Eating our plate tectonics model

In the plate tectonics activity we used a candy bar as our model for tectonic plates because the inside contents was like the molten rock underneath the thin layer of crust on the surface of the earth. In the end we got to eat the candy bar which was great. The project was fun because it looked just like tectonic plate but also looked like a delicious candy bar which made us excited to finish the project. It was also fun because we didn't have to right to much it was more of like a fun educational activity.

The top layer of the Mars bar was the earth's crust and the thick gooey inside was the mantel the caramel was perfect because it was gooey and resembled molten rock.The Mars bar was a perfect representation of the crust and the mantel but not the other layers underneath. What I would expect to see when two plates pull apart is a valley or crater that goes down deep almost like if you cut your skin it's like the middle of the cut. A boundary is a convergent or divergent form of tectonic movement.

When I stretched the two parts away it started to brake of. That type of boundary is called a divergent boundary it is when two tectonic plates move opposite direction to each other.

When I pushed two pieces of the candy bar together they stuck to each other but what I think would happen in real life is that they fight for space creating tension thus when one gives up it creates an earthquake.

The questions I still have about this topic is-

• That how did they find the exact location of the shape of a tectonic plate?
• Is their a way of predicting large scale earthquakes?
• And how?
• How deep is the earths crust approximately and how did they find out?

Rhastafari

Rhastafari is a Jamaican religion that I made an I movie about I started off with choosing a belief system that I was curious about so I could learn something new. then I went to citelighter.com and gathered notes and facts. The next thing I had to do was plan out the script. after I did the script I made sure I could read it clearly and easily after I got done with that I prepared my I movie and got to work with gathering my images and sighting them properly otherwise my grade would be low. I then organized the photos and recorded my voice in sections so I had time to think. after that I made final touches to the I movie and exported it to Google drive.

   

A Day in the Life of an Ancient Eygiptian

I started by constructing my Voki avatar then I used sight lighter to gather our notes.After that I put them together to make a script I tried to use the Voki recorder but it wasn't working so instead I used AVR (awesome voice recorder) to record our script. After that we uploaded the recording to the Voki web site and it was finished. To see my Voki look down the screen.

 

Ancient Egypt Presentation

The ancient Egypt presentation was a lot of fun we started of with our meeting up with our assigned partners then. The we got to work. We started of with watching Mr Mongardi make a preview of using prezi it was quite simple but complex at the same time. After that we used sight lighter help us with the note tacking. I was assigned with Aadit and Henry they were good group mates and we worked pretty well together. We started to construct our prezy using the sight lighter notes.

We constructed the prezi with a series of slides that had photos, we had to sight the photos using an organized format. then we made a citations page. We started to practice our presentation.We had to memorize our presentation but I suggested that we memorize the main idea of our parts and that way we could say it smoothly. the presentation went well and was quite exiting. our presentation ended with a reasonably good grade.

Mesopotamia Reaserch

The research process- The research process took the longest because there where a lot of steps involved in collecting sighting and organizing information and facts but luckily Mr Callaway gave us a website that we could use as an add on to collect and organised information. The website was called Cite lighter it helped me a lot to keep my facts organised and cited.
The first part of the process was gathering facts and information using Cite lighter. every time we captured a fact Cite lighter helped me cite it and then after that I captured more facts about Babylonian life style under Hammurabi II it was really interesting and i learned a lot about him and his people and economy.
The next part was organizing all my facts, introduction and conclusion in Cite lighter I also had to make an introduction and conclusion from scratch. After all of that I exported it to Google drive. In Google drive I fitted all the facts together so the would be organised and the different facts led to one another. The last part was just some final touches like spelling text size font color and other stuff.


What would I change- If I had the chance to do some thing differently I would have spent more time in citations because my citing was not organised and not complete.

Cite lighter- Cite lighter helped me a lot with organisation and fact citation witch was very useful and made my life 10 times easier I would recommend cite lighter for anyone who wants to wright an informational essay.

To read my research paper, click here

GarageBand

Garageband

GarageBand is a cool app available on the iPad to make audio (mp3) files, and we used it to create our radio show about Homo Habilis.

Garageband is simple to use. To begin, you open the app by tapping the icon on your homescreen. Once it opens you will be able to create a new “song,” which is what the projects are called on GarageBand. You can also record your voice, you can also play with instruments and you can also export whatever you have to your Email and sent it to anyone like your teacher or friend.

Early Humans

Early Humans

Out of all of our early human ancestors, during this unit we learned about Australopithecus Afarensis, Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus, Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis, and Homo Sapiens Sapiens. Each hominid was more advanced than the ones which came before it. To begin with, Australopithecus Afarensis was the first hominid to be able to walk on two feet , which allowed them to use two hands to hunt etc...

After that, Homo Habilis came along. Homo Habilis was more advanced than Australopithecus Afarensis, and was able to use tools, which allowed them to hunt in an easy way.

Next came Homo Erectus. In addition to what Homo Habilis could do, Homo Erectus was able to use Fire to cook food, which allowed them to not get food poisoned.

After Homo Erectus came Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis. They were able to control fire and had communities, which allowed them to resolve conflicts in a less violent way.

Finally, along came Homo Sapiens Sapiens, or “Early Modern Man.” These advanced hominids were able to talk and communicate easily and also built better more efficient homes , which allowed them to live a more luxurious life.