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Can I teach people about the unique aspects of lizards? By Hazel

2/25/2019

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What do I know?

What do we want to know?

What action will I take?

Lizards tails will fall off if a predator try's to grab it by the tail.
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Lizards are able to conserve water by exerting salt.

If I can teach other people about the lizards aspects
I will study facts about how lizards live

​What did I learn?

How will we learn it?

​What new questions do I have?

Many lizards lay eggs while others bear live young. For example, a adult female lizard can lay eggs with even no mate.
By reading books about lizards
  • Are horses smarter than dogs?  
  • Can I make a book on red wolfs.
  • Are horse's bodies designed to sit?

Reflection

​  I learned a lot of things in this passion time, for example and female bearded dragon can lay eggs without a mate!  crocodiles cary there baby's in there mouths but some people think they are eating the baby's but then how would the mother be there? She is just caring for them.The most fun thing in this passion time was probably the reflection because I get to explain to people about how fun it is. The video was a little hard because I had to remember my lines for the video.Nothing was really easy but I do know that putting the pictures in was fun and east just feel good for that aligator! I think I would do the organization a little more different. If I had to give you some advice I would say don't waist your time on looking at pictures just pic the one you want and do it don't look up things off topic for example you are doing a passion time on dogs and you are looking up pics of it and you see a wolf or the cutest cat in hole wide world don't click on it stay on topic!!! 
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Can we make a list of the top 30 weirdest/creepiest Pokémon? by Matthew and Nick

2/25/2019

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What do we KNOW?

Pokemon we think are ​weird and creepy:
  • Gengar 
  • Mimikyu
  • Psyduck

​What did we LEARN

We learned that there are a lot more weird and creepy pokedex entries, because we extended it by 5 pokémon and we could've kept going.

What do we WANT to know?

What are the top 30 creepiest and weirdest pokemon.

What ACTION will we take?

  • Make a Google Slide
  • We will tell our parents.
  • We will tell our friends.

HOW will we learn it?

We will look it up on serebii.net.

What new QUESTIONS do we have?

  • What is it like inside a pokeball?
  • Where are the ultra beasts from?
  • Where are marshadow and zeraora from?

Matthew's Reflection

Nick's Reflection

           In this round of passion time I learned about weird and creepy Pokemon and where they came from. I enjoyed looking up the Pokemon and putting it on the google doc. The hardest thing was finding the Pokemon on serebii.net because the Pokemon we searched were not always weird (in our opinion). The easiest thing, however, was putting the facts on the blog post. Some advice I would give people taking on a project like this would be to go to serebii.net and look up dark and ghost types first. Something I would do differently next time would be to use multiple websites to find pokemon. Some new questions I have are what is it like inside a poke ball? 
            In this round of passion time I learned about Pokemon and where they came from. The part I enjoyed most was finding the weird pokedex entries, and the hardest part was finding the weird Pokemon, we had to go through Pokemon types, find the ones we thought were weird or creepy, look it up on serebii.net and sometimes the pokedex entry wasn't weird or creepy. the easiest part was putting it on the Google Doc. What I would do differently next time is, I would just do weird Pokemon because that was the one I enjoyed more.
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How did Stan Lee come up with his stories for Marvel super heroes? By Jeremiah

2/22/2019

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What do I already KNOW?

  • He die like to two months ago
  • He play in all movies and episodes he made
  • He never was a super hero when he made the movies episodes

What did I LEARN?

  • that back then he all so made Marvel  movies.
  • I also learned that he has a daughter named J.C.
  • I learn he was born on December 28, 1922

What do I WANT to know?


  • How did he come up with super heroes that he made
  • What inspired him to do this
  • How did he get people to do this for him

​What ACTION will I take?

make a video and and make a google docs about him so I can show every body about it.

​HOW will I learn it?

From a compter.

​What new QUESTIONS do I have?

how did he does he make it looks so realistic.

Reflection:

I learned that he was born on December 28, 1922.
The most fun thing that I did was do this project.

