Imagine the Future

feel2“When you were in lower school, what was something that you were excited about for fifth grade? How do you feel about it now that you’ve done it?
What was something about fifth grade that you were a little nervous or worried about? How do you feel about it now?
What is something about which you are still a little nervous or worried? What might you do to feel a little less nervous or worried?
What is something that you haven’t done yet in middle school about which you are excited? What are you excited about it?”

Well there is more homework than lower school so I might be worried about that. But I thing I’ve got that down. I am kind of excited about the rest of the year because so far it has been fun. Especially the Civilization Simulation.

Population Graph

My graph is this shape because…

The curve in this graph is because the more people there are in the first place, the more the next generation will have. And then that generation will have even more kids.

The reason it drops so suddenly is because the Ice Age and wars started at about that time. The population would have dropped drastically.

In the present day, the population is about 8,000,000,000. When Ana gave us the information that in 8,000 B.C.E. there were 5 million people.  I had to re-think my whole graph.

My Graph

My Graph

 

Humanities Chronological Order

                              In Humanities, we took index cards with events from the big bang until now and put them in chronological order. This really helped me because I had forgotten some of the little things that are still really important. I learned that even if you think you remember everything, you can refresh your memory and you will learn something new. Also, the little things are really important. Some little things involved smaller time periods in which events were close to each other. For example, an object the size of Mars hit the Earth. The Earth swallowed up most of it, but the debri created the Moon. The moon created both seasons, and turned the Earth’s 6 hour days to 24 hour days. But we had to figure out whether the seasons, or 24 hour days came first. This was really helpful because I could get all the little things sorted out.

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Science pictures of an atom

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These are what I think an atom looks like.

The reason I showed so many pictures is that I wanted to make it seem like the smaller object is spinning around the larger one.

I watched a video called the History of the World in Two Hours . In this video, an atom was a transparent sphere with some shapes inside and a smaller sphere spinning around the larger one.

I tried to create the image, as accuratly as possible.

 

Math Track Graph problem

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These are the line graphs ADH5 made for the track problem.

I noticed that the graphs for each problem look pretty much the same. That means that we all got the same answer.

When you stop, you get a straight line on the graphs. Going faster makes a steeper slope on the graph.

On the problem when the runner slows down, it curves because the rate of change is changing.