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Which candies are the worst for you and which are better? By Daniel and Gavin.

2/26/2018

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  • Candies really are not very healthy for you
  • They have a ton of sugar and fat
  • Which candies are the worst for you
  • Which candies are better for you
  • Are there any candies that are healthy
  • Youtube videos
  • Websites
  • Ingredient lists

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  • I learned that some candy have a lot of calories.
  • We learned which candies are the most healthy and which ones are the least healthy.
  • We learned how the candy is actually made.

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  • The actions we will take are telling others which candies are more healthy and which one are ok to eat and which ones are really bad for you.
  • We will also know which ones we should eat.

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  • Are there any secret ingredients that are really bad for you in candy.
Daniel Reflection
I think that me and Gavin did really well on this project and this project might have been my favorite one yet. I think that we did so well because we didn't just do like 5 different candies we actually did a ton of different candies. If I had to rank myself I think that I would do 8/10 just because we didn't get all the candies but we still go a lot and learned some cool facts. The coolest things that I learned was how much sugar some of the candies actually had. I thought they had a lot like maybe 15 grams but what I learned  was candy like Sour Patch Kids have 36 grams of sugar in them. I also learned that some of the gummy candies actually are made with animal remains and they use it to make the gummy bears gummy. The thing that was probably the most fun about doing this project was getting to actually see how much sugar and fat was in the candy because it was just crazy to see. The most difficult thing was probably finding accurate nutrition facts because sometimes it would come up with different candies. The easiest part was probably ranking the candy with then info we had because some were really obvious on how unhealthy they were. Something I would have done differently next time was maybe add a few more candies because I had a lot but I think that maybe I would have been able to add a few more. Some advice that I would give to other people who were doing this project would be to make sure that the nutrition labels are for the right candy because other labels come up that aren't that candy or sometime the companies like Twix or Snickers that also have an ice cream sometimes the ice cream comes up instead. All in all I think that we just did pretty well on this project.
Gavin Reflection
I think Daniel and I did really well on our project. W e did really good because we learn a lot of fact about candy and how candy is made. Also we did how is candy rank from their nutritions facts. The cool things that I learned was that some candy had 200 calories and another one had 60 calories.
Then some candy have the remaining of other animals like gummy bears. Some candy that uses not just sugar is gum balls they have a little rubber on it to make it chewy. First of all I thought gumballs had a lot of calories and fat but it only had like 60 calorie and 50 fat. To rap it up I think we did our project really good when we did our project on how is candy made and can we rank the candy from least to greatest.
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How can humans and dogs communicate? How do they get trained? Can I show others how to and try it on a dog? Ian and Miley F.

2/26/2018

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What do we know?

  1. People have been able to train dogs with objects like treats​
  2. Human have been able to communicate with dogs but not easily
  3. there are people who train dogs for a job
  4. Dogs can be train by their owners even if the they don't know how to
  5. My dog is not trained and we really want to teach her.
  6. not all dogs are no trained some are when you get them
  7. dogs are like baby's they don't know what you are saying unless you teach them
  8. If you repeat a word when they do something they will learn what you are saying
  9. Not all trainers train the same way some use different methods then others
  10. Dogs can try to communicate to their owners or other dogs with barkers are signs

​What do we want to know?​


  1. How do dogs learn what you are saying to them?
  2. How do dogs stay trained and not go back to not listening?
  3. What is a K9 taught to listen so well?
  4. How can I show other how to train a dog?
  5. How do dogs do dogs know when and what you are saying?
  6. Can I teach the dog to speak back to me?
  7. Have dogs always heard you speaking to them since they were young?
  8. Do dogs choose to listen to you?

How do we find out?

  1. I will use websites like, wikipeda​
  2. I will use model to show my project
  3. I will use youtube to research 
  4. I will show my project with objects to help me in the video like, a leash

What have I learned?

  1. I learned how to make a dog listen to you
  2. How to make your dog do things you want it to do
  3. That if you make your dog feel good it will listen better.
  4. There a certain ways to train a dog that I never knew before
  5. I learned new tricks to train your dog.
  6. I learned how to communicate with dogs.
  7. That some tricks may look easy to teach but they have lots of steps
  8. You Can teach you dog how to speak back to you and do cool tricks like open a door.
  9. You can teach a dog what an object is and even Nouns and other educational tricks
  10. Once your dog is able to do one trick it makes some other ones easier. 



