In our Social Studies class, we had to write a report on a European country. I chose Finland. The whole purpose was to learn more information on the country you choose. From this project, I learned a lot more on Finland than I used to know.

           For my Technology class, I had to take a survey of our Fifth Grade class in our school and convert it into an Infographic. I used the Google Form to help me create my survey. Google Form is a spreadsheet that allows you to create a chart and survey results while on your Google Drive. I had to make up questions showing that I had learned something about the class. I also had to have a comparison of the results of boys to girls who answered a certain question expressed on my Infographic. I asked five questions to each of them and I was able to look at my results afterwards by hitting a button at the top of the page. This was my first time using Google Form and it helped a lot. I had a problem with my survey, though. Not everyone in the class had answered my survey. I had to see what was wrong and then my teacher told me that she hadn't got to give some of the students the survey yet. What a relief! I had to rephrase my questions a bit because some of the students had trouble answering them or didn't know what I was asking them. I could have done this different, but I enjoyed using Google Form. If you want to see my finished survey, click here.

           Creating my Infographic wasn't easy. I made in a thing called Microsoft Power Point. It allows you to create a "slideshow" of your results. I had to transfer all my information from my results on Google Form onto 4 slides in Microsoft Power Point. They all had to have the same, solid background color. On one slide, we had to create an image using the shapes that Microsoft Power Point gave us. On a different slide, we had to make a chart showing some of our results on that graph. After I finished all my slides, we had to convert it into a Microsoft Word document. We created one big slide out of the four slides we created. It was a big column filled with information and results. We had to remember this important word while making our Infographic. CARP. CARP stands for Contrast, Alignment, Repetition, and Proximity. Contrast means having light objects on a dark background. If you have blue text on a blue background, that is bad contrast. Alignment means making everything straight and neat. You want your Infographic to look neat and organized. Alignment is important to making it look that way. Repetition means limit the use of repeating information. If you repeat too much, you have wasted space and time on your Infographic. Proximity means limiting the use of blank space. If you have a chart in the bottom right corner, you have all the empty space on the right of your Infographic. That is using bad proximity. Infographics are an easy way to express information. If anything catches your eye, it is worth looking at. Infographics are an easy way to find info, because you don't have to search and read long paragraphs or books. It is just one slide filled with information. Infographics are an easy way to find information anytime, anywhere. Infographics are an easy way to find information quickly without reading lengthy paragraphs. To view my full-size Infographic, click here.

In a roller coater, Newton's Laws apply to them greatly. In his first law, he talks about inertia. When the mass of an object is greater, the greater the inertia is. In his second law, he talks about acceleration. Acceleration is the rate at which the velocity changes. In his third law, he talks about force. All of his laws are required to have a roller coaster to work.

The roles that my group had to make the roller coaster were: the Historian, The Design Engineer, The Physicist, and The Lawyer. I had the Physicist. I had to find out all the physics that were involved in making a roller coaster. I found out that the speed of the coaster has to be great enough to make it into the station.  When you go over a hill, you can sometimes feel the gravatational force holding you in your seat. When you go around a turn at a high speed, you can feel the velocity. Potential and Kinetic energy help the coaster move around the track.

I built a roller coaster. It failed the first time, but it worked the second time. Here is my roller coaster that failed:

When I first tried my coaster, I had a loop after the drop and I had a hill after the loop. The hill slowed down the coaster a little bit, but it wasn't enough. The coaster reached the station, but crashed through the station.

Here is my roller that worked:

The reason my roller coaster worked was because I applied everything that I found out into the coaster. The coaster had a hill right after the lift hill. After that hill, I have a loop to slow the coaster down a little bit. After the loop, I had a drop to slow the coaster down more and a hill to make the coaster come into the station slow enough to make it stop. The coaster did stop without crashing though.

During this school year, our stidents in grades 2-8 completed the Presidential Fitness Challenge. We took part in a variety of physical endurance tests. The 6th grade students charted the results for each grade. Here are the results of the Push Ups and Pull Ups for grade 4. As you can see from the chart, 13 students or 39% of the class achieved the Presidential level, 14 students or 42% of the class achieved the National level, and 6 students or 18% of the class achieved the Participant level.

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My teacher assigned me a project to do on an ancient Egyptian god or goddess, so I chose Nut. She is a really interesting person to do research on. I hope you get to know alot about Nut on my glog. I did this glog because I wanted to know about some people in ancient Egypt. I picked Nut because she looked like an interesting character to research, and she was! I enjoyed doing my glog on her. I learned alot about her. To view my glog full size click here.

