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Which Dog Breed is Best for Different Types of People?

5/6/2016

What do I know

I know that a bunch of kinds of dogs are able to help different people. I think that it is very helpful for the dogs to help the humans because if not the human is not able to do it without the k9.

What do I want to know

I want to know what dog will help what person and why that animal is so important. I also what to know how they help and how they are best for that type of person.

How will I learn the information

I will look at a bunch of websites that might give me a bunch of info and how that type of dogs help the person.

What did I learn

I learned how a few different types of dogs can help different types of people. I also learned why those dogs were preferred for that kind of person.

What action did I take

I made a website here is the link you can check it out!!

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What questions do I still have

I am still wondering why some dogs cant be as good for that type of person. Also why is that dog not good for that person.

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How can we teach people about the different formations and soccer moves? By Aidan and T.J.

3/3/2016

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We both know a few simple soccer moves. Which we will show in the videos about the beginner and intermediate moves.

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Aidan and I are on a soccer team together so we knew most of the basic moves and a little bit of the intermediate moves.

H

I will learn this information from videos/youtube, websites, documentaries about soccer stars, friends, and past learning.

L

We learned many soccer moves from websites to videos to friends, and we were still only 1% of the way of the soccer moves which we were learning.

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We made videos that described the moves, and then we put them on a website.

Q

We still have many to colossal piles of questions, but I am still wondering the physics of different size soccer balls.

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Can we learn about gliders and then make them out of household materials?(Mason and Mathew)

2/4/2016

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We know how aerodynamics work, we know how to make a paper airplane, we also knew that they have to have long wings and that they have to have the right amount of force and they have to have a certain part to them that helps them fly far.

L

We leaned that interfering with the airflow around the the wings can make it go farther, but if you use the balloon as an engine it barley works.

W

We want to know how to make a glider and we want to learn about gliders, but most of all we want to make a successful glider from different materials besides paper.

A

We first learned about gliders then we started testing the gliders and making all sorts of combinations, then we experimented with a lot of materials. We made a lot of videos and we watched how other people made gliders.

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We will learn it by researching about gliders, and by researching how to make good gliders and make our own and doing multiple tests and making multiple gliders and choosing the best one to improve.

Q

We still want to experiment with more materials and make the wings longer and I also want to use maniacal stuff like engines and try to use the right materials.

Matthew:
I thought that the project was really fun because it took a lot of creativity to make the gliders and come up with the design. It was also fun putting those ideas to the test, there was a lot of trial and error but there were a lot of good ideas to like we made a balloon an engine, we also used them as a parachute, and the best idea that we had was using straws to tamper with the airflow over the wings. I also learned a lot about gliders like they have to fly through a certain air flow and they can go as high as the stratosphere, and they get their power from a plane that takes them up into the air. Overall I think we made a lot of good gliders the best one being the one with the straws on it but I definitely learned that regular paper airplanes work the best unless you add a machine to one.

Mason:
I thought the project was fun, but I wish we had gotten more done though. Most of the gliders didn't fly very well. The original glider had for wings and the center was a paper towel roll, we called it the dragon fly. It flew one to two feet, the next glider was a paper air plane that had a balloon taped to the back of it. It flew terribly the balloon only slowed it down. The next one was ballon propeled... Still flew terribly. I feel that our project wasn't as good as past ones I've done. But I had a good time.

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Can I Teach Others Different Types of Origami Folds and 3-D Figures? By Regan and Shreya

2/2/2016

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What Do We Know

We know that there are lots of different origami folds, objects, and animals. and we can cut paper in a way that can help us with origami. We both have a good experience with doing types of origami and paper folding.

What Do We Learn

We learned mostly from each other lots of different origami skills that will allow us to teach others, and we gained some video making skills along the way. We also learned new ways to fold certain things we already knew.

What Do We Want to Know

We want to know if we can teach others about about different origami skills. Are question is, can I teach others different types of origami folds and 3D figures.

What Action Did We Take

We created a series of videos that teach others how to fold different types of 3-D paper figures, and how to fold certain origami folds.

How Will We Learn This Information

We will follow the steps on our Trello card and we will make a bunch of videos that will teach people how to make origami. We will also create a website that will hold our information.

What Questions Do We Still Have

We are still trying to find newer ways to fold certain things, and we are trying to come up with new things to fold as well. We are also trying to find how our product changes when the kind of paper varies in shape and texture.

