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Just a few days ago, we did a lab in science on copper chloride and aluminum. We started with just a sheet of aluminum foil and mixed in a beaker with a compound mixture of copper and chlorine, but once mixed, it’s called copper chloride.

Once the aluminium had been broken down in the copper chloride mixture, we dumped out the copper chloride and started washing out the broken down aluminum foil.

That’s the water cleaning out the rusted aluminum bits. We did this a few times until the water was clear, and then emptied the beaker. After this process, the copper in the liquid traded places with the aluminum. Then to wash it one more time we used hydrochloric acid. After this, we used tongs to pick out some chunks of the copper and held it over a Bunsen burner. Here is a video:

Burning the copper

The blue flame was from the Bunsen burner and the green was the copper.

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Welcome to yet another of my wonder filled blog posts. This one is about superheroes and elements. In the beginning, we had a vote to see who would pick our groups for this project. The people we could vote for were:
1. The teacher
2. Ourselves
3. Simon…
And, the majority voted for Simon. He didn’t make the groups from a   biased position, as some people may have, he really thought about it and made good groups. I ended up with Robbie and Quinn. Next, we had to pick an element and study it’s physical and chemical properties. We chose Neon:

We then had to make a team name and badge based on what our hobbies are:

Then we worked on making a giant periodic table, because we were doing a Chemistry unit. During its creation we also learned about everything there is to know about the periodic table and it’s elements.

Thats about how far we’ve come on our Chemistry unit in class, she could back later on to see more.

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Hello,

When I heard about this, and when it was, I was a little disappointed. That’s because it was when my dad was working in Edmonton, and my mom wasn’t working either. I asked a few of my friends if I could tag along with them, but all their parents only could take their child. So, instead, I stayed home, and helped my mom around the house. I cleaned the kitchen, made preparations for dinner, and helped her make a small dessert. So, I have no pictures or video of my day in a workplace because I never went to any workplace. I would have liked to go with my dad because he just got s new office in north van and I would have had fun helping him set it up. He works in building insulation and fire stopping, and he does his work in some pretty cool buildings. Overall, I would’ve rather gone out and done Take Your Kid To Work Day than sit around at home.

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Hello, recently, we the PLPers have been working on an interesting project. It’s a combination of metaphors, a revolution, and a theory, all put into one. In the beginning, we were given a group, and a revolution to research. My Revolution is the Meiji Restoration, and my group members are Calum, Alex, Ruby and Makyla. Currently we are halfway through our project, and we’ve done quite well as a group. The main task was to create a Rube Goldberg type of machine that has hidden metaphors that represent parts of the revolution we studied. Now, our machine is not that complicated, it is a lot smaller as well. We also had to incorporate Crane Brinton’s theory into our machine.

As you can see, it’s difficult to bring it all together, but me and my group found a way. We have a wooden structure with four layers, and each layer represents each stage in The Theory of a Revolution.

So, you can see our frame and it’s four layers. At that time, Alex was marking where we would put our first metaphor objects. We have been working hard every class to build our machine. Here are some videos of us working on our machine:

Frame construction

Using the 3D Pen

After a few classes, we have our first working metaphor part:

Its hard to tell, but how it works is a gear will roll down and hit a part of this metaphor contraption, which tips the water bottle that dumps water into the funnel. This signifies the fall of a power in our revolution. We will have many more of these types of objects, they just haven’t been built yet. So, that is an update on our Metaphor Machine.

We also need to create a video showing the machine working, and the creation process. I’ll be popting again, so check back soon to see the full machine working and to see the video!

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Hello,

So, as you’ve seen in my title, me, Robbie, Ethan and Spencer designed and built our dream house. It started as pricing and measuring square footage of objects, and then we were given the task to use our new knowledge to design and construct a 3D model to go with our blueprints.