The most hardest thing that I did was trying to do the google docs.
The most easiest thing that I did was doing the KWH
Some thing that I could do differently next time is do it with a partner.
Give them a couple of facts about Stan Lee.
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What are the Biggest fish in the Ocean and how did they get so Big?  By Joey

2/21/2019

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What do I Know 

I know that the whale shark is currently the biggest fish that we know of in the ocean but there is still about 95% of the ocean for us to explore  so there is a good chance of a much larger fish in the ocean.

What Did I Learn

I learned that the Whale Shark is not the longest fish that we know about and the largest fish in the ocean to ever live is the Leedsichthys.

Reflection

What do I want to know

I want to know why the whale shark was able to get so big as well as the other biggest fish and if there is multiple ways they get big.

What Action Will I Take

I will make a YouTube video and upload it. I will also tell my class about what I learned and I will present it in a google slideshow.

How will I learn it 

I will research what the biggest fish are in the ocean and how they got so big I will also make a google slideshow. 

What New Questions Do I Have

I wonder If out of the 95% of the ocean that has not been discovered if there is a bigger fish than the ​Leedsichthys.
In this round of passion time my question is what are the biggest fish in the ocean and how do they get so big? I figured out that the biggest fish to ever live in the ocean is the ​Leedsichthys. They were around about 165 million years ago they were 30-54 feet long. They got so big from filter feeding which means they take in a big gulp of water then they let the water out there gills and eat all the small fish like shrimp, krill, and  algae. The whale shark is the current largest fish in the ocean. The whale shark also filter feeds. The whale  shark is 18-33 feet.
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Could I learn about Laurie Hernandez and her life as a gymnast, and make a slide show about it? By Isabel

2/21/2019

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What do I KNOW?

I know that Laurie Hernandez was a famous gymnast, and she made it to the olympics with Aly Raisman.

what did I LEARN?

I learned all about Laurie Hernandez's childhood and life as as a gymnast. Did you know Laurie Hernandez tore her patellar and tendon and got a dislocated kneecap on vault. I sure didn't until I started this.
 

What do I WANT to know?

I want to learn about Laurie
Hernandez's  life as a gymnast. Nothing really specific yet. 

What ACTONS will I take?

I will put a video on
Laurie Hernandez that I make on youtube. I'll tweet it out. I may tell friends and family about it.

HOW will I learn this?

I will google about her. Maybe find a book, use wikipedea.

What new QUESTIONS do I have?

Now I'm wondering about Laurie's dancing with the stars experience. Since I only learned about Laurie's childhood and gymnastics life, I'm wondering how her time on dancing with the stars went. I know her and her partner WON!

Reflection:

In this round for passion I learned all about Laurie Hernandez. For Laurie's childhood I learned that her real name is Lauren, her nickname is Laurie. Her favorite color is lime green. Laurie's mother was in the Army Reserve for six years so she taught Laurie a lot of important lessons, for example, to finish what you start. Now I learned all of this only in the first slide. In the next slide, I learned Laurie went to so many different meets some of which were all the way across the world, like the Junior Japan International in Yokohama. I learned a lot of facts that I never knew about Laurie Hernandez. One difficult Thing for me was when I was writing about Laurie Hernandez on google slides I found these really cool backgrounds I wanted to use. But when I put it on I it was hard to read the words. I tried many different colors, even my teacher tried helping me but we could not do it. So I had to change the background to one were I could read the words with it. I think one of the easy things was writing the slide. The recourses I used were very helpful so I new what to write and I did it. The most fun part about this passion time was learning all the cool things about Laurie Hernandez!   
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Can we learn about Alexander Hamilton's life? - Alexis and Sama

2/20/2019

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What do I KNOW

Hamilton was a founding father. He worked with George Washington.  

​What did I LEARN?

Hamilton became a founding father  by becoming  gorge Washington's right hand man

What do I WANT to know?

How Hamilton became a founding father. How he became famous with his knowledge and long essays.

​What ACTION will I take?

I will tell my parents and friends.