Regan Reflection:

I enjoyed doing this passion time project because it is based on something I have experience with, and it was neat to learn new things about it. I hope my videos will teach other people how to do some of the things I demonstrated in them, and maybe give them a better way to do it if they already knew. I think that Shreya and I got along well throughout the whole project, and had no disagreements over anything. We had a bit of troubleI really had fun doing this, and learned a lot of new techniques.

Shreya Reflection:

I really liked this topic and I am glad I did it. I really like origami, and I learned a lot. I wish that we could have done more tutorial videos, but I guess that nine is enough. I liked the fact that we learned from each other so we did not have to look up how to make different origami figures. I think that me and Regan got along well together. I think that we do well on the videos. I also think that it was really cool making a website. It was kind of hard creating the procedure on our website because we had put all our steps on there. I really wish that we could have added more to our website because It only had two main things to see. really liked this passion time project.

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Can I Write A Fantasy Story With Aspects Of Fantasy Writing That My Peers Enjoy? Giuliana

2/2/2016

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What Do I Know?

I know that fantasy stories have elements that are fake. Some examples of fiction writing are the Harry Potter books, the Percy Jackson books, and most Roald Dali books. Most fantasy books have some sort of mystery or action in the plot. Most of the fake elements are of the author's creation, like different worlds, spells, etc. I also know from 2 passion time projects about writing that time management is key.

What Did I Learn?

I found out that my time management skills aren't great. I struggled to progress much at school and ended up doing most of it at home. I now know to not challenge myself to the extreme, but to the next level. I also learned that creating suspense in writing pieces makes a great addition. Another technique I used in my writing was making names and spells in Sundanese, a language spoken by very little people. It brought a mysterious element to the story.

What Do I Want To Know?

I want to know what my peers like about fantasy stories. I also wonder if it is easy to come up with a vocabulary for fantastical elements. Another thing I will surely find out during this project is how to give different characters personality

What Action Did I Take?

I wrote a fiction story using elements of fiction stories my peers enjoy and make a video reading it.

How Will I Find Out?

By making a fictional story using aspects of fiction stories my peers enjoy and make a video reading it. I will also use my knowledge of fiction stories and plots.

What Questions Do I Still Have?

I wonder if I could have modified my project to make it less complex for me. Also, I wonder if any of my classmates would like my story.

Reflection

I don't know why I keep on doing projects way to ambitious for the time I have. I always end up thinking about writing a long story. I now know that before starting a project I need to think: Can I do this in 10 hours? Other than that, this project did push my creativity to the extreme. I loved coming up with spells and what they do. It was also fun to choose names for different things and turn them into incomprehensible Sundanese words. I want to give my story a more official ending over the summer, which will give me something to do for a few weeks!

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What Will The Future Of Technology Look Like? By: Russell and Addy

2/2/2016

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What Do We KNOW?

We know that the future of tech will be very advanced. We also know that most of the tech in years will be super thin and light. We also know that hover boards have the possibility to explode so we will see if they will make new and improved ones.

What Did We LEARN?

We learned about what the future of mobile phones would be like, which was very interesting because today lots of us rely on a little box of technology to talk to people. We also learned what the technology would be like in one year and five year. It was cool because we got to look at what might come our way in the future! We learned that ATMs, the things that people used to rely on to get money, would be replaced by phones! This project was so cool and we definatly learned a lot!

What Do We WANT To Know?

We want to know What the future of mobile phones, computers, tablets, and what technology will be like in 1 year and 5 years. We also want to learn more about futuristic cars because we have seen them in movies but really want to know if they were to be! We are excited to learn and make a super cool website.

What ACTION Did We Take?

We made a website all about the future of technology and we researched tons of different topics and what they would be like in the future! We also took lots of time to make sure that our facts were solid and we worked really hard to find lots of information! We also make a hard effort to make our video on point! On our video we explained so much and we went in a lot of detail.

HOW Will We Learn The Information?

We will learn the information by researching looking at some pictures and asking some people what they think future tech will look like.

What QUESTIONS Do We Still Have?

Some of the questions that we still have are what will the world look like with all the new tech? What features be on the next Apple computer? Will Samsung become more of a big thing in the U.S.A? Will there be a tablet that will sell over 1,000,000 of them?

Refections:

Russell's Refection: My experience with round fours passion time project was one of the most fun projects I have very done. This project was a great learning experience because I got to look into the future. I learned that there is going to be a lot tech that will have disappeared. When we first started this project I thought it would take the entire 10 periods to finish. But here I am typing this refection with 3 more periods left in passion time. I think working with partner is much better than working by myself because we get more done and I seem more focused. All in all this was a great project and I am very happy of what we have done.