First, we chose a floor plan for our two floors:

 First floor Second Floor

As you can probably tell, we decided to make our house in Minecraft. We did a one block high model to see the design and room sizes. Each block in the game was equivalent to 1 square foot. After we knew what we were building the house out of, we started the construction. Our 3D model didn’t match our measurements exactly, but it still looked all right. Here is the outside of our final 3D model:

You are probably wondering what the heck is on the roof, so I, going to tell you. On the left, we have our overhanging pool with waterfall/diving board, in the middle a half court basketball court, and you can’t see it, but we have a tennis courts as well. We estimated our house was going to be $275,000 but once we added in our expensive items and features, we would say it’s more around $1,000,000 total. The total living space square footage is 1,830.

Overall, I liked this project because I like to design and build, and that was my favourite part: the building. I didn’t love the calculation parts because it sometimes was confusing.

Thanks for reading, see y’all later.

Hello,
This time on Ma Blog, I’ll be showing the process of a video I created in class. So, to start us off, I’ll explain the assignment. We were studying cause and consequence, and then our teacher gave us the topic of the railways to show our understanding. So, we all did our research and then drew up an outline to get our video ideas spinning.

This was my rough overview, it wasn’t going to be exactly what I put in my video. The app we mainly used for the video was Explain Everything. Sometimes at first it’s a bit frustrating, but once you get the hang of it, it’s a lot of fun and personally, I like it. I’d highly recommend it for any school presentations. Ok, back to the topic. So, after our outline was approved, we moved on to do our first draft of our Railroad Visual Essay video.

Here is mine

As you can see, it definitely needed revision. This was the first time I’d used the app in a while, so my voice over was terrible in some spots. I also needed to make it more engaging, right now it was kind of boring. My points I made needed to be more supported by my animations and speaking as well. After I received feedback, I moved on to

Draft number two

I fixed up my weaker slides by putting in more animations and redoing the voiceover in the bad places. I was happy, but the happiest, and we had to do a third draft anyway. Now, I’ve completed the third draft and I’m happy to say it’s my last one! Well,

Here it is.

This draft has good animations that go along with what I’m saying, and my voiceover has minimal mistakes. It’s more engaging and explains and supports my ideas well. I’m happy with it, and I hope you enjoyed reading and watching the steps I went through to get it there. Thanks for reading!

Hello, welcome back to my blog. This is the second out of three blog posts we are writing in our Metaphor Machines unit. So, in class we are reading a novel called Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld, which is in the genre Steampunk. Our unit right now is based on Steampunk and the industrial revolution. For this blog post I needed to find a question on the book leviathan and research it. My question is: “Would the Leviathan airship be an ideal airship nowadays?”

To show this, I made a chart that shows parts of the Leviathan airship, compared to a modern day blimp:

The biggest difference between the two is the fact that the Leviathan Airship is a living creature. It has built in mechanical parts as well, like the engines at the back.

This is definitely very different compared to a blimp. Now, we only use blimps for advertising, tours, and scientific observation, and not as a warship. The main reason I can think of why that is is because if the blimp gets hit with a few bullets, it’s gonna crash. In the book the Leviathan, the airship is shot at, and it gets a few holes in it, but they repair it quickly. The only problem they had was that the engines broke down. So, if we think about it, an airship like that wouldn’t be the greatest in nowadays warfare. It does have its advantages though. It’s quiet in the air, it’s a living creature so it eats to create more hydrogen, it has a whole ecosystem inside of it, and it has decent attack mechanisms. For example, the Leviathan Airship has creature called flechette bats that when scared, let loose all their lunch, which is filled with razor sharp spikes. The bats eat their food, which has those spikes in them, and it doesn’t harm them. Then when they are needed, they fly into the air and are guided with a spotlight to the target. At the right moment, the spotlight turns red in colour, which scares the bats so much that they let loose a rain of spikes.
Blimps don’t have any defence or attack measures because well, who’s going to attack an advertisement blimp? The structure is entirely different because the Leviathan has bones and muscle.

So in conclusion, the Leviathan would not be the absolute greatest ship in the warfare idea nowadays, but it would be good for transportation for important cargo and passengers. That is because it can fly for a very long time since it has its own ecosystem inside of it. And it has small defensive measures to ensure it gets where it needs to go.