​HOW will I learn it?

By researching new facts and by making a timeline book from birth till' death. 

​What new QUESTIONS do I have?

Why did Hamilton aim for the sky in the duel.
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Sama's Reflection:
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Can we learn about Ancient Greek buildings and see how they are made and make a model out of every day objects? Oscar and Emmalina

2/13/2019

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What I know

What I wan't to know 

How will we learn it

The ancient greek where around in the 500 bc to 800 bc years ago
The ancient greeks had lots of interesting buildings in there times of life.

What did I learn 

  • Most of the buildings where from 500bc years ago and their still standing today.
  • One of the most famous architect of the ancient Greece buildings is (Sneferu).
  • I figured that Roma was founded by a guy named Romulas.​  
1. What where the most popular buildings back in the Ancient times?
​ 2.What were some popular buildings back in 500 BC?

What action will I take

I will show people what I learned by showing them me and Emmalinas slide show and our blog post. 
I will look on different Websites and see what information I can get off of that website.
We will find lots of different videos on Youtube that are appropriate and see what information we can get off of that video.  

What new Questions do I have

Who are some famous people who lived in the Ancient Greece times?

Oscar's Reflection

   My Passion time was really fun to do with my partner Emmalina. My passion time was fun to learn about the the hard times in Ancient Greece and 500 600 BC years ago. Learned that a lot of buildings in Ancient Greece where build by famous architects. I learned that 500 600 bc years ago where some tough times and people where a bit pour back then and did not have as much money as people have to day. People back then had buildings made out of rocks and dirt and today they are made out of bricks wood and other different things. Back then I learned that people where being badly treaded and that stuff. The buildings back then where kind of cool and where really ancient and stuff like that. the buildings had been build by people that no one knows today like (Sneferu). Some architects are really well known like Willis Carrier the famous person who build the Willis tower in Chicago. So during this period I really learned a lot about Ancient Greece buildings and their architects.    

Emmalina's reflection

     My passion time was really fun to do with my partner Oscar. We made a slideshow and a lego Parthenon. A couple facts is all I know I can tell you a couple. I will show you some facts. This is one of them. Ancient greece buildings where build 500-600 BC years ago. They were mostly build by well, slaves built them because the people who wanted the building be built was by the people that are rich and a bit lazy and did not want to build it their self. That is the only fact that I will tell you. The lego parthenon was a long process it took us like a month to do. It was a very detailed structure and it had at least 300 legos. This was a really fun thing to do. We built the parthenon like you saw in the slide show if you haven't seen it look at it after you read this reflection and my partners reflection.

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Can we Rank the Top 10 College Basketball Teams and learn why they were so good? By Nellie and Molly D

2/8/2019

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What do we KNOW

  • Villanova has won the NCAA  March Madness Trophy for the last couple years
  • Duke was pretty good
  • Kentucky was also pretty good
  • The NCAA has a ranking list already

What did we LEARN?

What we learned was there are some teams that were expected to go far didn't which made them lower on the list. Also some teams that made it in weren't the best in the regular season. But they did very well in March Madness which made them go up in our rankings. 

What we WANT to learn

  • Who is the best?
  • Why are they the best?
  • What are some of their strategies? 
  • Are any of them in the NBA now?

What ACTION will we take?

There are two actions we will take. One action we will take is making a youtube video. The next action we will take is posting this blog post on twitter. Those are the actions we will take. 

How will we LEARN

  • We will watch some parts of games
  • We will read articles
  • We will watch some of the team's practices if they show it
  • We will watch interviews

What new QUESTIONS do we have?

Some new questions that we have are:
  1. How did these teams come so successful?
  2. What was their strategies to become so successful?
  3. How did the teams that weren't so successful in the regular season become so successful in March Madness?
  4. How many games do they need to win to make it into March Madness?

