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Game Laws Exponents

Hello welcome back to another blog its a new school years which means you guessed more blog posts (yay).  

So in this project we used a exponent laws and exponent is for example 2² which would be 2 to the power of 2 the small to being the exponent and the bigger number being the base. How a exponent works is you take the base and times it by itself as many times as the exponent number so for example 4³ would be 4x4x4.  Now two things 1. Complete shocker I’m not a math genius (gasp) I know shocker right just like I’m not a science expert 2. There are multiple laws of exponents pictured here.  

So now that you have seen all of those laws lets talk about our game I say our as this was a group project so our game was about invading other countries on a game board you start by picking 1 of 4 classes: thief ,mage warrior, and commander.  We used lego mini figures to represent these four classes.  

So our game overall was good we acquired the accomplished on it.  The reason for that was we made our game very complex and people couldn’t play it unless we were talking them through it. 

Here is what our game board looked like

 

 

 

So now to do the curricular competencies yay

So first competency was: Reasoning and Analyzing: use logic to solve puzzles and play games.    Basically saying is the game simple and working with a point system to determine a winner. For our game we had that except our game was not very simple it was very complex in terms of rules how you attack and defend and deafest other players. So overall we did ok on this competency but again we could have done much better if we had made our game simpler.

Competency #2 was communicating and representing: represent mathematical ideas in a concrete pictorial and symbolic forms.  Meaning a set of clear complete personalized instructions are created for each player to take there turn and game has 4 or more different exponent laws in it. We did this in our game and came up with cool game mechanics and worked hard to integrate exponent laws onto our game. 

Applying and innovating: all group members contribute equally basically its the learning without distractions.  So I’d say I worked pretty hard and was not distracted in class by games or things. I missed the first 2 days but then came back and created the baseline for our game. So overall I’d say I did good on this one.

So you’ve read all that now it’s time for the Milestones.

So Milestone #1 was we created in groups of 2, 3 separate dice games 

Here they are 

Milestone #2 was a game rules first draft which all be honest didn’t go to well as there was still a lot of details that needed to be ironed out.

Milestone #3 was a Khan Academy qiz

Milestone #4 was a paper quiz

Milestone #5 was the 2nd game rules draft this one went a lot better as by this time we had made more clear rules and game mechanics. 

Milestone#6 was the final game which we switched with the other Scimatics class so they could try our game and we could try theirs. 

Milestone 7 is obviously the blog post. 

Wow thats a huge information dump sorry now for this project my partners were Noah and Cooper (the names are links). 

All righty thats the project thanks for reading have a fantastic day

And remember that Carter=Blog

Comic Cells blog post (last one of the school year)

Greetings All I’m back with probably the greatest blog post ever (not really). This project is my last blog post of grade 8 (yay) so this was a scimatics project and it was fun like really fun we made a comic so like already one of the best projects. Second only to the scratch coding that was probably my favourite. Anyways this project was about cells like red blood cells and such,and how they interact with other things in the body. So we had a choice we could pick photosynthesis, disease interaction, and cellular interaction. I chose diseases but let me explain a little bit about the other two. (Quick disclaimer this may come as a big surprise but I’m NOT a medical expert (gasp) I know I know but some facts may not be 100% accurate and such sooo yeah also if you experience any symptoms see a doctor) Ok on to other stuff

Photosynthesis is when plant absorb sunlight and other things like water and turn it into energy. It is also common knowledge that plants produce oxygen they do this when they have leftover food (solar energy and nutrients from the earth) and it turns into a gas call carbon Dioxide (air) it’s more complicated then that but all leave it there.

Cellular interaction sound pretty straight forward how cells interact with each other like red blood cells carry oxygen and hemoglobins and what not. I think it’s complicated so I won’t explain to much but basics. So here we go. Cellular interaction refers to the direct interaction between cells on the surface that play a crucial role in development and the function of multicellular organisms these interactions allow the cells to communicate with each other and the rest of the body.