What action did I take?

  1.  We learned ways to train dogs on youtube.
  2. We created a website on how to train dogs.
  3. We made a video explaining some way how to train a teach your dog things
  4. We both taught people are favorite things we learned in the video and the website.
  5. ​I atemted to try it on my dog and see if some of them worked on her.


What new questions do I have?

  1. Is there more advanced training I could try to learn?
  2. If so, how hard will it be to learn how to train dogs with the more advanced training?
  3. Are there names for certain types of training?
  4. How does your puppy or dog alway know the thing you trained it to do, How does it comprehend it? 
  5. Do certain dogs learn tricks and get train better in an specific way?

Mikey's reflection


I learned a lot of things during this passion time. I learned how to teach a dog many tricks including shake, sit, speak, and rollover. I also learned the tests that they give dogs who are training to be guide dogs. The most fun thing was learning how to teach a dog how to shake and learning what guide dogs have to do.. Sadly, I never got to actually teach any dogs. I would have taught my dog to do the tricks but I don't have a dog. The most difficult thing was learning the steps to communicating with dogs. This was hard because the videos were kind of confusing. The thing that was  the easiest was learning how to teach simple tricks like sit. For example, all you have to do for sit is hold a treat over there head. Next time I would probably go over to a friends and teach tricks to there dog. some advice I would give is to start with the easier tricks, then get on to the advanced ones. I say that because it gets harder to teach dogs more advanced tricks because there is more steps involved in teaching the trick. It also gets harder to get the dog to comply with what your trying to teach it.

Ian's reflection

I learned about everything I really wanted to know. I learned how to teach dogs tricks, training, and ways you can communicate with your dog. The thing I had the most fun learning about was how you could teach your dogs crazy things like opening a door. I had fun learning about this because I never thought that dogs could be so intelligent to the level where they can tell the different between different objects. I enjoyed knowing this things so I could try it on my dog. The Thing I liked the most was seeing all the cool tricks you could teach your dog. I was able to try some tricks on my dog and it was super fun. I was actually able to teach my dog to go in a circle which is pretty cool. The thing I had a problem was knowing which way when training a dog was the best. There was over five to ten way to make your dog to listen to you but I didn't know which was the best one. The thing that was the easiest for me was finding way to teach your dogs certain tricks. For example I searched how to teach your dog to roll and a bunch of information popped up on it. If I had another chance I would have wanted to do a video of me teaching my dog some of the things I learned. Some advice I would give to someone is that it might be hard to teach your dog these thing but they aren't as hard as they seem. I would also tell someone that you might think teach your dog is not fun but if you do it with a fun purpose you will have the time of your life.

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Can we create a website on sports equipment, and how its made? Then explain the videos in an easier way to understand? By Will and Wes

2/26/2018

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What Do We Know?

  • All sports require at least 1 type of equipment in order to play in a league.
  • That each sport equipment being manufactured could easily be hard to understand or confusing.​
  • That knowing how sports equipment is made is pretty cool, especially if you use that certain equipment. 

What Do We Want To Know?

  • How lots of sports equipment is made, and to understand it well.
  • Some different types of a sport equipment is made.



How Will We Learn It?

  • By watching how its made videos, then explaining them in an easier way to understand.
  • By researching multiple factories that make a certain equipment.
  • By creating videos of us explaining how it works. 

What Did We Learn?

  • ​We learned how golf balls, bowling balls, hockey pucks, baseball bats, footballs, and baseballs are made.
  • We learned that the laces in baseballs are sewn by people, or hand-sewn.
  • A football helmet air drys for a better finish.
  • If a golf club weighs to little, then they add 18 gram weights, or 19, depending on how much more weight it needs.

What Action Will We Take?

  • We could make as much as we can explained easier that talks about sports.
  • We can tell others how things are made. 
  • we can show family members our videos of us explaining them easier.

What Questions do we have?

  • Why is explaining the way a piece of sports equipment hard to do?
  • How did the manufacturing of the equipment change from the start to how there are making it now?

