English Class
In English, our recent project has been to write a children's book. As we read in class stories about all sorts of mythological gods and goddess to relate one of them with a modern event. I did my book based on Pandora first made women, by Zeus who had the evil jar. Also, Prometheus the one who gave mortals fire. Poseidon, the god of the seas and earthquakes, and Zeus. The modern event was on hurricane Sandy which happened a few years ago but it's still recent. We had to go to an elementary to get feedback on our story. We also got feedback from our classmates, to improve on the suggestions they gave us. The last thing we had to do when our story was read to go is design and construct our book. I think this was the most exciting part. It took me almost a whole week to make my book, which I bind with yarn. My book has lots of texture that I hot glued with random objects that seem go with a scene in my story. Here's a link to the document of my story.
Physics/Engineering Design Our project for both physics and engineering design that can relate to mythology was to construct a wind turbine with our group. The process was quite difficult, especially when conducting electricity. My group and I ran into so problems, which unfortunately didn't work at the end. We had to change the blades three times. For physics we been doing research and learning about energy. This is because we have to relate it to the wind turbine. Here is a link to our group presentation. Now that you have seen our group presentation here is the technical script explaining the design process and the physics part of the wind turbine.
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Computer Science
For my next class project we have been working on making a story plot with the sites gliffy and twinery. This project relates to the story we have been working on, on English. When I did my story plot on gliffy we had to just construct our story with a few sentences. In twinery we had to made the story plot into the story not just sentences. Basically I just copied and pasted my story onto twinery. The next thing we had to do was code our twine to add or change all sorts of things onto to it. For example, pictures, color, change size and font. I didn't think coding was really fun. It was tricky at first but w3schools.com really helped me to add these things onto my twine. Here is a link to my final story in my twine story.
This is a picture of my gliffy where I did the story plot of my children's story.