Addy's Refection:
This project was so much fun! I got to look at what the future would be like, and I learned so much about my partner and myself! I never knew that I like technology so much! It was so cool to research and see futuristic things that we didn’t put on our website! I also liked how amazing my partner was! He challenged me but also encouraged me! I also liked that I went back to a researching project because my last one was really long and didn’t include any researching! But this project still had challenges! It was so hard to find enough facts for the mobile phones page on our website! It was hard to find a phone that would interest others and give them some new facts that they had never seen before! Luckily, my partner helped me and it worked out! Something I want to do next time is try harder and find more facts! I really liked this project and hope to do something like this in the future!

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How have toys improved over time? By: Logan

2/2/2016

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What do we know?

They have changed the design and model. The logo has changed too like Lego. Nerf has changed from a sort ball to other sport balls.

What did we learn?

how toys improved over time and how the design, model, ect. And how other parts of toys have changed.

What do we want to know?

How has the design and model changed over time. What has changed about them.

What action did we take?

I made a google slide and made a video on what facts i had about how toys improved over time and got a lot done on the google slide.

How will we learn the information?

I will find it on google and study in books and ask for help from my fellow peers.

What questions do we still have?

How have other things have changed of toys changed over time and how they can make toys better in the future.

Reflection:
It was easy to get all the facts Because I had a lot of resources like my class mates and websites and stuff like that. It was hard to find what toy has changed over time and how it changed because some websites gave me a hard time by not giving me information.But in the end I think i did really well on making this and my video because I put a lot of effort and information in the video.My favorite part was gathering all the information about new and old toys. My least favorite was the websites that just had picture and like 3 words.

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How can I teach people about tenkara fishing? By: Andrew and Lucas

1/28/2016

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What do we Know?

We know that tenkara fishing is an Asian type of fishing. Also that the rods have no reels so you have to use your hands, and that it is made to be used in streams. We also know that you can't catch huge fish with it or your rod will break.

What did we learn?

We learned that tenkara fishing is a lot like fly fishing and not really like fly fishing. We also learned that tenkara fishing can't handle big fish. Also that it is made for small streams. Last we learned that it is a really fun thing to learn about.

What do we Want to Know?

Is tenkara fishing easier than normal fly fishing. If me and Andrew can make a working tenkara rod using school supplies. Also if you can catch the same fish as regular fishing and what the differences are in both types of fishing.

What Action Did we Take?

Lucas and I made a website to help others learn about tenkara fishing so more kids know about it. Also we made some videos on crafts for kids to do when they are bored and want to play a fun game or make a marking map.

How will we Learn the Information?

We will make videos and watch videos. Also that we will use google to find more information, and we will take pictures. We will also use the information we already know about tenkara fishing.

What Questions do we Still Have?

We are still wondering how we can land a fish, and how to tie the tippet on. Also how it got invented and how it got to America? Last but not least we are wondering what would happen if you got a big fish.

Lucas's
Reflection

I loved this project at first I knew nothing with help form Andrew and research in knew quit a bite.It was super fun to do the crafts section and build all the arts and crafts.The website was fun for helping me learn about TENKARA fishing so I liked that and making the website was fun in itself.This project is pretty hard But I liked it.The most fun thing was making the crafts section was my favorite for making.I learned a lot about tenkara fishing I learned that it is Chinese and that it is like fly fishing and not like fly fishing.It wasn't that easy I thought it was pretty hard.I could try to make more detail in the KWHLAQ.

Andrews Reflection

The easiest thing was making the website because we had such a hard time finding good facts to use. This is because it didn't take much work to create it and we knew how to make it. The hardest part was finding our facts that would work for our website. Also finishing our passion project on time. What was fun was getting work with Lucas and getting to do a passion time on something I love! I could try to find more facts next tome so I can have more information on our website for others to see. If any one wanted to do something like this I suggest that you have some background knowledge on it or else it will be a little hard.

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Can we design and build cars out of two or more motors and common things in the class room? Ben and Ryan

1/28/2016

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What we Know

We know that it is very hard to make a car with all of the aerodynamics and keeping the car on the ground, and making the car overall move. It is hard to make a real car but not as hard to make one that is small like ours will be. We know that it will take up some time, the wiring will be hard without having them drag. We know that it is also going to be a very fun project.

What we learned

We learned that to make a car you will have to know a lot about engineering so you can be able to balance the car and keep it controlled by someone. We learned that it can be more difficult then you would think, it is a lot of fun building it to because of the things to work together on and working with the wires.