Reflection

Will : I learned a lot about sports equipment that I didn't know, but I wish I could have gotten more videos of how they are made explained easier. Although some of the how its made were very complicated. Like the how its made bowling balls, and how it's made hockey pucks were really hard. The most fun was watching the how it's made videos then trying to understand them, especially watching some videos that were very interesting like the how its made metal golf clubs. But some of them weren't fun because they were very hard to understand, like the how its made golf balls at first. It was really difficult to understand the how its made hockey pucks, Wes and I didn't even get to understand the hockey pucks enough to do a video on it. It was really easy to understand how football helmets are made, like it wasn't very complex. Next time I would probably try to make the question less generic, Wes and I stopped at a certain point then had extra time and could have done more. This is because our question didn't have a stopping point, well it did but It had so many how its made videos on sports that we couldn't have explained all of them easier. I advise If you do a project like this, then you should make the question more specific.        
Wes : I learned a lot during about sports equipment and I leaned that some types of sports equipment are hard to make. I now know a lot about how sports equipment is made than I did before I started this project. The thing that was most fun was looking at full on just how it was made that was the best part because me and my partner got to discuss what we would say in the video when we explained how it was and in a easier way and that was fun. the difficult part was when we were making all these videos and the period ends the next period we would have to restart the video and some of the information that we got for the How its made videos was hard to explain and they would be difficult. For example, How its made hockey pucks was the hardest because there was no idea how to explain all the complex word they were saying. The easiest thing was making the website because all we had to do for the website was put in the videos and then the link and boom its done. Something that I would do different next time is not get distracted by the fact that Im using a computer on youtube. Some advice if you want to this project then make sure you can explain how sport equipment is made and make sure you simplify what you are explaining.
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How Do Online Services Like Twitter, Youtube, and Snapchat Function?

2/23/2018

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What do I Know?

  • These types of services require a lot of servers and storage to store all the archive and everything else.
  • A lot of money has to be put into the services to fully work.
  • They need a lot of backup servers because in case of a server(s) failing. 

What Do I Want To Know?

  • What happens when these services lose their money?
  • What is the exact amount of money spent on these services.
  • How much money has to be invested in these services.
  • How much money per money do they spend for these servers?

How will I Learn this?

  • Google Search
  • YouTube Videos
  • Company Blogs

What Did I Learned?

  • Whenever a service like Vine lose their money they stop their service and sell their company, archiving all of their stuff like Vine.
  • Youtube is worth over 80 billion dollars!
  • Youtube was bought from Google in 2005 and in 2005 Youtube looked similar to a Google video browser.
  • It has been said that Youtube's everything costs about 490 million dollars per year.
  • Twitter holds multiple companies like Vine for example.

What Actions Will I Take?

  • I will make a website talking and describing all about these types of services.
  • Finally I will make a video showing the website.

What new questions do I have?

  • How much money does Google spend on everything?
  • How much money does Snapchat pay their workers?
  • How much money does Twitter spend on their workers?
  • How did/do companies don't go bankrupt without having any ads, promotion, or in app purchases on their social media/network?

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I learned that people have to invest a lot of money to start a reliable social media. Companies spend a bunch load of money everyday just to host their social media platform. Youtube is one of the biggest platforms ever out there and they have to handle a lot of data every day! More then a petabyte of data! The funnest part of this was learning about all of this. The reason why this was so fun is because learning how much data they transfer everyday was just amazing. I couldn't believe how much storage Youtube and Twitter would have to store and how big they got over just a few months. The most difficult part was not trying to plagiarize a lot of things from what they said. It was just so crazy that I would want to copy everything they said, but I knew I had to say it in my own words and the translations for all the bigger words took me a longer time. The easiest part was making the video, this didn't take me too long, all I needed to do is to record and introduce my website. Next time I would probably do everything in order. I kind of skipped around everywhere and just did things randomly.  I also recommend other people to go in order and to take your time. Another thing that I recommend thing for people to do is to actually take their time on things like LAQ and KWH because most of the time I just quickly do it and I don't spend much time on this and it's not my best quality that it can be.
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Can I draw a 3-D hand, make a video on it, and create a website that teaches people how to draw one? By: Gianna P.

2/23/2018

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What do I know?

  • I know the tools that I will need like skinny markers, a pencil, a ruler, a black sharpie, and a piece of paper. 
  • I know that it will take more than one try to get it perfect and actually looking like the hand s sticking out of the paper. 
  • I know that I will have to be really careful and precise when using the ruler, and I will have to make sure that my pencil doesn't move when using it. 

What do I want to know?

