resources we need to build our soundproof wall. We still need to know what sound does not go through. That is all I got for this week in science!

Science Fair Blog Post: Week 1! It Begins!

This is a video of me explaining the 6th graders science fair project. Please enjoy and click a feeling below!

Today we played with the sensors. We have tuning forks of all different sizes and we are going to bang them and the sensor will collect the amount if Hz (Hertz). We are not sure how we are going to bang them without banging to hard or too soft.

Science: Skate Park Assignment!

When distance changes then the kinetic and potential energy will decrease or increase. When you are going down then there is more kinetic energy because the skater is moving faster. When you move up then you have more potential energy because you are changing the distance from the ground. Kinetic and Potential energy interact with each other when potential is at it's greatest and kinetic is at it's lowest (or the opposite). Imagine a car going up hill it has more potential energy and then the car goes down a steep hill then it has a lot of kinetic energy. Energy can be transformed into the real world by a roller coaster, when the coaster going up a hill it has lots of potential energy because it is changing the distance from the ground (getting higher and higher). When it drops down then it the coaster goes fast because it has lots motion/speed. Friction affects the motion of objects by the surface the object is on and the object rubbing against each 


other. http://phet.colorado.edu/

Language Arts: My Crazy Awesome Blackout Poem!

"The Ringmaster"

The ringmaster has been fooled. He was the sickest ringmaster. 

Nobody laughed low.

He could style big sheets of wrapping paper and black paint.

For this poem I tore out a page in a old book and then I circled words that were going to be my poem and then blacked out the rest of the words to make a blackout poem. 

I feel like my poem is hard to read because I colored too much of the words.

Language Arts: My Super Sweet Book Spine Poem!

"Waiting For"

Waiting for Norm

 Harriet the Spy

Wolf Rider

Dragons Milk

Gentlemen

In this assignment we had to make a poem out of book spines.

What I did to complete this task was to grab 10 books and then rearrange them make them sound nice. After that I edited my poem by taking some away and then put them in a order that sounds nice. 

I feel like my poem is hard to understand because it's just a bunch of words put together, but it is supposed to be a really long name.

Math Project: How Would I Spend $1,000,000?

How would you spend $1,000,000?

The project was about how you would spend $1,000,000 I chose to build a house.

The math I used was Addition, Multiplication, Fractions, Decimals, Percents, Pie Charts, Graphs, and Division. I used multiplying when I had to convert they decimals to fractions. I used adding and subtracting when we had to answer the 2 questions on the test.

I liked making the Lego Movie above because I like making lego videos and working with iMovie.

The most difficult part was making the fraction decimals because I have never worked with converting big fractions to small decimals.

I wouldn't change anything I think I did it the best I possibly could.

The video above shows the lego video I made about how I would spend $1,000,000!

Blogpost Labels! (For School)

These are the labels I am going to be using to organize my blog. These are for school