Tesla and TINKERCAD (4th grade)

By Kadir Khali Ibrahim

This here is an Electric train. Some examples of Electric cars are ones with batteries, Like Teslas. Teslas are cars that run on batteries instead of cars that run on gas or gasoline. Also, Tesla have sensors that sense cars in front, behind, and beside them. They could drive themselves if you select a location on the iPad inside the car. The iPad inside of a Tesla is about seventeen inches long and is touchscreen. The sensors can detect if cars are beside it. And, It could also sense if you are possibly going to crash, If it does detect that, It will try to drive away from where the crash is detected to be. A Tesla is usually around $90,000 to $750,000. The owner of Tesla is named Elon Musk. He is a very powerful and rich man.The car has a 360 degree view of the things around it. A Tesla has a 250m for a distant of objects. An advanced Tesla can travel up to 0 to 60 MPH in 2.9 seconds. It is also rated for being the safest SUV. A Tesla can seat up to seven adults and has a capacity to tow up to 5,000 pounds. A Tesla Model X also has a Falcon Wing door. A Falcon Wing door is a door on a car that opens up and down by itself. The wheels size for a Tesla is usually 22" or 20" long. If you order a Tesla, It would usually take around 1 - 8 weeks to get delivered to you. It is also the most aerodynamic SUV ever, with the lowest drag coefficient on earth.

African History Powtoon (5th grade)

By Ava D
https://www.powtoon.com/online-presentation/crSEL761OnY/?mode=movie

My video is about how slavery was terrible and how Africans were enjoying life and taken and brought to be a slave. I learned about African American history. Also how when slavery was over they still were treated bad and how life was so unfair and still today we have discrimination.

Snowflakes (4th grade)

By Tamara and Sanida

All snowflakes have six sides. They all also have a different type of plate. The most common plates are thin plates and sector plates. A plate is partially-formed dendrite. A dendrite is a crystal with a branching treelike structure. The most important type of snowflake is the dendrite snowflake. All snowflakes include ice crystals, atoms, protons, oxygen, and hydrogen.

Save the Coral Reef Board Game (4th grade)

By Jayden O

Hi my name is Jayden. Today i'm going to be telling you about my game. So my game is called Save the Coral Reef. It's a very simple game. The goal/how you win is to collect 5 pieces of trash. It is a very colorful game, and it's very fun to play. There can be up to 5 players and yes there are instructions for the game. It's made out of card stock and paper. I colored it with markers. I took a couple months to make but yeah that's all i have to say. I hope you like it. People can learn how important it is to pick up trash and keep the reef clean. I also wrote facts on the backs of the cards so that people can learn more about coral reefs.

Opening a Pet Store Continued (3rd grade)

We continued our work on our pet store opening this week. Students brainstormed about which sections needed to be included and drew a layout of the floor plan. (See an example from Hannah below.) 

Students also typed up business plans in MS Word, explaining their business ideas, target demographic, marketing, and profit ideas. (See an example below from Natalie.)

Students also used TINKERCAD to make 3D designs of products that they would like to sell in their pet store. Featured below are a collar by Muhamed, a dog house by Natalie, and food and water dishes by Dominick.

Stay tuned- there is still more to come!

Racing Cars (5th) Grade

By David and Dionte

A formula 1 cars steering wheel can control almost every aspect about the car.The chassis in a formula 1 car is what everything is attached to it and its very light weight and strong.The engine of a formula 1 car has to be  rebuilt about every 500 miles because the engine runs at very high rpms  and that puts a lot of stress on the engine parts. Formula 1 cars teams use more than 50 different fuel blends.The cars engine can produce 900 horse power.The tires on a formula 1 car supplied by Pirelli and are made for different conditions the tires have to be very thick because when the car is going very fast the tires get worn down. 

Helping the Homeless (4th grade)

By Lilly and Katie

 From what we have done, we have learned that not only we matter. We have learned that when you helps anyone else or anything else, that you will end up feeling good inside. That is what we did. We held a fundraiser and all the money that we raised would be donated to Gateway 180. We raised over fifty dollars! We made the bookmarks that you see at the top of this post and we sold them for $1 each to raise the money. We also made a slideshow to educate other people about homelessness. We sold the bookmarks at our school's STEM night.
The people that live at gateway 180 are women and children. We learned that homelessness is caused by breakups, mental illness ,disabilities  and unemployment . We learned things teachers can do to help. We learned how many homeless students are in public schools and how they take care of them. We learned that some charities take more money than they should and end up with way less money given. We found out that some charities spend a lot of money on commercials and not on actually helping the homeless. We chose a charity that we thought put their money into helping.