  • I want to know how to how I will be able to get the lines perfectly in line with one another. 
  • I would also like to know how to get the colors to the point where they don't overlap, so I will need to concentrate a lot on the coloring so that I does not mess up.  

How do I find it out? 

  • I will find it out by watching youtube videos, and I will be looking at pictures to see if my drawing resembles the pictures. 

What I learned

  • I learned that you need to be very precise and careful while you draw it
  • While you use the ruler you need to make sure you have it perfectly lined up
  • You also need to make sure that you have everything lined up to the right lines when you draw the finger's curves
  • You need to make sure that when you trace your hand you trace it not too small and not to big it needs to be a perfect hand without curvy sides

Actions I will take

  • I will tell people that they should look at my website if you want to try something new and try something cool
  • I will tell people that they should watch my video f they want to learn how to draw something cool and 3-D like a hand

Questions I still want to know

  • I want to know if I would be able to draw some more 3-D things like be able to actually make a hand that stands up on a paper.
  • I also want to know if I could make an animal pop out of the paper like its head or its body is sticking out  

My Reflection

During This Passion Time project I really learned a lot. I was very excited for this round because I was creating a 3-D hand. It took me a while to make one that looked very good because I was always putting the lines so close together but then I made one where the lines were further apart and the final product looked so much better than the others. The picture above is the one that I was very happy about it looked the best with the shading on the sides. I also figured out that I need to erase the trace of my hands to make it look more 3-D. It looks so much better when you shade the edges because it looks more realistic. I am very happy that I didn't stick to the small spaces in between each line because it wouldn't have looked as good. Something that I could've done differently this time is probably trying more new things because I spent so much time just trying to perfect the small spaced lines but it wasn't working and I didn't know that I should do smaller lines until the end. Something I wouldn't have changed is the way I did my last draft because I really liked it and it definitely looked the best, I am very happy with the way it turned out. I decided to do this project because I wanted to try something new and I wanted to try something I thought would be fun. I thought that something like this project would be fun because I love to draw and color and I thought it would be cool because you never know if it will look good. It might look like a 3-D hand or it will just look like a hand on paper so  could fail or be successful. I think that my project was pretty successful in the end. It doesn't look that 3-D but it doesn't look like a traced hand either. It is slightly 3-D and I think that I did the best I could and I liked my project's final drawing. 
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Can we learn about Nazi internment camps and create a website using the information we learned? By: Olivia and Kya

2/15/2018

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What do we know

  • We know that some people gave there lives for others
  • The interment camps were horrible because of what they did to people
  • There were many ways that they killed people

What do I want to know 

  • I want to know the things that they suffered there
  • how did they treat the prisoners

How do we find this out

  • I will look it up and find websites
  • I can watch appropriate youtube videos 
  • I can find appropriate books about the topic

What have we learned?

  • We have learned that during the time that the concentration camps existed a lot of people saved each other from these horrible camps
  • That a lot of children and adults were killed
  • That some people escaped these camps
  • What a holocaust is 

What actions will we take?

  • We teach others to treat each other fairly
  • We will tell others about our site

What new questions do we have?

  • Why did the nazi create these camps?
  • How did people escape these camps?
  • What was a day in the life of a person in these camps?

Reflection (choose a few): 
  1. What did I learn?
  2. What was the most fun?
  3. What was difficult?
  4. What was easy?
  5. What would I do differently next time?
  6. What advice can I give others who are doing a project like this.

Olivia's Reflection

  While I was researching the Nazi concentration camps I found out that at these camps they automatically killed the people who were disabled upon arriving because they would not work because they were disabled. They tested different drugs on children and sometimes instead of killing them and then sending them to the cemetery they automatically sent them there. The thing that was most fun was learning some people that helped people during this period of time. I think that finding appropriate websites that had a lot of information was hard. I decided not to watch youtube videos because in them there was some inappropriate photos and video clips. Most websites had a link to a inappropriate video, a inappropriate video showing on the site, or inappropriate pictures. I knew that there was going to be some inappropriate things when I started the project but I did not think there would be this many. I think that the easiest thing was putting it into my own words and creating the site because I had already created 2 other websites. If anyone wanted to do this I would recommend to try to have a least a few ideas of appropriate resources to use. ​​