Reflection (Molly)

​In this round of passion time my question was "Can we Rank the Top 10 College Basketball Teams from Last Season and Why there were so good". I learned many different things. The thing I learned the most about the teams though. For example, I learned that Texas Tech wasn't good at all before they got a new coach. The new coach made them much better. Before they didn’t make it to March Madness at all. But this year and the last year, they probably made it farther than they have in the past five years.  The most fun part was making the rankings. It was fun to make up how to rank and debating which teams went first. The hardest part was making the slide show. Because there wasn’t any articles about why they were good, we had to go off what we watched. The easiest part was getting the records because we could just go to a website and find them. Overall, this was a very fun passion time round.

Reflection (Nellie)

 This passion time was so fun and I learned a lot. The first thing I learned was what stats/records are. I want to say thank you to Molly for teaching me. The second thing I learned was that Wendell Carter Jr. was on Duke. I also learned a lot about Texas Tech and about how their coach helped them make it farther in the March Madness. And I learned about other teams too.  One other thing I learned was about technology. I learned how to make a slide show with themes. As I said earlier I had so much fun. The first thing that was so fun was that I got to work with Molly and she made things really fun. The next thing that was really fun was making the slide show and choosing it's theme. I also had fun making the video because if I messed up Molly made me feel better and kinda like it was supposed to happen. Molly and I also had a hard time with stuff too. The first things that was hard was finishing on time but luckily we were able to finish on time. Another thing that was hard was not getting stressed because I'm used to doing passion time by myself but I did it with someone else. It was also hard because when Molly and I originally came up with our question we wanted to learn how the teams got so good but because we were behind on time we couldn't do that and it was also because we really just couldn't find the the actual evidence of why they were good. Now that I told you about the hard stuff let's focus on something else like the easy stuff. The first thing that was easier was that Molly knew how to get the stats for the team and I knew how to make a slide show with themes. Which makes it cooler and prettier. The next thing that made things easier was that our friend, Joey, knew if the teams the other team played were either hard or easy teams.The last thing that made it easy was that Molly and I figured out that Sports Reference is a very helpful website. And that is my reflection for my passion time round 3. Bye
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Can we learn about magnetism and do many experiments? By: Inti & Filip

2/5/2019

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​a physical phenomenon produced by the motion of electric charge, resulting in attractive and repulsive forces between objects.
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​What do I know?

They attract each other by magnetite being inside the magnet.they have a repelling side and a connecting side.they are different in strength. It depends how strong the magnet is for how many layers it can attract though. Magnets come in many different forms like cube form, round form, triangle and last diamond form.

​What do I want to know?

We want to know what magnets are made out of and if there are different things that magnets are made out of? Also if magnets can be strong enough to reach really far. 

​​How will I learn this?

We will learn this by doing research and doing experiments with the magnets in water and on something metallic like a file cabinets. We will also see how far the magnets can reach to each other.

​What did I learn?

A magnet is a material or object that produces a magnetic field. This magnetic field is invisible.A permanent magnet is an object made from a material that is magnetized and creates its own persistent magnetic field​.A boron magnet is the strongest permanent magnet on earth!

​What action will I take?

​What questions do i still have?

I will research on a kid friendly website but if anything bad pops up I will not freak out.I'll also follow the trello steps. We will also upload a youtube video so every one on youtube can see it and learn all about what is in magnets and what they do.
  • What is a magnetic field?
  • What is magnetism?
  • how many layers of post-it notes can the strongest magnet go through?
  • What are magnets attracted to?
  • What are some uses for magnets?
  • What are permanent magnets made of?
  • How are magnets made?

by: Inti 

I learned that  there was also more research but that wasn't very hard for us because there is a lot of resources we used like wikipedia ,Kidrex, google.But even though me and Inti started before everybody else it's still  takes a long time to make a passion time project even if it's very known. we also tried working at the same time but it let one of us in the one who was first in even by an 0.01seconds. We also learned that if you put one magnet in water and one not in water and you move the one thats not in water then the one in the water will move and spin. If you put one magnet on the top of your hand and one on the bottom then if they are pretty strong magnets they should hold each other up. Magnetism can attract magnetic objects or push them away. Magnets ​ have a magnetic north pole and a ​magnetic south pole. If the same pole of two magnets are placed near each other they will push away or repel. 

