Discovery Street
In this project I learned about the energy we use and create when doing an activity and the energy objects use. My group and I made a documentary about walking and what kind of energy is used to help us walk. In another group were shown a cylinder that when pushed rolled back to the person who pushed and our objective was to make a cylinder work the same way without knowing how the original one works. I also made a documentary in a different group about the types of energy that is used when we do certain activities. My groups documentary was about the physics of walking.
Space - The Final Frontier
In this project my class was given a choice to work with a partner or independently and design an experiement that could be chosen to launch up into space. It was very difficult at first since a new designed such a detailed experiment but it was a very good experience.The final draft is linked below.
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Seeing Things Differently
In this project I learned about how mirrors and lenses work. We drew ray diagrams, learned about trigonometry and were split into groups to build optical devices. My group made a Galilean telescope. All of my work is in a portfolio that is linked below.
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The Sound Project
In the sound project we learned about how sounds waves work and we experimented with sounds and observed how the waves changed. We learned about the different categories of instruments and made our own instruments. We first built metallophones out of pipe and wood, then were split into group to make our own instruments. My group made a sounding bowl which is a bowl with tuners on one end and string going across the bowl. Each string is tuned differently so it makes a different noise. It acts very similarly to a guitar. We also painted a design on the back as a challenge option.
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