Change. Some people hate it. Some like it. But it’s always here. Some people create lots of change, but sometimes not for the better. The most well known people like this lived during the renaissance era. These people include Leonardo da Vinci, Francis bacon, Raphael, etc. During our unit on the renaissance we learned about these people, what they did, and the tension they caused.

Firstly, we were put into groups. I was with Alivia, Jamie, and Raina. We were given the topic of agriculture to research. We had to make a notebook presentation about the changes in agriculture from the Middle Ages to the modern era, and each of us had to make one page about one era. I did work of the renaissance pages.

We researched a few deferent ways, brainstorming, Google searching, etc. After we found our info, we made a book in book creator. Our book focused on the topic of changes in agricultural tools and farming techniques that came into being during our assigned eras. My pages talked mainly about crop rotation and forage crops. Crop rotation was a technique used to allow nutrients to seep back into the soil. By growing different crops each season, specific nutrients can seep back into the soil for the next time the need to be used.
Forage crops are crops planted to feed farm animals. This was mostly hay, but sometimes farmers grew other crops like clover. Nowadays its still mostly hay, and this is where the common hay bale or hay roll.

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The next part of our project was to create an invention that would help people around the world in our field of expertise(our topic). We decided to make a robot that goes inside a tree and controls one branch to preform labor induced tasks. The goal was to reduce labour and free up time for farmers to pursue other things they wanted too.

We made our model out of paper towel tubes and paper. We put it in a plastic cup and stuck some dirt in it. Our model is a model of a fruit tree with a TreeBot inside it, and it goes off into a branch.

We had to pitch our idea to a company related to our topic, and we chose john Deere. Sadly, we couldn’t get John Deere to actually come, so we pitched our idea to Mrs Willemse and Mr. Hughes.

Change can help a society grow. It can also tear it to shreds. Very rarely to changes benefit everyone, and opinions are usually split when it comes to large change. One thing I took away from this experience was that even the most rediculous, crazy idea can be a worthwhile idea.