When a creation doesn’t work, just call it modern art
Welcome to the last Scimatics blog ever, wow time flies. For this project we were tasked with creating a product, selling it, then graphing how much money we will make. If you want to watch the final product, you can see that here: Understanding and solving To start off we learned about all the math…
Welcome back to the latest scimatics project, where once again I have two similar words of which I know nothing about. This time those words are mitosis and meiosis, so let’s go on a journey to figure out what that is. To start off as always we made a Mindmap to see our knowledge at…
A Rube Goldberg machine, it’s a completely overcomplicated chain reaction of events to accomplish a simple task. Now you might ask, what does that have to do with science. Well what if we make the machine a metaphor for the scientific method! Welcome to metaphor machines, the project where we learn all about electricity, the…
Correlation and Causation. Two big words that both start with the letter ‘C’. But what do they really mean? In the second Scimatics project of grade 9, we’ll be conducting a survey, to see how correlation and causation are different. At the start of the project, we did a project mind map to see what…
Welcome to the first blog post of grade 9! We have just finished our first scimatics project all about exponents. Otherwise known as those little weird numbers that hitch hike on top of other numbers. To complete this project we had to do three main things; Learn about what exponent laws actually are, design a…
Comic Cells! Welcome to the last project of grade 8! This project was all about how cells and diseases interact with each other at a cellular level. To show off our learning we created a comic book that goes through some of the things that happen when a disease enters your body. As always you…
For this project, the goal was to create an object in a design software that was maximized for either Surface area or Volume. For example, you could create a solar panel for maximum surface area so it could absorb more sunlight, or create a water bottle for maximum volume so it can hold more water….
Chemistry Coding! As you might have been able to guess from the name, this project was all about atoms, matter and coding with the driving question being “How can the behaviour of matter be explained by the Kinetic Molecular theory and Atomic theory”. The final product of this project was a Scratch coded game or…
Hello, and welcome back to the final project of quarter 2 scimatics. This project was all about two main concepts, the Pythagorean Theorem, and the law of reflection. The project also aimed to teach us more about the scientific method and light in general. The driving question for this project was “How can we test…
Hello and welcome back to my blog. Right now winter break is right around the corner however, in the meantime, we just finished another project called Tectonic Chances. The driving question for this project was “How are thematic and mathematical elements used in game design.” Now pretty much every game has thematic and mathematical elements….