What we want to know

We would like to know if we can really make a moving car without us having to push it. If making a car will help us with other electric things. If making a car that is small can compare to a bigger car and what the speeds compare in small and big.

What action we took

Me and Ryan took the action of making a car out of regular classroom materials besides the wires and motors. We decided to make a video of the car and how we made it. We also finished the car and it was able to move. The actions we took lead us to success and helped us with our project!

How we will do it

Me and Ryan will try to construct a car made out of materials that are around the classroom (except for the wires and motors). We will make the car by taking the two motors in the back with the wires going up to the top with two wheels with no motors in front.

What Questions we still have

We are still wondering how to make a car that we can control with a remote or how to make one level and not tilt another way. We were also wondering how to make a car with more of better materials and how to make our car any better without weighing it down. We were trying to figure out how to level it but we couldn't get it. We would also try to make a car that has four wheels instead of 3.

Reflections -

Ryan - I liked this project because it was a lot more fun then just researching. It was a lot more hands-on and I loved that, I think next round ill try to do something similar like a hands on building passion time (that's one of the main reasons I liked this). The stuff I learned in this round the final product of the car was insane to what we started with to me. It worked if you watch the video above you'll see some of the things we made it do it went in a good 35 circles around our lunch room from just a tiny 9 volt battery. I wish we could work a lot longer on this awesome passion time and would say do it to anyone.

Ben - I loved this project because we actually made a car that could move around pretty quickly. I think me and Ryan worked very well together on this project because we were able to make a video and compromise on what the car will look like and how it will work. I also really liked it because of all of the hands on parts of the activity because of making the car. Me and Ryan did have some flaws but most of the time it was very fun working with him. Ryan really helped me with the wiring because I didn't know how to do it that well, Ryan showed me how to do the wires and where to connect them. Overall I really liked this project and hope to do another fun one like this again in passion time.

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Can we find unique sports, learn how to play them, and make how-to videos? - Addie and Charlotte

1/28/2016

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What Do We Know?

What Do We Want to Know?

How Will We Learn The Information?

We know that there are so many unique sports in different parts of the world. We also know that the sports do not seem unique or different to them (the people that are playing the sports) because it is part of their culture. Just like, for example, football or basketball may seem odd to people from different parts of the world just because they don't play it normally.

We want to know if we can learn how to play different, unique sports that aren't regular to us. We are both very athletic and both know how to play so many sports, but I know that neither of us know, yet, how to play sports like blow ball or fireball soccer. We also want to know where all of these different sports are being played. We have some ideas on where they might be played and they might be Asia, Africa, Europe and Antarctica. These might be the main places that the unique sports that we will research will be.

We will learn the information by watching videos about people playing games of their sports. We will see different tips on how to play the sports in the best ways. We will look on different websites that say the rules and how to play directions. We will also give information in our how-to videos.

What did I Learn?

What Action Did I Take?

What Questions Do I Still Have?

We learned that there are many different types of weird sports, and we didn't even completely understand all of them. Like for example when we made a video for sepak tekraw we didn't completely understand it, although we got the just of it. We also learned that event the materials that these sports require are unique! Like for example, when we made a video for mayan ball we didn't have a net to use, instead we used to chairs and balanced a ruler in between the 2 chairs.

The action that we took is we taught others about the lesser known sports of the world. The way that we did this was we made videos on an iPad. We found the rules for each sport and tried our best to understand them and then made a video for it.

Some questions that we still have are how come the different cultures cause different sport opinions? Why don't people who come from different countries or states come to our state and country and have ideas to change our point of view on sports? Could some of these sports become what we call "normal"?

Addie's reflection:
This project was super fun and probably my favorite project so far. I think that Charlotte and I worked extremely well together. The hardest part of our project was probably finding unique sports that we were actually able to do with the materials available to us. Charlotte and I came across lots of sports that we weren't able to do and we were frustrated with. I think that the easiest part was probably doing the sports once we actually understood them. I think that me and Charlotte worked really well together and that we had tons of fun. I think that playing these sports

Charlotte's reflection:
I really liked doing this project because we got to learn about different types of sports from different parts of the world. The more challenging part of this project was making the videos though. The reason that they were so challenging to make was because neither of us completely knew all the tips and exactly how to play each sport. It was also hard because we didn't always have the exact thing or material that the sport called for. Like we needed a net for one of the sports, we improvised and used a ruler instead. But for some reason, that was also the funnest part of doing our project. I actually liked improvising and finding something that worked as a material. We had to look for different things that would fit what they actually use during playing the sport. Mostly I liked this project because it was just fun overall. I also liked working on finding different sports, because I like sports just in general.

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