In our Scholars Semeinar, we spent the year learning about the brain. We read articles about positive and negative effects of screentime on the brain. We also learned about the development of the brain. After we had gathered all this information, we split into groups to create a project about screentime effects on the brain. […]
Saving City X with 3D Printer Powers
Humans have just landed on an alien planet, and they’ve found an area for their first city, City X. The only resource they brought with them was a 3D printer. They were starting to encounter some problems that they needed our help to solve. We were given a challenge to create new inventions with the […]
Fast Food Is Slowing Us Down
When you sit down at your favorite fast food place to eat a yummy burger or treat yourself to some bottomless fries, do you ever think about what that one meal could do, besides satisfying your hunger? Well, it’s time to spill the fries because fast food makes a bigger impact that that. Fast food […]
Journaling the Ancient World
Here is my presentation! I hope you learn something new!
Creating a Coastal Barrier to Save Fudai
Fudai is a small fishing village on the coast of Japan. In March of 2011, a tsunami hit the coast of Japan. It destroyed all of the villages, except Fudai. The secret of Fudai’s survival was their seawall. Unlike the other villages 10-meter seawalls, Fudai built a seawall that was 15-meters tall. Mayer Kotoko Wamura […]
An Impact on me from my Family Tree
I created a family tree so that I could learn more about my family. I interviewed some family members to use in my tree. I interviewed my siblings, parents and grandparents. By creating this tree, I learned about my family members and my life was impacted by some of the interesting things I learned. One […]
Similarities of our Styles
I created a survey for my family which I could analyze to learn more about the personal paths of my family and compare them to mine. I found many similarities and differences and I was also influenced by the information, too. The responses for the first 2 questions of my survey show that my family […]
A Modern Myth
Why is the sky gray? Why is the sky gray? If this is a question you have been wondering, here’s your answer. Once there was a little blue bird, who flew each day through the happy sky. The blue sky. One day, a new species arrived, man. Man made fire that filled the birds […]
Mystery Bag X-ray
For this project we had to observe 10 paper bags and figure out what was inside. Using our sense of smell, sight, sound and touch, we made a hypothesis about what was in the bags. We then had to make a model explaining what we thought was in the bags. After making a model, we […]