May 4

cookie excavation project.🍪🍪🍪🍪

Hello everyone, today I am going to tell you about my cookie excavation project and how it went. First of all you need to know what geologists are before I can tell you about my project. Geologists have a cool and strange job, they find rocks and research them and sometimes if there lucky the rocks can have some kind of weird information about the past. If your wondering what I mean by information, I mean that if a rock was created by a volcano it would have signs on it that you can research. Here is some more info about geologists.

 

What Ms. M told us to do is to take a cookie and a toothpick, skewer, and mini stick to excavate(excavate means to break, crack something and see the inside) the cookie. Ms. M also wanted us to write how many chocolate chips we thought there were, and then excavate the cookie to see if we were right. Here’s a picture of me excavating my cookie. Here is a short video of someone explaining what geologists are, in case you want more info

January 21

Pulleys

Hi, Blue Energy here, today I will tell you about the pulley I made and the other kinds of pulleys there are.

What is a pulley?

a pulley is a wheel and axle with a string going over the wheel and that string has a hook and that hook gets attached to something you want to lift up. A pulley doesn’t make it easier to lift something but the more strings there are the easier it gets.

different kinds of pulleys.

there are more than one kind of pulley, for instance a fixed pulley or a compound pulley. the difference is pretty big because a fixed pulley is a wheel and axle that has a string with a hook on one side and a compound pulley is two wheels and two axles with a string up and down with a hook.

March 25

Innovation Day

 

Building and testing a parade float

Problem: Can I build a parade float that can travel 50 cm and hold 100g?

Hypothesis: I thought that I could probably make a parade float that can hold 100g and travel 50 centimetres.

 

Materials:

Bamboo skewers

Cardboard

Elastics

Tape 

Plastic golf balls

Optional hot glue, Markers, Coloured pencils, and cotton balls.

Method:
First I drew a picture of my parade float and the next day I started to build it. After that I took cardboard and made a cube and used tape to attach the cardboard together. Then you take bamboo skewers and add them to the bottom of the cardboard cube with tape and if you want you can use hot glue. Then you add plastic golf balls on the end of the bamboo skewers and add rubber bands so the plastic golf balls don’t fall off. The way you put on the rubber bands is put it on the bamboo skewers edge and twirl it and put it over and keep doing that over and over. Then decorate your float if you want.

Results:

It worked and then it didn’t work but then it worked when my friend videoed it. It traveled 70 cm.

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January 27

COVID

 

-By blue energy-

 

Covid is a virus that came in 2019. Click on this link to see Covid cases in the world. Covid is infecting more and more people every day and we are trying to find a vaccine to stop it. There are some companies that are developing vaccines for covid and they’re trying their very best. Two companies have already developed vaccines that work and some countries are already vaccinating their citizens.

 

Kids can get covid but they usually don’t feel it. Also kids don’t get infected as much as adults.That’s good because if they don’t get infected they can go to school. Covid is made out of three parts as you can see the E protein,S protein and the M protein.

Covid enters a person’s body by large respiratory droplets containing the virus that adhere to mucous membranes of a person’s eyes, nose and mouth. Viruses are tiny organisms that live inside of you when you have a viral infection like covid, it means that the virus is living inside your body. Based on what we currently know, transmission of covid is primarily from people when they have symptoms.  It can also occur before they develop symptoms. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BtN-goy9VOY

At least we don’t have covid, otherwise…we would have to be in quarantine for 2 weeks. We would have to get a covid test and nobody and I mean nobody likes covid tests. Leave a comment if you disagree.

 

Like the video said we want a low bump not a high one. That way everybody can be treated so we don’t make a decision who lives and who dies. Like the video said if you get Covid, bacteria will Infect you and you can die. That’s why masks and social distancing are very important and that’s also why there’s quarantine and lockdowns. So if you see people make sure you wear a mask and be, but if you are outside you don’t have to as long as you social distance.

 

Although Covid has been difficult for a lot of people, there are some good things that happened because of Covid. First, it’s better for the environment.Second, Covid has made us keep better personal hygiene. And third, a lot of people get to spend more time with their family.

 

We all hope that the pandemic will end soon and we can go back to meeting our families and friends in person. But, I hope that we can keep some of the good things we learned from Covid even after it’s gone.