OK that was a lot but now onto my topic DISEASES INTERACTION!!!! (I have know idea why I’m yelling)  ok so disease interaction meaning how diseases interact with other diseases and each other and cells and stuff in the human body. So my disease was Malaria so some stuff i say will be diseases in general and some stuff will be Malaria specific. So lets start with where it started it when a military doctor by the name of: Alphonse Laveran was in a military hospital in 1880 discovered the parasite in Algeria More info here👉 link 

So it begins when a female mosquito bites a already infected person (also how it spreads) so the plasmodium (which like the first stage) develops in the mosquito and then when the mosquito bite a different person the plasmodium becomes sporozoite and is injected into the human blood stream, where it move quickly (30 minutes) to the liver and invades liver cells and here after a 7-10 day period the sporozoite erupts and turns into merozoites (Malaria parasites) and those merozoites cause the liver cell to rupture releasing them. Then the merozoites attack the Red blood cells and invade them and self replicate inside the red blood cells then the red blood cells would rupture and at this point you are experiencing symptoms of Malaria example: high fever,chill aches sweating etc. So the merozoites kept on replicating and replicating until there’s a lot of them. But don’t worry your body has a defensive system in bone marrow (which is like inner bone layer) Neutrophils which is a type of white blood cells are being mass produced as a direct response to merozoites (this right here is disease interaction) so these Neutrophils are deployed into the blood stream and they destroy merozoites and infected red blood cells.

Wow that was a lot but were not done yet because its time for everyone’s favourite part Curricular Competencies (yay)

So Curricular competency #1 was Questioning and predicting: Demonstrate a sustained curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal interest.

It’s a little different this time however it means pretty much the same thing but it’s specific to this project it says class time is used for learning and creating a comic book story abut 1 of the 3 topics.  So I showed this in All of the milestones really I achieved a proficient understanding of this skill which shows in the other 2 competency’s.  Where I think I really showed this is in Milestone 5 because I put a ton of work into it and it turned out exactly how I wanted it to Milestone 5 was also finished comic which you will see later.

Curricular Competency #2 was scientific communication communicate ideas, findings, and solutions to problems using scientific language, representations, and digital technologies

 meaning how well can I communicate my knowledge through the comic book. 

I achieved a extending mark on this Competency because I worked hard I best showed this on the comic book again because I had lots of accurate information on my comic. 

Curricular Competency #3 was Evaluating: Demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of evidence.  Meaning how can I integrate a virus characters and have them interact in a scientific way and have a logical outcome/end to the story I achieved the extending mark on this one because I had my virus characters interact with the blood cells and they integrated very nicely. 

So now onto the Milestones.

Milestone 1 was a project start mind map 

Milestone 2 was a Disease Wanted poster. So we chose a disease from the 1400-1600 I chose Small Pox

Milestone 3 was a khan academy quiz about cells 

Milestone 4 was a storyboard outline of what our final comic would look like all show a few of the scenes 

 

Milestone 5 was the final comic we used comic life for this which made it easier because we had cool fonts and convenient box’s for us to put our images in. 

 

One other thing we did in this project to start was watch Osmosis Jones which premiered in 2001 and is about a white blood cell and a cold pill fighting a virus called Thrax AKA Big Daddy Thrax (not joking thats one of his names) learn more ————> here

So thats it people the final blog post of grade 8 and scimatics 8 but never fear I shall be back next school year with more posts 

Goodbye and don’t forget that School is over I like noodles and Carter=blog 

P.S this is my longest blog post ever at 10,96 (not counting the number or these words)

(Stay tuned for a “I’m bored post maybe if I feel bored”)

ULTIMATE DESIGN CHALLENGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(sorry for yelling)

So welcome back to another blog post this project was called the Ultimate Design Challenge.  This is a Scimatics project so this was a group project my partners were Dylan (who is definitely a human) And Ben links to there blog are there names.  So because their is a Scimatics project we had to do math so our group made a recycling bin designed in the 3D modelling software we had to use called Tinkercad (Tinkercad is a link to there website)d (insert image) 

I know it’s beautiful so there are 3 main shapes so we had to decide wether we wanted maximum SA(surface area) and V(Volume) so because we made a bin we decide that maximum volume would be a good idea so we broke down our bin into 3 main shapes triangular prism rectangular prisms and cylinders and the lid. here are the shapes 

 

So here are the calculations for all of our shapes 

 

Another thing we had to do was get the ratio of SA to Volume. 

Which was:0.60119219062619:1

So after that you know what time it is thats right its time for Curricular Competencies (yay)

 

So Obviously because it’s Scimatics competency #1 is Applying and Innovating,Applying and innovating: Contribute to care for self, others, community, and world through personal or collaborative approaches. 