by: Filip

I learned that it takes the different strength of the magnet to know how many layers of things it can attract through. Also that if you put down a magnet and you have another magnet then you can spin the magnet and they will both spin. The most fun for me was when Filip and I got to experiment with the magnets and make the video.But it was also very cool that we beat the record of longest magnet spin, we both tried to beat the record and we smashed it! our time was 59:89 seconds and our  record was 25:56!But it doesn't really count because there was no judge to see it.After that we tried to beat it again ... but it went slower but one of the spins was 50 milliseconds slower than our record so yeah we also we also learned that magnetism is more than just pulling and repealing from each other.  
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Can we learn about astronomy and make a model out of everyday objects? By: Molly S. and Kali W.

2/4/2019

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What do we KNOW?

We know that there are many moons and planets with different temperatures. We also know that the planets orbit the sun. Which makes the days and nights. The last fact we know is that there is no gravity in space.

What did we LEARN?

We learned about every planet and their unique qualities. We made a google docs on all of the planets and the galaxy.

What do we WANT to know?

We want to learn all about the sizes, colors, and moons of all of the planets. We want to be learning many facts about all of the meteorites and be experts at space.

What ACTION will we take?

We will take a picture of our project and then put it on our blog post. We will also tell our family and friends about the planets. 

HOW will we learn it?

We will gather facts from books and websites and then make a model of the solar system using only everyday objects. This will be a challenge because we will only use everyday objects.

What new QUESTIONS do we have?

Our new questions are how many planets and stars are there in the galaxy and entire Triangulum Galaxy? We learned a lot about astronomy. Also, How many stars and moons do each planet have?

Kali's Reflection:

I learned about all of the planets and what has happened to them. We also made a google docs about everything that we found out and then we printed it out and put it on our presentation. It was so much fun to paint the golf balls and put the glitter on the sun. We had a really fun time. It was really difficult to glue the planets to the board and the marbles also. But then we got a really good presentation when we used the adhesive stickers. It was easy to make the board and just glue the galaxy papers onto the board. That was fun also. We would have done one thing differently and that is we would have done the golf balls first instead of the Play-Doh because number one Play-Doh is not an everyday item and it broke so we decided to do over and that really paid off because now our project is much more stable and will not crack or break. It was a great passion time.

Molly's Reflection:

​I learned all about the planets and every  and their unique qualities. We made a google docs about the planet and there facts. I also found out that there are more stars in space than grains of sand. The most fun part was making our model we made it out of golf balls and marbles. We painted the golf balls to make them the planets. and the marbles represented the stars. We put glitter on the golf ball that was the sun to make that one look nice. We glued it on to a board with a back ground with a galaxy.The most difficult part was gluing on the golf balls and the marbles. The easiest thing was to glue the papers on to the board. I would work for a longer time on painting the golf balls. Advice that I would give would be to not make  your project out of Play-Doh. It crack's a lot and will break. We used Play-Doh at first and it didn't work. I think our passion time was really fun. It was great.

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Can we learn about spaceships and create a model of one. BY: Harrison and Edy.

1/31/2019

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​what do we Know 

That NASA is creating a new rocket for Mars. NASA already sent 5 or more rovers there. ​

What have I learned

I have learned that NASA is going to send helicopter drones to mars.

​What do we want to know

To see if NASA is sending spaceships or rovers to any planets other than mars.

What action will I take

I will create a google slide about it.

​How do I find out

I will look on NASA websites for information and record it on a google slides. Then we will build a space ship. ​

What new questions do I have

If there are aliens out there. 
 I learned that it is not always easy to do everything. The most fun part was building a model of a space shuttle and making the google slide show. The difficult part was making the google slide show. The easiest part was the model building. Next time I will create a bigger slide and not make a model. Also next time I will make a harder question. The advice I have to others is to take your time and work hard. Also you should try your best and hardest. 
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