Kya's Reflection

     This was a fun project because I LOVE history. I Love learning about things that happened in the past because if there was something we did that was bad I could learn from it. I learned from this passion time that you should never judge people on their race and that they are no different from any of us. Yes, I already knew all this stuff, but I learned the real effect it has on people. The most fun thing I did during this project was that I got to make a google form and I had never done that before, I thought it was very amusing. I also loved having time with Olivia, that was fun too. The one thing that was easy, was finding information and pictures, it was also easy to make and figure out how to do the google form. Something that was difficult was when I had to write the information on my website because I had to figure out how to write it down so that it made sense and it was also hard to make sure I did not plagiarize. Next, time instead of doing my own page and Olivia making her own, I would have both made all the pages together because then it would have been more of a team effort. My advice for someone who does a project like this is that you have to make sure you work together a lot, otherwise you won't get things done.Another piece of advice is that you have to share information with each other, like me and Olivia did, so that you could know as much as possible and so that your site or book or whatever it was or is could be better. My last piece of advice is that you have to use your time wisely, so that you can get things done and if you are focus that would help too because then you would be able to make what you are making it's best.    
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Can we Make a Comedy Skit and Record it? Brynna G and Carmen P

2/15/2018

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http://www.cheekymonkeycomedy.com/comedy-writing-masterclass-hobart/
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K - What Do We Know?

W - What Do We Want To Know?

H - How Will We Learn it?

  • How to write a script.
  • How to use a video camera.
  • How to use iMovie (Somewhat)
  • How to use a green screen.
  • How to edit and overlay or video.
  • How to add audience sound affects.
  • How much different iMovie on a laptop is from a mobile device.
  • We will watch youtube videos
  • We will talk to Mr. Solarz
  • We will research, on the Internet

L - What Did We Learn

  • We learned how to use transitions in IMovie
  • We learned how to cut things out in IMovie
  • We learned how to set different backgrounds on IMovie
  • We learned how to crop the screen in IMovie

A - What Actions Are We Going To Take

  • We will show people our videos
  • We will tell our jokes to people
  • We will also show people how to use iMovie because we learned how to

Q - What New Questions Do We Have

  • Since we didn't actually use the green screen, we still want to know how do you use the green screen?
  • We want to know how to put backgrounds on iMovie with us still being able to be seen.

Carmen's Reflection

      I really enjoyed doing this project because it was doing something I actually enjoyed doing. Also doing it was Brynna made our final project better because she came up with good ideas of what to add to our skit. She is also very good at using iMovie so, she had some pretty good ideas about what we could add to our video. The most fun part of the project was choosing what jokes we would use for our skit. Probably the most difficult part of this project was learning how to use iMovie on a laptop because it is way different from on a mobile device. I can give others who do this project the advice of making sure to know your script very well before you actually start videotaping.

Brynna's Reflection
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​          I had so much fun doing this project with Carmen and she was a great partner to do this with. The main thing I learned was the functions on iMovie. I usually use iMovie on my phone, and I thought it would be the same on the laptop, but it wasn't and that took a long time to figure out. The most fun part was when we were editing the video we took on iMovie because we could do different things and cool transitions. The most difficult thing was trying to figure out how to work iMovie and how it functions. The easiest part was filing the actual video, even though we messed up a lot of times. The thing I would do differently next time is coming up with more jokes so our video would be longer. 
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Can I plan, choreograph, and record a new music video to "Cups" in a School Setting? By: Lucy P.

2/13/2018

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My reflection 

           What did I learn? I learned how to manage a large group and how to choreograph a a dance. Also I leaned how to do the cup song with cups. Another thing I learned is how to manage weebly and the colors, fonts, and sizes of everything. I think all of these are valuable because it tout me to work with computers and with people, some of which I don't know very well. What was the most fun? The most fun thing was shooting the video. That was most fun because we were all laughs in the out takes. Also it was the most fun because Mr. Solarz was in it too. What was difficult?  The most difficult ting I did was shoot the video because it took so many takes, and it was hard to organize. What was easy? The easiest thing was probably making my website. That was easiest for me because I have experience with it and it was me explaining things to people which I LOVE!!!! Another thing that made it easier for me was I learned how to change stuff such as: changing the font, backgrounds, and making more pages.What would I do differently next time? One thing I would do differently is I would have a couple less people because some people were not free, then other were not free when others were. I was so hard. What advice can I give others who are doing a project like this?  You should get a good camera and have fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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What Relationship did Gavrilo Princip have with Archduke Franz Ferdinand  and how did his assassination lead to World War 1? Owen and Tommy.