Meaning all class time is used effectively with out distractions. I definitely did not do as good of a job at this as i could have and it impacted me and my group greatly. I could improve this by not playing games and such and getting my group members back on task as well. Me to focusing impacted the other 2 competencies quite a bit. So overall I still achieved proficiency but  BARELY.

#2  Reasoning and Analyzing: Model mathematics in contextualized experiences

This means can I design something using Tinkercad that is optimized for maximum SA or V

I did ok at this one but our group missed a few core things we did not have 10 shapes and some people did more work then others. So a I said earlier our recycling bin was maximized for volume and it was according to our ratios which was Sa is the first number second is Volume so I guess we successfully made our bin 100% could have improved on it in multiple ways. To improve next time I would read the criteria and make a more advanced shape and definitely share the work more and make more then 1 shape. 

And the final competency is Communicating and Representing: Explain and justify mathematical ideas and decisions

So like everything is calculated correctly and and our measurements are correct and compared and shown accurately in a Keynote. Again because our group did not use time well our presentation was rushed and we forgot multiple things and we mislabeled stuff.  Because of this our group did not do well on this part. 

Now onto the driving question which was “ The relationship between surface area and volume of 3D objects can be used to describe, measure, and compare spatial relationships“ and yes they can like with a recycling bin.

And what you all came to see recycling bin content

 

 

 

All right this was a long post but yeah. Alright goodbye and don’t forget that CAR†êr= BLOg

 

Character without spaces count 2,470 with spaces 3,005 and 541 words

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Chemistry Coding A Scimatics Project

Good Morning/Goodnight/GoodAfternoon.

I’m back with a scimatics blog post so this project was Chemistry Coding. In this project we learned about matter and its different forms and diffrent states of matter on elements i.e water of magnesium. To code this we used scratch (learn more here——->scratch) scratch is block coding for more info on that Here. So we had a choice make either a simulation or a game. I chose simulation because I thought it would be a better way of showing my knowledge then a game. And because this is PLP we have driving statement: “The behaviour of matter can be explained by the kinetic molecular theory and atomic theory”

So because this was a Scimatics project we made a mind map to start the project this was milestone 1

 

Milestone 2 was we had to show 4 elements that were on periodic table my elements were Magnesium,Carbon,Lithium,Nitrogen we had to list how any protons neutrons and electrons there are in each element

here are some images

 

 

Milestone 3 was a Atomic theory test

 

 

 

Milestone 4 we made a list on what we wanted to put into our game/simulation

 

 

Milestone 5 was the scratch final product here’s some of the code I used

 

 

 

 

 

And Milestone 6 was this blog post

 

Core Competencies Time

So Core Competency #1 was Questioning and predicting: Demonstrate a sustained curiosity about a scientific topic or problem of personal interest.

Meaning can I ask questions and show a curious interest in the topic. I did ok at this skill I probably could have used my time better and then I would have showed my understanding better.  I could improve this skill next time by not getting distracted by things around me.  

 Core Competency #2 was Scientific communication: communicate ideas, findings, and solutions to problems using scientific language, representations, and digital technologies

So when we coded we needed to include scientific words and ideas and images. So what that meant for coding is we had to have accurate information and depictions of how certain molecules move and what temperature they react at. I showed this is Milestone 2 when we had to chose 4 elements off the periodic table and find out how many protons neutrons and electrons there were. I did pretty good overall on this skill  how I could improve this would be to code better on Milestone 5 like coding particle collision. 

Competency #3 was Reasoning and analyzing: Use logic and patterns (including coding) to solve puzzles and play games.

This one was for the coding part of the project and I did really well on this I had two elements magnesium and Water and and using certain keys like T for temperature I made them move accurately based on what the temperature was.I could have coded particle collision if I had time so definitely should have used my time better.

So after all this we added to our MindNode with stuff we learned throughout the project. 

So two Main highlights of this project 1.the coding in general because I love coding and using scratch was fun and simple. 

2. Was a gem stone identification challenge this challenge was Mr.Gross (the teacher) got some  gems and we had to try and figure out what type of gem they were by using density spoiler The were topaz.  

Now what you all probably came here to see the final game 

 

 

 

So just FYI for better experience click the link here ———> Matter Simulation 

So this project is over now and I’m sad because this was a fun and unique experience 

Anyways Goodbye And don’t forget that coding=fun I=BLog And you=awesome 

Bye.