Hi, I'm RP, here with King Tut. Mr. Tut it is an honor to have you here.  Would you mind If I ask you a few questions?

King Tut: Not at all Mr. P. I will always share my life story to the world to hear. Shall we get started?

Ryan: Yes. We should get started.

1. Ryan: Mr. Tut, why are you so famous?

Tut: Well, I am so famous because of all my treasures in my tomb. Also because my tomb was basically untouched. Because of all the gold though, my tomb got robbed quite often. All my people tried to get my stuff back as soon as possible. They did eventually get all of it back. 

2. R: What gods or goddesses did you believe in?

T: For my religion, I believed in the sole god, Aten. When I was born, my parents named me after him. My birthname was Tutankhaton, which meant " the Living Image of Aten". My name now is Tutankhamun because I abandoned my father's beliefs in Aten.

3. R: Did you have any conditions, like mental or physical conditions? Were you tall or short?

T: Yes I did, I had a "slightly cleft palate" in my head. I also may have had a small case of scoliosis, which means your spine curves from side to side.  That's a medical disease. I was about 5 ft. 11 in. tall. Whatever you consider that to be.  

4. R: Who first discovered your tomb? Were there many rooms or just one room in it? When your tomb got robbed, did you get your stuff back?

T: The first people to discover my tomb were the people of the names of Howard Carter and Lord Canarvon. In my tomb, there were about 4 or 5 rooms. The first room was a fake room that had a hidden door that led to the rest of my tomb.

5. R: Most people say that your mummy had a "curse". Do you believe in that?

T: Well, it is kind of weird that Lord Canarvon shortly died after opening my sarcophagus. He didn't die right when he opened it. People says that he had a mosquito bite on his neck and that's how he died. It's a belief. People are saying that whoever opened my sarcophagus would face the "Wrath of the Mummy".

6: R:  Why did people say that mummies had healing powers. Who believed in that?

 T: The '' healing powers'' of the mummies was this magical powder that the mummies had. It wasn't until my tomb that the media had started picking up on the healing powder. The people who believed in the healing powers were the Egyptians.  

R: Thank you Mr. Tut for the talk. I hope the people all over the world know more about you now because of this interview. It was an honor to speak with such a famous person. Thank you King Tut for your time. I'll remember this day for the rest of my life because I interviewed such a famous person.

T: You're very welcome. I always love sharing my story with the world. People out on the television, I want the world to hear my story in this interview. Thank you Mr. P. for your time.

 Image Credit

King Tut image by Valerie Everett- CC license 

Information Credit

King Tut's tomb

Religious Beliefs

The Curse of King Tut

King Tut's Birthname

King Tut's Murder

7 random facts about me are:

1. I play a lot of sports.

2. I went to Ocean City, Maryland, this summer.

3. I like to ride my bike.

4. I really like animals.

5. My favorite vacation was when I went to Mexico.

6. I have a lot of cool friends.

7. I like to zipline. 

Three of the 26 Amendments that made changes to the Constitution are:

1. The 10th Amendment states that any power not granted to the Federal government is given to the states and the people.

2. The 12th Amendment made changes to the way the President is elected.

3. The 16th Amendment granted the Federal government the right to assess income taxes.

Those are just three of the 26 Amendments are nation has.

The seven articles of the Constitution include

1. A rticle one outlines the Legislative branch of the government, also called Congress.

2. Article two lays out the framework of the executive branch consisting of the President and Vice President and the Departments of the federal government.

3. Article Three outlines the Judicial branch, the Supreme Court, and other federal governments.  That happened in June of 1788 when New Hampshire ratified its approval.

4. Article Four discusses the relationship between the federal government and the states, and the states themselves.

5. Article Five discusses how the Constitution can be changed or amended.

6. Article Six makes it clear that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land.

7. Article Seven says that the Constitution will go into effect when it is ratified by nine states.

These seven parts make up some of the Constitution.

Three main principles of the constitution are

1. The Seperation of Powers- The Powers are divided between the Legislative, Executive, an d Judicial branches.

2.The System of Checks and Balances- Each branch has some authority over another branch.

3. The Shared Powers- The Federal government shares powers with the states.

The 3 branches of Government all work together to make this process.