Tag Archives: 6th Grade

Stocks

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In The Westing Game a character named Turtle invested in the Stock Market. So our class decided to invest $20,000 in up to six companies.  We first made formulas with Mr.s Sprague so we can calculate the amount of money we have made or lost really quickly. I decided to invest in Oracle, Apple, Starbucks and Microsoft. I saw most of these companies did not see much downfall and most were climbing up. I ended up very lucky and earned $1764.75. Overall, I had a really fun time doing this activity.

Ted Like Talk

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In my Ted like Talk I talked about the best vacations to go to. I chose this topic because vacations are a way for me to make memories with my family. Leading up to this presentation I hated public speaking and stuttered a lot all the time. During my preparation I always thought that I would mess up and embarrass myself in front of the class. To make sure that didn’t happen I practiced a lot so I could get my Ted like Talk down. And I did. I made sure I gave examples of all my vacations and at first put way too much. But I narrowed it down and made it so it was just under five minutes. 




During the actual presentation I felt really scared right before. I was panicking and thinking I was gonna mess up. But once I got up on the stage I felt a lot better and felt more confident in myself. Once I started speaking everything went smoothly and I made very few mistakes. Personally I didn’t like this project at first but once I did it I felt really accomplished and I feel like if I had to do something like this again I would definitely do it. Overall a great project.

Heat Shield

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In Science my group (Ian and Beck) and I  made a very cool heat shield but we had some problems at first but got a lot better at the end. When we first tested our group wanted to test a steel plate. That completely failed and the hot side was colder than the cool side which means the heat just went right through. We knew we needed a change so we used lasagna, metal lathe and tinfoil for our next text. That did a lot better with the back side only being 20 something degrees Celsius. We learned that lasagna worked so we went with that in our final design.

In the final design, we pretty much kept the same design with one more layer of lasagna. That ended up being a vital mistake. When we wanted to do our final test on the flamethrower we felt pretty confident. We put the shield on the stand and pretty much immediately started the fire. We were already off to a bad start. When we were done our egg had a tragic 4mm of cooking. Even though our egg was cooked we learned a lot and had a great time.