Over the last few weeks me and group have been working on hurricane proof house. The project was to make a 3D model of a house that can stand a weather disaster. Me and my group picked the weather disaster hurricane, and the location Florida. What we had to work with was Styrofoam to make rooms, walls, floors, and etc. So our first feature was the basement which basically just incase the wind is really strong to the point where the house gives in, you would go to the basement. Then we worked on the pipe system, to represent the pipes we used straws. The purpose of the pipes is to bring the water to the gutters. Then we worked on the attic which is in case of heavy rain and flooding. Since you would have to go the highest ground you would go there. Then we worked on the roof which would bring the rain down to the pipes. And lastly when we were done with structure we decided to paint the rooms and add beds and TVs to make the house look real.
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For science we had to learn about the layers of the atmosphere and what was inside of them one, and mass, and temperature. So our teacher made a project out of it. We basically had to take a shoebox for each layer of the atmosphere and had to create everything that was is in the layer in the shoebox. Since we were five people the group everyone got a layer. The layer I got was troposphere, so I put common stuff inside the box like cities, mountains, birds, people, and clouds. Which is everything you would see in the layer. We also had to write descriptions of each ones which we pasted on the side of each box.
So lately we been learning about space, with that we had a project which was to land an astronaunt in a space shuttle from two meters safely on the ground. Which meant we had to build our own shuttle. And we had a budget which was $50 to buy from suppiles as in marsallows, tape, straws, cardboard, etc. So me and my group came up with an idea, of doing layers of cardboard and stick it with a marsallow and toothpick. We tried it and the first time it worked! But I guess that was out of luck because the rest failed so decied to add on more marsallows and it actually worked. Maybe we'll work for NASA one day.
So I don't know about you but I can't deal with being under pressure or timed, I just end up panicking. So in the scholastic bowl was basically pressure, it was questions from everything from the first marking period. It was all about the moon and it's phases. The first round we answered as a group, there was five other groups against us to win. The second round was played as the first and so was the third, sadly my group had the lowest score. When we had to go one by one when we had a buzzer, which was the fourth round. My teacher would read the question the first one to hit the buzzer answers. What happened with me, is I panicked and I didn't press the button. We ended up losing sadly, but it was a fun experience being active in the game.
Why is the sun so important? Yes its our only heat source but why is that so important? Well the truth is that without the sun, were nothing. There is nothing, no energy no light, no moon light, there isn't anything. Our sun light is the source of all our energy, it powers everything we have. One day it will all disappear the sun will blow up! Then become a supernova. We well than all die out and become an ice planet again. So who knows we might all die tomorrow? That's why the sun is important, and compared to all the other stars it just a speck. "So no we are not the center of the world." A while back I made a cosmic calendar with my group. If your wondering what a comic calendar is it's basically a 12 month calendar of what happened 4.3 billion years ago right after the big bang. January 1st at 12:00 am that's when the big bang happened and so did the entire world did. But it progressed very slowly. We had to do different events for each year and find out there timing. Each event effected the other. Every cosmic calendar stops at December 31 so did we. Doing this project toke two weeks to finish all the research.
Going Bananas for Biofuels is my science fair now what makes it special is it helps the Earth and only takes up a fraction of your time. You know how when you have a campfire or barbeque you neither have wood or coal. Wood and coal are natural resources but can pollute the Earth with its smoke. And every time that we burn wood there is one less tree in the world. My project proses that we should forget about using wood and coal why not a banana peel? That may sound crazy but banana peels has biofuels which are used to create fires. Bananas peels can be turned into a somewhat coal. It would burn slower and wouldn't cause pollution plus it'll save you money. I tried it my self and saw that it works better than coal. And if your thinking about trying it this how so you have to have at least three banana peels. Take two of them and put them in the oven to make them dry and keep one normal peel. Then take the dry ones and burn them on the stove until there black. Finally grind the burnt peels with the normal banana peel and then put in your hand and create a coal figure out of it and then put it back in the oven for about 20 to about 30 minutes. And there you turn waste into coal hopefully one day this can benefit us in everyday life.
In science we are learning about the moon phases, why do we have them and what are waning and waxing phases. So basically the moon is always lit half of it even though we don't see it half lit daily it always is. Maybe not to our view but it is. Moonlight is sunlight and depends on where there Earth is so we can see the moonlight. I also learned it depends on the perspective of where the earth is and it's angle so we can see which phase of the moon 🌙 .
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