2/8/2018

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What do we know?

  • The assassination started World War
  • First time using tanks flamethrowers and gas
  • Lot of empires in the war

What do we want to Know?

  • Was Gavrilo Princip a contract-killer?
  • Had Archduke Ferdinand do anything to Gavrilo Princip?
  • Was Archduke Ferdinand an important person?
  • WHY did the war start?
  • Why did other countries catch on making a full-scale war?

How will we learn it?

  • Google search
  • Wikipedia
  • Watch YouTube videos

What have we learned?

What Actions will we take?

What new questions do we have?

  • An Archduke is the son of the Austria Emperor
  • Gavrilo was 1 of 6 assassins
  • The reason they killed Ferdinand, the son of the emperor, was so they could split from Austria-Hungary and make Yugoslavia, a new country
  • Gavrilo was a teenager at the time he killed Ferdinand
  • Gavrilo was a Serbian
  • Ferdinand believed that the Serbians were "pigs," "thieves," and "murderers." though considered the fact that this could lead a political situation worse than it already was.
  • Gavrilo Princip died of Tuberculosis 3 years 10 months and 20 days after he assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in the Czech Republic on April 28, 1918
  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand died near the Latin Bridge, in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914
  • At the beginning of the war U.S was thinking about joining Germany until they where really argrissve and caused a lot of chaos 
what we did most of the time I watched a video and if there was a good fact I would tell Tommy it. But some times he watches videos while I do the website. And make our video we showed the whole ww1 and describes  trench warfare
  • what would happen if Germany won  
  •  why didn't the Ottomans or Astro Hungarians get in huge trouble like Germany
  • What would it be like if there was no ww1
  • what if Archduke was not killed




Owen's Reflection

          I learned a lot on youtube like how trench warfare and how the whole world war 1 I also learned stuff I didn't knew about it like Belgium was a battle ground, Russian revolution and I watched the duck and cover video of ww1. I think it was fun making our video because we had little army guys. So we made trenches and Tommy had his side charging. it was really hard getting the soldiers to stand. We first try to use pillow to stick inside but it would fall through so we used math books. it was pretty easy learning because the first video I watched was 80% of the stuff I learned so learning was pretty easy. I liked the way I did but I would of spend less time learning and maybe spent more time on reflection. If any body did this I suggest this pat 1 part 2 video that really helped me and go onto kids facts it also helped me.

Tommy's Reflection

          I learned a lot about World War 1! I didn't know much in the beginning but I found interest in this topic because I like learning about wars. I think the most fun part of the project was making the video. In the video, (it's the one at the top of blog) we explained World War 1, trench warfare,  the Christmas Truce, and the Red Baron. The hardest part was trying to come up with a title. I couldn't think of one because it can't be used already and it has to be a question. The easiest part was finding facts about World War 1, I didn't think it would be that easy but there was this amazing video my partner, Owen showed me. If I did this project differently though, I might've tried to add more ways to find facts. All I said above was Google, Youtube Videos, and Wikipedia. If I had to give a word of advice to somebody doing this project, I think I'd have to say: If you make a website, make sure to fill out all the pages on it. There were a few that Owen and I didn't get to do.
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Can I create several comics using different media (e.g. Comic Life, paper & pencil, Scratch, etc.)?

2/5/2018

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​K (what do I already know?)

  • I know about comics and what they are (funny, usually use multiple people, etc.)
  • I know how to use scratch, pencil and paper, and more for my comics
  • I know what an idea for the comics I make could be (a kid who goes to school, with a mum and a dog)

W (what do I want to know?)

  • I want to know how easy/hard it is to come up with comics, and what types of comics are easier and harder to make
  • I want to know how to use different things than what I usually use (Comic life, scratch, google drive for comics, etc.)

H (how will I learn it?)

  • I will  learn it through making mistakes and discovering new things
  • I will learn it through thinking a lot and probably having lots of troubles
  • I will learn it through taking my time, and hoping that I don't do something that will ruin the whole thing.
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L (What I learned)

  • I learned a lot things about scratch, like most of the different blocks and their functions.
  • I learned about computers a little bit when taking a picture of my pencil and paper comic, and when trying to download the offline version of scratch.
  • I learned that the comic that I had in mind was too hard and would take too much

A (Actions I will Take)

  • I have a "all my passion time projects" website at www.mypassiontimeprojectssite.weebly.com, and I added another comic site at www.mycomicsrhere.weebly.com to it.

Q (Questions I still have)

  • I wonder if there was any way to make my comic more life-like without taking ​forever. Like, is there something that would make the movements kind of glide, instead of just teleporting?
  • I wonder that if I had been more focused and only did the one comic, would I have been able to finish it in the 10 periods I had for passion time?

My Reflection

       Questions I will answer: What was the most fun? What was difficult? and What advice can I give others who are doing a project like this?
            The thing that was most fun was watching the comic unfold and work, and see them almost come to life on scratch. It was fun to look at the comics and website I made and go, wow. That was a job well done, although it could use a bit of improvement here and there. The most difficult thing was probably trying to get the comics to work, and if they weren’t working, to try and find the bugs. But even after finding the bugs, I had to fix them. That process of testing, seeing the bug, finding the bug, and finally fixing the bug took up most of my time while making the comics. When doing a comic on Scratch (if you’re doing one on scratch), then start small. Do other things after you’ve made the first small comic, and if you have time after you’ve done all of the other things you need to do, them you can go back and make your original comic bigger, or another one entirely.
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Can we make origami vehicles out of paper? By Caleb and Shaun

2/1/2018

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NOTE:  THIS BLOG POST MESSED UP.  THAT IS WHY WE MADE A NEW ONE.

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 K What do we Know?

W What do we want to Know?

  • How to make the world record paper airplane that flew  69.14 meters (226 feet 10 inches)
  • ​How to make a website for paper planes
  • We know how to make paper air planes
  • We know how to make simple stuff with paper
  • We know how to make other origami projects, even if it's not a vehicle
  • We knew how to make paper planes out of paper
  • We knew how to make a really tiny paper plane out of a post it note
  • We know how to do hamburger and hotdog folds which are just vertical and horizontal folds
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Our website

H How will we Know?

  • Trial and Error
  • Google
  • Books
  • Background Knowledge
  • YouTube
  • Creativity


 L What Have we Learned

  • We learned how ​to make a simple car
  • We learned how to make a unique plane that looks very different
  • We learned to memorize certain crafts

A What Actions will we Take

  • We made our very own website to go with our blog post
  • We made a video and showed many origami creations

 Q What we Questions do we have

  • We don't know how to make those really complicated car
  • We do not know to to make other projects, even if they are not vehicles

Shaun's Reflection

Caleb's Reflection

Doing this passion time project with my partner has been a blast!  After brainstorming a lot, we finally found the idea to learn how to make origami!  But that wasn’t enough. We decided to learn more with cars and other vehicles! That’s when our project was approved and known as, “Can we make Origami Vehicles?”  Our work started and we researched how to make cars, planes, and much more. I learned a lot too. I learned how to make planes with different abilities and how to make a boat.  I now know how to make cars too! I loved working with partner too! It was Caleb and he was really nice and fun to work with. That was one of my favorite parts of this Passion Time.  Also, I did good with Trial and Error.  It was hard to explain what happen to our video and decide to make a new one. We were making a 25 minute video when the computer didn’t save! Mr. Solarz said he really just cared that we did it in the first place, but me and Caleb were still really disappointed.  Because of that, we made another video that was 28 min. long.  But, easy things were finding videos to research the projects we made. The different thing I would do would be to focus more on our Website and Blog Post rather than just research. My advice to others when doing this project is not to do too advanced projects, but just right.  I loved this project, it was super fun! I think this has been one of my favorite Passion Times!
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First I learned that paper vehicles are very hard to make. I think this because of all the random terms like water balloon fold just things like that make this a whole lot more complicated. But luckily we just did simple things like paper cars and paper planes. The hard thing hard thing was finding a car that was not impossible to make. Also it was hard to find the perfect video meaning like the person was helpful and we were able to understand the how to make the plane. Also We have to make sure that we have the right paper and that we have the right supplies. But all in all this was a very fun project because we really got to express ourselves in the form of paper. What I really liked about this project is we got to make any vehicles not just like planes or cars we got to make any vehicles. This has to be easily one of my favorite projects. Also something else that I like about this was that it was it was a artsy project Bye! (If you are doing a project like this be creative you don’t have to follow the exact rules.) P.S We had made a first 25 minuet video that did not save we we made another video hat was longer than the other one.
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